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Process Essay: How Cheerleading Is A Sport

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Shawna Fox once said while talking about cheerleading "we make it look easy, but like all sports it takes hard work and dedication." Just like most sports cheerleaders have to have muscle, cheerleaders have to do a lot of hard stunts and jumps and cheerleaders risk serious injuries. Cheerleading is a sport because there is a lot of hard work put into it.

Just like most sports cheerleaders have to be in shape and have muscle. Cheerleading involves skills which requires the strength of football, grace of dance and the agility of gymnastics (Aacca.org). To do stunts and jumps you have to have muscle to be able to throw a girl or lift your self up in the air.

Cheerleaders do a lot of training to do a lot of different things. To be able to stunt you have to have balance, flexibility and strength to be able to toss a hundred pound girl in the air (Popoloski, Dan). To stunt you can not just throw someone up in the air and it look perfect the first time, cheerleaders practice their stunts or their tumbling over and over again until it is perfect. That's the same thing in football, the first time football players practice a play its not going to be perfect so you keep working on it until it is. …show more content…

Just like in sports such as football, cheerleaders are constantly at risk of getting injured (Fernandez, Eric). When cheerleaders stunt their is a big risk of the flyer being dropped, if the flyer is dropped she could break something, get a concussion or even become paralyzed. Patty, a seventeen year old, was paralyzed after sustaining a brain injury while cheering for her high school football team. She hit her chest and her heart stopped (Dorning, Anne-Marie). The risk of injury in cheering is very serious, it can happen in high school or competitive

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