How is cheerleading a sport? Cheerleaders are commonly seen on the sidelines at football and basketball games supporting their teams. Fans see them as other poeple supporting their team. Cheerleading is a sport becaues it envalys physcail excase like actrowbatics and stunts. very competive and frestighting just like any other sport. So just like a sport like basketbal‚ football‚ and even baseball you have to wear your team uniforms so with cheer if they didn’t wear them how would you know who’s team
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Cheerleading is a predominantly American activity that began with all male participants. The first documented cheer was yelled by the students in the stands at Princeton University football games in the late nineteenth century. Princeton football officials named three students and the cheer leaders to lead the crowd in specially designated cheering sections at the football games. A few years later‚ at the University of Minnesota‚ a student named Johnny Campbell led the crowd in a special cheer at
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Competitive cheerleading has never been called a sport according to the government. There has been an ongoing debate as to if cheerleading fits the definition of a sport which is “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature” (Dictionary.com n.d.). By that definition you could interpret it to mean cheerleading is a sport‚ but there is much more to being a sport than meeting a definition. Competitive cheerleading does require specialized training‚ extensive
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Hailey Lower March‚ 20th‚ 2013 Ap World History Mr. Glueck Cheerleading traces its roots to the late 19th century‚ when crowds began to chant and yell to encourage their team. Credit for the first organized cheer is often given to a University of Minnesota student named Johnny Campbell‚ who got the Gopher faithful to shout‚ "Rah‚ rah‚ rah! Sku-u-mar‚ Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity‚ Minn-e-so-ta!" during a losing effort in the 1898 season
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conversation about how cheerleading isn’t a sport or shouldn’t be considered one. Cheerleading is the fastest growing girls sport‚ yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is a sport. In addition‚ they fail to distinguish between sideline cheerleaders and competitive ones. A real cheerleader doesn’t stand on the side; they are performing‚ working hard to be the best of the best. You have to be physically and mentally prepared to take on competitive cheer. Cheerleading should be a sport because
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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
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Many have started to gain the thought that cheerleading is an inappropriate activity for children and teenagers to participate in. Parents are worried that schools are beginning to be a little too lenient with letting their children dress in “skimpy” uniforms and performing inappropriate routines. There is no evidence proving that cheerleading is making people’s children participate in sexual activities but many people think otherwise. Schools need to stop young students from performing
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English 3 AP 7 January 2017 What comes to mind when you hear the word cheerleading? Did you know there are two different types of cheerleading? People generally think of girls waving poms‚ girls obnoxiously chanting and girls in short skirts. Some of those factors may be true‚ but people do not realize there are two types of cheerleading. All-Star (competitive) and high school cheerleading are similar in nature‚ but All-Star cheerleading is a much more demanding. There are many similarities and differences
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sweat. Imagine these people having to stay fit and workout as much as they can so they can perfect their routines. This is a group of hardworking individuals putting their best effort into what they do. This is a cheerleading squad. Most people do not consider cheerleaders athletes. Cheerleading should be considered a sport because cheer squads can compete and they are required to maintain a healthy lifestyle. To begin‚ cheerleaders have competitions and can win trophies and medals. Competitive cheer
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Most people say cheerleading is not a sport‚ but to me it is. It all began when I was four years old and my mom signed me up to cheer for the Harrisburg Packers. I was nervous at first‚ but then it turned out to be a lot of fun. Everyone on the team was tall except for me and one other girl. Her name was Tatum. The first thing I thought was that I was going to get picked on by all the other girls because I was so little and shy‚ but it turned out to be totally different. As the years progressed
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