competitive cheerleading a sport? The lights? Blinding. Your heart? Beating. Your hands? Trembling. “You may now take the matt.” This is what you’ve worked your butt off for. Your team made it to worlds, one of the most important competitive cheer competitions- well in the world! As a cheerleader, you’re used to people thinking cheer is easy, and there was no work involved. You’ve always considered cheer a sport, I mean it fit the requirements to be one too. Dictionary.com defines a sport as "an athletic
never getting the recognition that cheerleading is a sport is highly frustrating. Just as any other sport, girls and guys alike work hard every day to showcase their talents and to know that the sport isn’t considered an actual “sport” is highly controversial. The NCAA states, “In order for a sport to be considered for the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women list, 20 or more varsity teams and/or competitive club teams must currently exist on college campuses and the sport organization must submit a detailed
The word sport is defined as being “An athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. a ” (Dictionary.com). Many people from all over the world have voiced their opinions on the controversial subjects.Most people do not think of cheerleading fits into the exact definition of being a sport. Whether or not cheerleading is a sport has become a national debate among parents
In the essay “Sis! Boom! Bah! Humbug!” by Rick Reilly he analyzes the sport of cheerleading and tells us why he does not care for the sport. His essay starts off stating “ Every Friday night on America’s high school football fields it’s the same old story. Broken bones. Senseless Violence. Clashing egos. “ I think that Reilly has a good opening sentence because right away it grasps the readers attention because it is so strongly worded. It was also good that he starts his first paragraph off with
Prof. Milne Eng 101-25 29 February 2012 Respect Athletic Sports have come a long way since basketball was played with milk crates and flat balls in the alleys of the poor and rich alike. One may ask, why should I be concerned with the senseless sweating and hours of practice of those who enjoy sports? The answer is one that will open your eyes to the fulfillment sports can bring whether recreational or competitive. Sport activities offer a variety of lifelong qualities and provide those