Argumentative Essay: Is Cheerleading A Sport?

Every cheerleader gets fired up when someone sparks the “Is cheerleading a sport?” debate. According to Webster’s Dictionary, a sport is defined as a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other. The amount of intense training that cheerleaders do is crazy. Cheerleaders get injured, sometimes it is serious then other times it’s not. Cheerleaders also get offered scholarships and many other opportunities. Cheerleading offers many scholarships for college cheer, one might enter an all-star team, or they may even become a coach/choreographer. Cheerleading is in the top five most dangerous sports in the world, yes. A sport. It’s proven to be in the top five dangerous, and yet people still have the gut to say that it is not a sport. Here’s to the people who say cheerleading isn’t a sport and that cheerleaders aren’t athletes. Cheerleaders train so much, cheerleaders do not give up their time to practice for nothing. We practice just as much as other sports do, every day of the week for 2+ hours. We practice our jumps, tumbling, stunts, and transitions. We jump high without a trampoline,
We have 2.5 minutes on the floor and 500-1000 people in the crowd every time we go on that floor. There are eight judges and 2.5 minutes of horrendous physical activity and we make it look easy. Perfection doesn’t exist, but here we go reaching for it anyways. We hit or miss. Toes weren’t pointed? Deduction. Didn’t stick our tumbling? Deduction. Stunt didn’t hit? Deduction. Everyone thinks we’re the prissy girls who always have to have perfect hair and makeup. They are wrong. At practice we have messy buns and running makeup. Competitions? We sweat until we absolutely have to get ready. Yes, the hair and makeup is fun but ultimately it’s to unite us as a team, to be uniformed, to have the same