There is a big difference between school cheer and competitive cheer. School cheer should not necessarily be called a sport. Sports teams exist to compete, not to entertain or perform while supporting another group that is competing. Cheer was created to get the crowd excited and wound up. One of the requirements of a sport is to compete against an opponent, not cheer your team on and for sure not support you opponent. Even though cheerleaders have after-school practices and even participate in cheering for a team, to be qualified as a sport you must know the real definition of a…
While working on this project I had a very difficult time coming up with a topic and writing the rough draft without using research. After changing my topic about three times, I decided to go with, should cheerleading be considered a sport. I’ve done cheerleading for five years now and every time I tell people that I cheer their response is cheerleading is not a sport. The point of this no research paper is to inform people the different reasons why cheerleading is a sport. While writing this paper I had some difficulties throughout the process of this paper.…
I. “Until the majority of the squads move competing to the forefront and cheering at games to be a secondary function, there is little hope cheerleading will be officially considered a sport.” Says About.com…
In my opinion I think that Cheerleading should be a competitive sport because cheerleaders work as hard as all other sport players do. For example cheerleaders show muscle, athleticism and agility when practicing and cheering at games. Cheerleaders show muscle because they lift other people they throw and stack people on top of other people to make a pyramid. They show Agility because when doing cheers they have to make sharp and quick movements with their hands and their feet. I don’t think that it’s fair that cheerleading isn’t a competitive sport because it doesn’t involve a ball. That is why I think that cheerleading is just as much as a sport than any other…
By definition, cheerleading is a sport involving the performance of organized cheering, chanting, and dancing in support of a sports team at games. To me cheerleading isn’t just a sport, it’s a lifestyle. It takes more than just cheering on the football team during Friday night games. It is a lot of hard work and dedication. When competition season starts, my life revolves around cheer.…
When a person thinks of the word ‘sport’ their minds go to the big three: baseball, basketball, and football. Webster’s dictionary defines a sport as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” Most activities are either a sport or they are not. It’s simple, but there is one that tends to confuse people, cheerleading. People cannot agree on whether cheerleading takes on the task of being a sport. A reason some people may not know might be a result of them not understanding cheer.…
The reputation of partaking in the sport is further magnified because cheerleading is in a category of activities that many people would not even label cheerleading as a sport. As a college cheerleader, I hear other men’s opinions and the school’s athletic department constantly express how cheerleading isn’t an actual sport. The perception that cheerleading is far from being a "real" sport implies that men must be playing the appropriate male qualified sports, such as football or other aggressive contact sports. This is said as a way for boys to demonstrate their level of masculinity (Suitor and Reavis). Such remarks provide an appalling outlook on the significance of participating in a "real" sporting activity in comparison to a feminine sport.…
A sport is defined as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature” (Dictionary.com). Someone can’t roll out of bed and be an amazing cheerleader. Cheerleading is an activity that takes massive amounts of skill and physical prowess, but on July 22nd of 2010 Connecticut Judge Stefan R. Underhill ruled competitive cheerleading as not being a sport. Considering the physical demand of the activity, the court system should reconsider competitive cheerleading as a sport.…
After countless games, practices, and competitions, nothing quite compares to standing on the eight panel mat in front of thousands of unfamiliar faces or a high school football game on Friday night. It is a unique atmosphere where there is an air of utter togetherness and positive energy that I have never experienced anywhere else during my four years of cheering. Although it is the most intense, stressful, and time-consuming activity I have participated in, cheerleading means the world to me. Needless to say, cheerleading has had a tremendous impact on my life and I have learned valuable life lessons from this amazing sport.…
Cheerleading is typically, in the United States, a year round competitive sport that includes at least three sports seasons. The typical sport starts beginning of summer with the usual stunting camp, then fall, winter, and spring. Sometimes though it isn’t just for four years of high school and then it is over. According to George GS (1990) most cheerleaders start at an early age and is estimated to include over a million participants between the ages of elementary school and professional cheerleaders for sports teams. As you can see not only is cheerleading a ten month sport but if a person decides to start at the age of five until the age of twenty-five then they will have done cheer for two hundred months out of their cheerleading careers. Out of this time these kids have also been in school which calls for studying, time with friends, and once they hit the age of sixteen or seventeen they are giving up some time of not working. Every year the school work is getting harder and it seems as if more and more homework just appears. Between the usual times of after practice and bed time…
They give comments and a scoring that goes from Poor(lowest) to Superior(highest). At the end of the night, they give awards for each category of judgment in every class(1A-5A) and announce the overall winner of the competition of the competition. Now if I'm correct this sounds like cheerleading a well-known sport across the nation , leaving me to wonder if cheerleading is considered a sport-- why isn't Marching Band. ?…
To determine whether or not cheerleading is a sport, we should first establish what a sport actually is. What is or isn’t a sport is a widely debated topic. A common dictionary definition of a sport is an athletic activity that requires physical talent. Also, sports…
When I asked Alexis, a cheerleader at Thornton High what her thoughts were on cheer being a sport, she said, “It bothers me when people say what I do isn’t a sport. I work out, I compete, I am a part of a team, I practice. I know we don’t actually play a game or throw a ball but that is the only thing that sets us apart from the sports. Cheerleading is as much of a sport as football is.” As I continued to speak with Alexis she informed me that a sports physical is required to participate. It made me question, if cheerleading isn’t a sport then why is a sports physical required to be on a high school cheer squad?…
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 I know. While other girls cheer for the cuteness, I cheer because cheerleading has become my passion for dance, for movement and for the choreography of cheering and its beauty. Rather than going through the motion like other cheerleaders, I feel as if I am the motion.…
"We don’t have to prove it is a sport." Said Land "O Lakes senior Hayley Jones, an All-American. "It is a sport. Work and skill are involved. It is not just a cheer team, it is performing and it includes dance and gymnastics." When people start to agree that cheerleading is a sport it makes cheerleaders happy and lets them know that they are heard and people have the cheer worlds back.…