High School Does High School Cheer Have More Regulations Then All-star?

At the Title IX level, cheer is not a sport. NCATA is trying to change that at the college level, and STUNT is varsity's attempt (some allege it is a fake attempt) both looking at gaining NCAA recognition as an "emerging sport" and later as a full "sport". Most states adopt NFHS rules for their high school teams, but I do not believe that all do. For college competition squads, I'm not sure what rules they follow.

All-star is regulated by the company producing the individual event that the teams attend. The majority of companies choose to adopt USASF safety and level rules, but unless a company is affiliated with USASF, they are not obligated to adopt any of those rules. Some other (normally smaller) all star competition companies adopt NFHS spirit rules.

There are awesome JV HS squads that would beat the pants off a poorly run allstar team, there are awesome all star teams that would beat the pants off a poorly run varsity HS competition squad. Those examples take it to the extremes. Taking it to a truly regulated sport: there are high school gymnasts that can beat club gymnasts of the same level and vice versa. Making a blanket statement that x way of doing things makes for better athletes is wrong regardless of which way the finger is pointed.

cheermominar said:

I was talking to my dad during NCA comp. about how All-Star cheer doesn't have any true regulations are standards. I don't think it's considered a sport is it? But he went on to say he believes cheer is a sport for a college/school. He is a retired teacher so he may or may not know what he is talking about. Oh, someone else that cp does All-Star cheer with, their parent dons't consider High School cheerleaders quite the athlthes has All-Star. I commented back, I think it depends on the school if they are strictly sideline or if they all compete Varsity.

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As far as I know ALL HS teams including cheerleading must follow some regulations be it state regulations or as most of them follow NFHS regulations. With all-star some/many follow USASF regulations; however as mentioned above, these are events ran by an Event Promoter and they can choose to follow whatever regulations the desire. so in sort to answer your question, I would have to say HS is more regulated....but know that neither are considered a sport.....hope you find this information helpful.

Cheer leading is a sport in Illinois and several other states, therefore we have to follow IHSA rules, ICCA rules, and NFHS rules. Plus any additional rules a certain competition may have.

All sports have regulations, whether they are Title IX recognized or not. All star in our state has more regulations than High School. In our state the high schools only are guided by the AACCA and NFHS rules, but coaches are not credentialed in any way, they just take a simple test and get to coach. Nobody monitors them. We have a school that continues to perform skills on illegal surfaces, but they keep going . You don't get away with that in All-star.