- Apr 9, 2011
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I think poorly trained and educated coaches pushing their teams to throw more difficult tumbling skills and stunts before they are mentally and physically ready are to blame for a LARGE number of the injuries. Also, not all high schools have mats or the funding to provide mats for its cheerleaders.Our state is somewhat "overseen" by a group. Unfortunately, this group and the schools will back an inexperienced coach 100%. High school cheer is VERY dangerous as is now. As a parent of a child on a high school cheer competition team I strongly feel this sport needs to be gone from high school, as HS competition cheer is ran now. I also have NEVER in 7 years of all star cheer have seen the number of injuries as I had in ONE year of high school cheer.
There are ways to fix this but in my personal experience, schools will NEVER change a thing. Schools don't see a problem. There is no problem, coach said so.