For now, cheerleading is not a sport in Nevada high schools. This may change when the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association revisits the issue in a year. Earlier this month the NIAA, which has ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...

While fans are used to seeing cheerleaders dancing and performing at various sporting events around the country, is what the cheerleaders are doing themselves considered a sport? It's a mixed debate ...

For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man. Members of the Valley Elite All Stars in Allentown, Pa., which is sending an elite team to Varsity Spirit events to ...

September is National Cheerleader Month, honoring the athletes who are tied to gameday, and an official we spoke to discussed more about the recent growth of the sport. In fall, weekends become ...

HARTFORD, Conn. • A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a sport by schools looking for ways to meet gender-equity requirements. The issue is part of a lawsuit ...

Jeff Webb is known as the "founder of modern cheerleading" for his role in turning it into a competitive sport. He died ...

COLONIE — Cheerleading is about more than pom-poms and screaming and the fact that it is now recognized as an official sport in New York state athletics was more than evident in town last week. The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators (OASSA) and the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) announced Thursday afternoon the establishment of a new ...

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