14 Results for tag: cheerleading
For those of you who don't think competitive cheer is a sport, take a look at this video report on the squad at the University of Maryland.
Can somebody send this to the Women's Sports Foundation?
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The following is an official statement from Eric Pearson, Chairman of the College Sports Council on yesterday's decision by a federal court in Connecticut that determined that competitive cheer cannot be considered a varsity sport under Title IX:
"Varsity status for competitive cheer is all about safety.
The ruling by the judge in the Quinnipiac case is ...
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Over at Minding the Campus, Cathy Young has put together some thoughts on the case at Quinnipiac University that has sparked a national debate on the merits of competitive cheer.
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From the outside looking in, news that a high school in South Dakota was eliminating their girls gymnastics team in order to add competitive cheer wouldn't seem like a significant story. But then, when you look a little closer, you can see how the tyranny of strict proportionality can wind up hurting a small roster sport:
Adding competitive cheer and ...
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