66.7%of all female sports catastrophic injuries!For high school girls and college women,cheerleading is far more dangerous than any other sport,according to a new report that adds several previously unreported cases of serious injuries to a growing list.High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1%of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past25years,according to an annual report released Monday by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research.The new estimate is up from 55%in last years study.The researches say the true number of cheerleading injuries appears to be higher than they had previously thought.And these are not ankle sprains.The report counts fatal,disabling and serious injuries.The statistics are equally grim in college,where cheerleading accounted for 66.7%of all female sports catastrophic injuries,compared to the past estimate of 59.4%.The revised picture results from a new partnership between the sports injury center and the National Cheer Safety Foundation,a California-based not-for-profit body created to promote safety in cheerleading and collect data on injuries.The foundation provided the center with previously unreported data.The new data added 30 injury records from high schoolers and college students to the 112 in last years report.Catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased over the years,since the first report was published in1982. “A major factor in this increase has been the change in …
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I’d say cheerleading is a hobby.. not even a sport ^_^
Something does NOT become something else just cause you want it too! Sorry. Cheer as it is done in the USA is NOT a sport. It is an Athletic Entertainment Art activity. The performers are ATHLETIC no doubt. Sport has CONSISTENT logical comeptitive rules & org. Cheer does not. It a money grab biz.
Injury in cheer; NOT a measure of difficulty. It’s a measure OF BAD COACHING, BAD SYSTEM of developing cheer skills. Do a search of Acrobatic Gymnastics. BIGGER stunts… 100% lower injury rate
Half of the girls on my team needed a cast before the first comatition
what about the rest of the world?
My Flyer got her double down (: . but 1st time she did itt her head hit my eye and it was soo bad ! . i had a black eye for 2 weeks. ): .
@gymnast857 Although you aren’t yelling, you are “looking down at her” for getting angry over such a comment. I think both gymnastics and cheerleading are rather difficult but in different ways due to the fact that they don’t do the same things. However, gymnastics is not like cheerleading in the sense that they aren’t constantly being put down, having loads of stereotypes applied to them, and being insulted in many different ways so I think her reaction is slightly reasonable.
@ashllyyynnn165 I’m confused on your question?
@Cheer12324 how about you stop yelling at everyone and just let everyone express their opinion thats what comment boxes are for (;
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Cheerleaders just doesn’t seem to realize that no amount of training, athleticism and stunts will be sufficent to be sactionated sport without their competition and origination mess is being sorted out.Maybe cheerleaders is so fanatical in their sport claims because they are a bit ashamed over what they are and what they do? Maybe they even realize that the closest they will come for many years to being in a sport is by waiving with their pom poms, and yelling “GO TEAM”?
@gymnast857 They didnt say that was the ONLY reason sweetie 😉
@wwwabcorg Yes falling out of a tree is dangerous but its not a sport. Yes gymnastics is a sport. NO Cheerleading is most defiantly not waving pom poms around jumping and giggling. YES ALL-STAR cheerleaders work harder than football players.
You cant say that because you’ve never tried cheerleading. It is intense. You are incredibly stupid to judge someone like that.
@TheLevel4gymnast And gymnastics cant chuck girls 30-40 feet in the air while hitting a scorpion in lib (: I think THAT is way harding than balance beams?
@fitte6 Little ballerinas or hip-hop dances dont Get chucked 40 feet in the air though do they? Stop acting like you know it all cause you dont until you try cheer. K’thanks
@ghettoshen I get PE credit for cheer….?
@ghettoshen BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH ..
DID U JUST SAY YOU CAN DIE IN BAND???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@pitypop250 Well according to SCIENCE it is (: Sorry
@IPWNYOUYESHHH Calm the fuck down.Cheerleading is a sport, you are obviously looking at the WRONG kind of Cheerleading thanks. Didnt you just hear them? Cheerleading causes more inguries than gymnastics. I do cheerleading and gymnastics, but I like cheerleadingmore because its much harder. And im level 6 gymast. We dont”just shake our asses and scream” In fact we dont scream at all. And we only “shake our asses” in dances sometimes. We also stunt, tumble + jump (not like sissys)
Get your facts.
What about Junior High?
come on! we all know the worlds most dangerous sport is trying to play pranks on chuck norris while he is sleeping.
their so stupid there woah was woah woah wtf?? 0:02
I was also a gymnast, I started at age 2, then at 4 I was doing gymnastics and cheer at the same time. Then when I was 13 I just didn’t like gymnastics anymore, and only did cheer. And now I’m still just a cheerleader, both are pretty hard.
Not all cheer leaders are preps I hate that sterotype, I’m a competititve cheerleader, but hell no am i a prep. I get called emo all the time. I where dark clothes with skinnies and converses. And also cheer is a sport. Not all of the uniforms are that bad, but yes you do need smaller or a little bit of “clothes” so you can move around easier. There not hoes, but I will say some are.
Okay first of all I have done gymnastics basketball volleyball and cheerleading and cheer was the absolute hardest of all gymnastics was hard but cheerleaders don’t just shake there butt and scream on our team we weren’t aloud to scream whoooo or we would have to do even harder conditioning and the injuries for me was horrible i got a broken ankle b
cheerleading is not a sport and the reason they fall so much is because they dont know how to control there stunts i would know im a elite gymast. and all they do is shake there ass and scream! it annoys me!!
@pitypop250 I Can Do All that Stuff Alot Of Gymnasts Can Do As Well, I Did Hardcore Gymnastics For About 2 1/2 Years Then i Decided I Didnt Like It As Much As Cheer. I Will Admit that Gymnastics Is Extreamly Hard & You Need Alot Of Skill & Balance, but Cheer Is Alot More Than just Tumbling, Falling From A Switch kick double basket is not fun at all,