Essays about Cheerleading

The article I chose for this critique is “Active Bodies/ Active Brains: The Relationship Between Physical Engagement and Children’s Brain Development” by Deborah Stevens-Smith. This author advocates for how movement enhances learning and how physical engagement aids development of active bodies and active brains. Overall, this article explores how physical engagement and development of mind-body…

Extra-curricular activities, such as sports, have provided youth with opportunities to grow as individuals and discover their identity. Each sport molds you into a different status that shapes your everyday activities and values. Cheerleading, specifically, is one of the most popular sports for females. While the number of males is nowhere near equal to the…

Football game cheerleaders, Bring It On movies, pom-poms, to name a few aspects of the sport. But what most people don’t realize is that there’s another world of cheerleading that doesn’t involve any of those things. It’s called all-star cheerleading. It demands an immense level of skill, endurance, and dedication. The sport has an interesting…

Despite its reputation as a simple and frivolous activity, cheerleading is a very rigorous sport. Most people don’t realize the work that goes into cheerleading. There is a lot more effort involved than just going to the games and cheering. Before one can be on a cheerleading squad they must go through tryouts. There are…

What comes to mind when you hear “sports”, football, wrestling, baseball, and basketball? Like many our minds go straight to these well-known sports; but what about cheerleading? Cheerleading is dated back to 1898 and it over 100 years old. About 80% of schools in the United States have cheerleading squads these days. Cheerleaders are well…

The cheerleaders at your school have petitioned to have cheerleading listed as one of the school’s sports teams. Is cheerleading a “sport?” Whether or not cheerleading is a sport is a matter of context, and in this case, it would not be a sport. I must apologize to many of the attractive, energetic women whom…

Duncan Simpson and Lauren P. Elberty are the investigators in this study. Simpson is with the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida as the Head of Mental Conditioning. Elberty is with the University of Miami as a master’s student focusing on Mental Health Counseling. The study used by Simpson and Elberty is an interpretive study. The…

Is cheerleading a sport? The Women’s Sports Foundation defines a sport as a physical activity that involves propelling a mass through space or overcoming the resistance of mass (Lanchaire 1). The definition also includes competition, which is governed by rules that explicitly define the time, space, and purpose of the contest and the conditions under…

How would you describe your highschool sports experience? I describe mines as all the way sexus. In every sport at McClymonds high school the boys teams are treated way better than the female teams. I will specifically be targeting the cheer team and the football team.There are many cheerleading disparities. In the past cheerleaders has…

It is not hard to imagine the danger associated with cheerleading on every level. The flips and tricks performed by a single person alone are dangerous enough, but there are several other components from multiple people to the environment that also must be taken into consideration. Statistically, cheerleading is the most dangerous and risky sport…