Persuasive Essay: Is Cheerleading A Sport?

Cheerleading, a Sport or Not

Not long ago, a debatable question has been pondered by many to decide whether or not cheerleading is a sport. After having a self-debate, I have made the decision that I personally do not believe that cheerleading should be considered a sport considering knowing the way cheerleading is ran and how different it is from any other well-known sport. Cheerleading started out back in the 1800’s and still is popular today. Cheerleading began as an all-male activity at college football games in the 1800’s. In the 1920’s cheerleading started to become more of a woman’s sport It quickly became a full-on female sport leaving the males find a new activity to make their own. It wasn’t until the 1980’s to 1990’s when cheerleading started involving more stunts and tumbling which meant, cheerleading became a highly dangerous activity. Now, I’d consider it to be a sport in the bigger areas where cheerleaders attend competitions against other squads to win. However, when there is cheerleading in a small town such as mine,

The University of Maryland added cheerleading as a varsity sport in 2003 and hoped that many other Universities would follow in their lead. With the final outcome, it only turned out that so far, five have succeeded in following. Furthermore, NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) doesn’t think that cheerleading is a sport. With the whole cheerleading issue rambling, the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t count it towards the law of Title X (the federal equality of both female and male). It has came to the point where we are questioning if Title X is no longer useful. Universities have been viewing that the number of girl’s participation is not as high as men’s anymore, so the Title X isn’t needed anymore to make sure there is an equal opportunity for female and male.