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…

Introduction As James Brown states, “This is a man’s world . . . but it would be nothing without a woman. . .” and although this may be true in the real world, in the world of sports it is quite the opposite (Brown 1966). If someone was asked to name three male professional athletes,…

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…

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…

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…