Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...
WASHINGTON — Cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of sports-related deaths or serious injuries to high school girls over the past 25 years, according to a new nationwide study. It’s because ...
CBS televised the first cheerleading competition in 1978. The first basket toss — where a cheerleader is launched into the air and caught on her way down — was performed in 1984 at the University of ...