in the spring of 2016 for a national title. Through my experience as a UNA cheerleader, I believe that college cheerleading should be considered a sport because of the time put into the sport, the work put into getting better, and how both males and females can be cheerleaders. College Cheerleading should be considered a sport because of the
Do you ever wonder how cheerleading started? I know I have cheerleading was originated in the United States in the late 1700’s. Professional cheerleaders have high visibility at sporting events that are aired on national television. It began with football that started in the 1800’s. Each college’s clubs sat together at games and competed against one another for attention and support. Their songs and rhymes were yells and cheers. Boys were more interested in cheer than girls back then.
Have you ever thought about trying out for the cheer team? Well, you should because cheerleading helps you in many ways. Cheerleading helps you be more flexible and fit. It also helps you focus better at school and it makes you have more self-esteem. You should try out for the cheerleading team, no matter how nerve racking it is. Cheerleading helps you be very flexible. When you join the cheer team, you have to stretch and condition everyday, if you want to be good. This isn’t always fun, but is
Throughout high school I had always considered myself to be a people person. Though there were some people that I had differences with I could almost always overcome those grudges. I made the varsity cheerleading squad as a freshman which was a great accomplishment, I was used to the cheerleaders that were on the team my first year and was not quite ready for the change coming my way. It was a rude awakening when I saw the extremely diverse group of opinionated girls chosen my junior year of cheer
Katie Esteves Ms. Sharpe English IV 24 March 2016 Cheerleading: The Debate On Whether Cheerleading Is A Sport Or Not An Annotated Bibliography Clark, Adam. "Cheerleading Should Be a Sport in New Jersey, Lawmakers Say." NJ.com. NJ Advance Media, 7 May 2015. Web. 24 Mar. 2016. Adam tells a story about the action New Jersey’s State Senate made and their reasoning. New Jersey lawmakers signed off a bill that would make cheerleading an interscholastic sport. The bill has been designated to establish
I gripped both sets of shaking hands next to me, and quickly interlocked fingers. The musty, familiar scent of the blue mats beneath me penetrated my nose. The crowd full of family and cheerleading enthusiasts fell silent as the announcer picked up his microphone. I shut my eyes a little closer and bent down even further into the mat. This was the moment I had been working for for over five months; the moment I’d envisioned in my head was here. In my mind, the announcer, sensing the anticipation
word Cheerleader. What do you think? Do you think cheerleading is a sport? Or do you think cheerleading consist of loud, obnoxious girls that stand around in little shirts, screaming as loud as they can about anything and every thing. According to The New york Time, research has shown cheerleading being one of the fastest growing girls sport, yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is a sport. In addition, people need to realize cheerleading is a sport. In America, we define a sport being
Cheerleading was my first extracurricular activity as a child. I participated in Pop Warner Cheerleading. I cheered for six years and it was a hard six years for me. Growing up I was not one to talk to people unless I was spoken too, I was really shy and not used to having to speak in front of a crowd of people. The first game was extremely hard for me, because there was a crowd full of people yelling. They were yelling out their kids name so they would know that their parents came to see them play
Cheerleading: Not a Sport “The New York Times states that cheerleading is the fastest growing girls’ sport, yet more than half of Americans do not believe it is a sport.“says Teen Ink. It has always been called a sport by cheerleaders themselves, but what about the rest of us? I agree that cheerleading is NOT a sport because it does not meet the standard of what Americans call a sport. Cheerleading cannot be a sport because they are focused on self beauty, there's no competition and they
are raw statistics that cheerleading accounts for two-thirds of all catastrophic injuries among female high school athletes. Honestly, cheerleading isn’t as safe as you might think, which was one of the reasons New York State - following 34 other states and Washington D.C. - reclassified it as an official school sport last month.”(Hickey, Walt) Competitive Cheerleading is a sport. Many people were upset about this accusation because in their minds they believe cheerleading isn’t a sport. These people