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I was on the show and saw the whole segment be filmed. Both injured cheerleaders' stories are compelling and deserve more respect than being called "incidents". When will cheerleading stop treating injured athletes like outliers? One is a quadriplegic and the other has brain damage. Both are...

It's egregious. Simply gross negligence and only by luck no one was catastrophically hurt.

Join us on Twitter today at 2 pm EST to discuss all the latest in concussions in cheer. Our hosting panel included founder of PinkConcussions, D1 Acro &Tumbling coach MaryAnn Powers, NueroPsychologist Mark Herceg, Certified Athletic Trainer Mike Hopper, Author/Physicist/martial artist Jason...

In this hour long segment on ESPN radio about child rights in sports I discuss cheerleaders doing gymnastics at length.

I agree! My brother is a Commander in the US Navy, flies FA-18s and trains FA-18 pilots to land on an air craft carrier while it moves at night. My nephew, his youngest son is named after his friend who died flying Navy jets. We have talked for 100s of hours about cheerleaders who do gymnastics...

Dance teams, marching bands, bowling team or chess club if you are doing gymnastics without the training, supervision, progressions, rules of gymnastics you are increasing the inherent risk. So yes when the hip hop dance team copies a move out of "White Chicks" and forgets it is gymnastics it is...

Second highest revenue earner at Alabama is cheerleading, only second to football. From cheer camp income I suspect.

I have not found one. Does anyone else know of one?

Exactly! Sideline cheer isn't going anywhere, it's a part of American culture. Giving new opportunities for females athletes will only grow the industry.

Just how relevant the conversation was to all sports and that contact between children in the name of sport is a hot topic right now.

Last sporting events I went to were the Superbowl and LA Lakers games. No acrobatics or tumbling by the cheerleaders and lots of yelling from the crowd.

wasn't an argument

Most important concept for cheerleaders, coaches, cheer parents, gym owners ect to understand about AMA and AAP statements. They are not settling the "bar room" argument whether cheerleading is a sport. The doctors/medical experts(AMA most respected doctor org in US) are saying that the 'skills'...

You do realize that the sports world is discussing this same issue about safety and contact for kids. Checking is being taken out of the game for kids and most experts say no tackle before 14 years old in football.

A few things that may be helpful: Bangkok University is a member of the Thai Cheerleading Association which is NOT the national organization recognized by the Thailand federal government as the 'official' governing body of cheer as a sport. Thailand Federation of Cheerleading is the governing...

I don't know if mad is the right word to describe what happened to me when I said it to the Associated Press, but saying does have it's consequences. Competing plans proposed to make competitive cheerleading an NCAA sport - ESPN "Kimberly Archie, who heads the National Cheer Safety...

The model accepted by Sport Accord is more like UCA. It must have 40 seconds in a row of cheers with poms and signs, NO dancing allowed, some restrictions on acro release moves and tumbling as per FIG agreement. They are not allowed to do partner stunts outside of the 2 1/2 minute routine so...

In true capitalism the interests of the consumer drives the market. If a lot athletes want to do the co-ed version, lots of universities want to fund it and lots of people want to buy tickets to watch or pay to go to camps ran by the program than why not all female and co-ed? Perhaps most male...

Victory for safety in my book. Great opportunity for more female athletes to receive the varsity sport experience in college.

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