Being a cheerleader you are a member of a group or squad that do organized cheering and chants in support of a sports team. I cheered from the time I was in the 5k until the end of my ninth grade year. Cheering was a big part of my life then I realized that it was not good for me to continue with the group. With cheer leading being a big part of my life there were reasons why it was very important to me, but why did I quit, and did I make the right choice? Being a little kid and always looking up
cheerleading a sport? Many people think it is but many people don’t. This has been a rough debate in the sports industry. You see cheerleaders at basketball and football games but what if there were cheerleading games. For instance, two cheerleading squads, cheering off to see who is going to win. How would one squad win? They wouldn’t if it wasn’t a sport and there would also be no cheerleading games. I believe cheerleading shouldn’t be a sport. It doesn’t have competition as its main goal unlike many other
Cheering is a physical activity where groups perform routines while yelling cheers. (Harmon) Cheerleading is a popular activity for many schools and universities. (Harmon) This activity can be traced all the way back to the 19th century. (Harmon) At the first intercollegiate football game in 1869, between Princeton and Rutgers, students yelled and chanted cheers. (Harmon) In 1898, Johnny Campbell started cheering at games, and became the first unofficial cheerleader. (Harmon) Many people were inspired
Football Cheer and Basketball Cheer The crowd is screaming, sweat is dripping, and the cheerleaders are cheering. All of which happen at both football and basketball games. The past four years I have been a cheerleader for both sports. There are many differences between football and basketball cheer. As a cheerleader, stunting is a big part of what happens at sporting events. At a football game we are only allowed to perform two stunts. Whereas in basketball, we have the ability to do six stunts
Each year, more colleges are offering college scholarships to guys who are good at cheering, providing them with a decent chance of landing a college scholarship and going off to college (Patrick). Many guys believe that cheering is a girls sport, but I’m here today to inform you about all-star competitive cheering and what is involved in putting together a competitive routine, and at the end I my speech I hope you will be able to see why many guys can benefit from cheerleading. I personally have
What is Cheerleading? For centuries, spectators have cheered for people playing sports. Still, cheerleading did not officially being until 1898. Johnny Campbell, a student at the University of Minnesota, led the crowd at the football game in a famous cheer. He yelled," Rah, Rah, Rah! Shu-u-mar, Hoo-Rah! Hoo- Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tahh!" This cheer is still used, Thoes who use it today use the name of their team or school. Cheerleading is more than leading crowds in cheers. Cheerleaders
Cijae Snodgrass 5th Hour Cheertastrophe When you are in front of a crowd of fans and they are all cheering you on it is the best feeling in the world. Whether you are winning or losing the excitement of the fans can keep our spirits high. Cheerleaders are the people who keep the crowd cheering and keep the team motivated. Their amazing stunting and routines get the crowd on their feet and cheering their team on. Cheerleading should not be regulated because of dangerous stunting or even so called
another team than cheerleading is just an activity however when you get into competitive cheerleading and All-Star Cheerleading there is no way you cannot call it a sport. So while cheerleaders are seaming, shouting, high flying on the sidelines cheering motivating the audience and player themselves at that moment they are not being a sport. However once they get on
When I was seven, I was a cheerleader and my mom was my coach. Now I am thirteen and I still cheer, but instead for football I cheer competitively. The past two years I have been on the Kaneland Competitive squad and all two years our goal was to make it to the second day of the State. State is the final competition of the season, where you must qualify to participate. At state, all the qualified teams have a big competition and the top three go on to the next day. Last year was the closest we
Why should competitive cheerleading be legalized as a sport? Do you consider competitive cheerleading a sport? I do for many reasons, but the US court does not. Quinnipiac University volleyball players and coach sued the school for outing the volleyball team, and replacing it with a competitive cheerleading program. The volleyball team claimed the schools action violated Title IX with a federal judge agreeing because cheerleading isn’t a sport. Appeals court said “We do not foreclose the possibility
cheerleader gets sparked up when people start that “Is cheerleading a sport” debate. Cheerleading started as a male endeavor in 1898, when a University of Minnesota football fan led the crowd in verse in support of their team. From there, it went to fan cheering fans at game. It made the people that were playing, play and want to win. Cheerleading is an athletic sport, a way to learn to play many roles, and cheerleaders train hard. Cheerleading is an athletic sport. Lots of people think Cheerleading
On weekends we have fundraisers and during the week we have practice. You have to shape your schedule around cheer, especially in the summer. During football season you constantly are practicing, cheering at games, and doing things for football. When you miss practice, are going to be late, or leave early you have to fill out a permission slip and sign an oath. It can also be dangerous, especially for me as a flier. Many times during practice and
3 competitions a year. Finally, I believe that cheerleading is not a sport is because when you go to a football game or basketball game, you’ll see the cheerleaders on the sideline cheering their team on. They will have a bunch of makeup on, try and make their hair look perfect, and wear short skirts while cheering the for the actual sport being played. They aren’t getting all dressed up to compete against anyone or try to win anything but rather to feel good and look good. I think in sports, that
and would love the opportunity to cheer for OU in all aspects. The SOONER M.A.G.I.C values perfectly exemplify some of the qualities I strive to live by. Cheering for the University of Oklahoma would truly be a dream come true. I want to be a member of the OU Cheer Program for many reasons, including growing as an athlete and person. Cheering at Owasso for the last four years has given me many challenges that I enjoyed overcoming. From the long practices, to the multitude of events we go to, it
the “Superbowl”. Along with the football program is a cheerleading program. Girls third through sixth grade sign up every year to cheer for the four quarters of every football game, along with doing a routine to entertain fans at halftime. I began cheering for this program in the third grade. I remember the pride I felt while wearing my Cardinal uniform (that was five years old, smelled bad, and was three sizes too big for me.) Each year I worked hard to
is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another for entertainment, and cheerleading follows these guidelines. There are a three different types of cheerleading. The first one is sideline cheering, which is like high school cheer. The second one is competition and the last one is college cheer. A sport says that you must physically exert yourself. In cheer, especially competitive, you work on routines a hundred times to make them
Some people say cheer is not a sport. But other people say it totally is. According to Varisty’s article, cheer specifies as all the definitions of a sport. It’s half on half if is cheer is a sport or not. Sideline cheering does not specify as a sport but competition does. Cheerleaders train just as hard as any other sport..maybe even harder. Practice goes for hours, even if you're just getting ready for a basketball game. Cheerleaders also lift weights for upper body strength to lift up our team
On day two of retreat, my group and I went on the high roped course, which I was really excited for. There were four different courses you could do, however with our big group and long lines, I only had time to do 2 of them. The first one I did was called the Leap of Faith. This is because in the course you climb up a tree using a ladder and some stakes already placed in the tree to get up to a platform about 30 feet above ground. From there, still attached to the harness, you jump out from the platform
I have been cheering for five years now. I can not remember the times when I was not a cheerleader, it is hard to imagine myself doing anything other than cheer or simply not cheering at all. I fell in love with the sport and within time, my passion towards it grew even more. Cheerleading consumed my life, it was my only focus. I was fortunate enough to grow up with coaches that pushed me to reach limits I did not even know I had, as well as teammates whom I shared the same passion towards the sport
Some people think that cheer is just some kind of after-school activity that people do when they are bored but it is way more than just that. Cheer is not just screaming little chants or cheering for a specific team. Cheer is a complex sport that takes a lot of skill and commitment to do. Athletes train for months before they go on stage and perform their 2:30-minute routine with tumbling and stunts. Cheerleading has a long history and the debates and differences between All-Star and School Cheer