Cheerleading

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…

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…

The purpose of this research is to further expand upon the short article Cheerleading: Is It A Sport that is found in the textbook Sociology of North American Sport by Sage and Eitzen. The article argues that some cheerleading programs consist of complex physical skills that are required for competitions and thus should be granted…