- Jul 24, 2015
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I don't get why there is so much disrespect towards Cheerleading. Why is it that female Tennis players in high schools, and professional players can walk around in their mini skirts and throw ball around, but when cheerleaders are at competitions or coming from competitions and getting a bite to eat or something every one has a problem with it and some people even go as far as telling us that maybe we should "cover up" but don't say anything to the Tennis players. I mean even when I was in high school the Cheerleaders were only allowed to wear their shell tops while the lacrosse players and Tennis players got to break the dress code. Let's not get me started on the uniformity of the Volleyball team where the uniform is basically spanks and a top, but if its a Cheer skirt its a problem.
The main thing that makes me mad about this whole thing is the boy/girl rule for certain schools. Football players and Cheerleaders can't be on the same bus (for most districts in NC), but the boys and girls teams in other sports can ride the bus together. Makes no sense at all! Not to mention sometimes the football coaches would even go as far as telling some cheer teams that they can't be around the football players once the game has started (giving gifts at the locker room as a way of spirit etc) but the other teams can do it all the time.
How come something so simple as Bowling can get declared as a sport, but if Cheerleading gets declared as an official sport in a state 90% of that state goes haywire and say we don't do anything. I'm sorry, but I find it sad that so many sports get so much more respect then us and we get the short end of the stick every time. I mean people even make a porn mockery out of out of our sport. How is that even okay?
I mean I understand that many people don't know about All stars especially people who don't participate in Cheer period, but there is no excuse. Scholastic Cheer is something everyone knows about and there some pretty tough, competitive teams out there and they know it. How dare anyone say "we don't do anything" and its "not a sport" but excuse me can you do a full? or BHS to standing tuck, or a jump sequence to a standing tuck? I don't think so.
If I recall, we are the only sport aside from Acrobats and other circus like "Arts" that tosses up HUMAN BODIES in the air, create crazy stunts and pyramids, and not to mention the ridiculous amount of tumbling that we can do. I'm sure we've all seen the crazy tumble sequence Angel Rice had to do on Smoed last year. With some of the Tumbling skills a lot of Cheerleaders have they could possibly make it into the Olympics. I'm sorry, but there is no reason as to why we should not be declared a sport. I do realize that this is not true for many states in recent years, but there are many people who still disrespect Cheerleading and Cheerleaders for the simple fact that they Cheer, and they're some states that will never admit it to be a sport. Competition Cheer is a sport regardless of what people think. I'm just not quite understanding as to why some states do not want to qualify Cheer as a sport, and why some people refuse to admit that its probably one of the hardest things out there to do. Even some spirit teams are hard!
Sometimes I Just think its simply because we're not throwing a ball around and running after it. Newsflash people, running after a ball aren't the only things that can qualify you as a sport!
PS: I mean no disrespect at all to other sports out there I'm just trying to make a point about how we always get the short end of the stick. I'm so, so tired of it. I know I can never make people understand who don't want to understand, but the least they can do is respect it and not make a mockery out of It.
The main thing that makes me mad about this whole thing is the boy/girl rule for certain schools. Football players and Cheerleaders can't be on the same bus (for most districts in NC), but the boys and girls teams in other sports can ride the bus together. Makes no sense at all! Not to mention sometimes the football coaches would even go as far as telling some cheer teams that they can't be around the football players once the game has started (giving gifts at the locker room as a way of spirit etc) but the other teams can do it all the time.
How come something so simple as Bowling can get declared as a sport, but if Cheerleading gets declared as an official sport in a state 90% of that state goes haywire and say we don't do anything. I'm sorry, but I find it sad that so many sports get so much more respect then us and we get the short end of the stick every time. I mean people even make a porn mockery out of out of our sport. How is that even okay?
I mean I understand that many people don't know about All stars especially people who don't participate in Cheer period, but there is no excuse. Scholastic Cheer is something everyone knows about and there some pretty tough, competitive teams out there and they know it. How dare anyone say "we don't do anything" and its "not a sport" but excuse me can you do a full? or BHS to standing tuck, or a jump sequence to a standing tuck? I don't think so.
If I recall, we are the only sport aside from Acrobats and other circus like "Arts" that tosses up HUMAN BODIES in the air, create crazy stunts and pyramids, and not to mention the ridiculous amount of tumbling that we can do. I'm sure we've all seen the crazy tumble sequence Angel Rice had to do on Smoed last year. With some of the Tumbling skills a lot of Cheerleaders have they could possibly make it into the Olympics. I'm sorry, but there is no reason as to why we should not be declared a sport. I do realize that this is not true for many states in recent years, but there are many people who still disrespect Cheerleading and Cheerleaders for the simple fact that they Cheer, and they're some states that will never admit it to be a sport. Competition Cheer is a sport regardless of what people think. I'm just not quite understanding as to why some states do not want to qualify Cheer as a sport, and why some people refuse to admit that its probably one of the hardest things out there to do. Even some spirit teams are hard!
Sometimes I Just think its simply because we're not throwing a ball around and running after it. Newsflash people, running after a ball aren't the only things that can qualify you as a sport!
PS: I mean no disrespect at all to other sports out there I'm just trying to make a point about how we always get the short end of the stick. I'm so, so tired of it. I know I can never make people understand who don't want to understand, but the least they can do is respect it and not make a mockery out of It.