Cheerleading: Sport or Activity?

Many cheerleaders have often found themselves standing on the sidelines at a game

asking themselves: " Am I participating in a sport or is cheerleading just an activity." Some

people think cheerleading is just an after school activity, and that cheerleaders should encourage

dances. Some forty groups organize regional and national competitions. (Mitchell 66)

sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funds.(Vedantam 15) In fact,

competitions include powerful tumbling, breath-taking stunts and perfectly choreographed

Today, Cheerleading requires long, hard hours of commitment and entails important

tasks done by other athletes. For instance, basketball players run and jump so do cheerleaders.

to exercise sound judgement at all times. The impression they make must always be a good one.

football, the gracefulness and balance of gymnastics, and the performing aspects of figure

to master such skill. To us, cheerleading is not a game, like football or basketball, cheerleading

skating.( Nelson, par 2) Cheerleaders have to promote the need for unity among all aspects of the

hundred colleges now offer cheerleading scholarships.(Reilly 116) Fourteen states consider

The problem is that other athletes have no idea what it takes to be a cheerleader. We

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Approximate Word count = 1691
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)