Professor Urie Composition 2 7 March 2006 Cheerleading To be or Not To be A Sport? Cheerleading is a nationally recognized activity. Some people do not see it as a sport. But people who are in the so called activity consider themselves to be a athlete. Although schools and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) do not consider cheerleaders as athletes‚ but make them go by the same rules and safety guidelines of all other recognized sports. Cheerleaders have some of the same concepts
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Cheerleading is more than just wearing a short skirt‚ a stiff glittery bow and a shell crop top with your team’s name across the chest‚ but it’s a sport that involves the performance of organized‚ chanting and dancing in support of a sports team at games. In cheerleading‚ the choreography plays an important role through a sequence of movements of physical bodies. The choreography also refers to the design itself. Indeed‚ when it comes to the choreography of cheering‚ I thrive more than any cheerleader
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Cheerleading; a competitive sport based on organized routines of two and a half minutes‚ which include tumbling‚ dance‚ jumps‚ cheers‚ and stunting. No. Cheerleading does not consist of preppy girls from the movies who wear short skirts and who barely cheer at their highschool’s football games. It’s a lot more than that. Cheerleading consists of hardwork‚ detemination‚ athleticism‚ agility‚ and teamwork just like every other sport. Whether it’s throwing their flyer ten feet into the air without
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Cheer is my life. I have been doing it since i was 5 years old. It is true that cheerleading is a dangerous sport‚ trust me I would know. Here is some evidence to explain why cheerleading is a dangerous sport. Since I do cheer I know how it is to mess up and fall out a stunt‚ It can hurt but with professional cheerleaders they go up in the air high‚ when you fall out of that stunt you can get your back messed up and can even get a concussions. I think that cheerleading
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Cheerleading- Past Time or Sport? “While cheerleading evokes images of pompoms and pleated skirts‚ it has relied on increasingly athletic feats of grace and strength in recent years. As participants have perfected their basket tosses and pyramids‚ and mounted ambitious floor routines‚ a complicated and emotional question has arisen: has cheerleading become a true sport?” (Thomas). The simple answer is no‚ cheerleading is not a sport. According to the NCAA‚ cheerleading cannot be considered a sport
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The Controversial Sport of Cheerleading Nikki Johnson Cheerleading is just one of those activities‚ which cause many controversial upheavals. Whether it is the outfits they are wearing or the moves they are doing‚ there is always a problem it seems like. I mean just think about how many times you may have seen something you don’t like or agree with cheerleaders doing. Well I guess that’s just the wonderful world of cheerleading. Cheerleading can be a great sport to become involved in‚ but
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A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Cheer does all of that‚ but people this don’t think it is a sport. No one was really into cheer until 2012. Cheer became so popular‚ that boys started to join it’s a Co-Ed sport now. Cheerleading is a sport because they compete against other teams‚ they use skills and physical for everything‚ and they put a lot of effort and work into everything they do
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has been a lot of arguments about how cheerleading is not a sport. Some people would disagree that cheerleading is not a sport people think this because they have never done cheerleading before. Cheerleading is not easy it takes a lot out of work‚ people have to ready to work because people are not alone you have a team that counts on you. People think that it is easy because you are just in quote “Lifting people in the air.” it is not that easy. Cheerleading is not just going practice and working
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The unrecognized sport of Today One of the biggest controversies in sports today is the question of should cheerleading be considered a sport? While many critics would argue that cheerleading is not a sport at all as a competitive cheerleader I would disagree. The definition of a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. According to this definition critics are in fact wrong! Many have the stereotype
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Many consider cheerleading not a sport‚ but the New York Times states‚ one of the quickest growing sports for girls in our country today is cheerleading. Additionally‚ the New York Times doesn’t differentiate between sideline and competition cheerleaders. Sideline cheerleaders are on the sideline cheering on the football team and getting the crowd pumped for the football game. A competition cheerleader competes against other schools or teams in competitions that last two minutes and thirty seconds
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