[BasketBallonlyfan]

I might get bashed for saying this. But I think that cheerleaders are just as athletic as the athletes that play any other sport. They depend on the other people on their squad more than football players and basketball players do. I dont know of any athlete that plays football, baseball, golf, football, soccer or any other sport that would let their team mates throw them up in the air and depend on them to catch them before they hit the ground.

On the other hand. I think if cheerleaders and squads want to really be recognized as a true sport, they should be some way of measuring how they are doing DURING the contests. I know they have competitions in the regions, districts, state, and they even have their own nationals. If they want to be considered as a true sport, their should be some kind of board or something to see where each squad is standing in relationship to other squads. I cant think of any other sport where the contestants are in the dark as to how they are doing until the event is over. Then they get a score sheet.

I am not taking anything away from the cheerleaders in this post, so dont think I am. I dont have the nerve to do some of the things that they do on the court and fields. Some things they do I dont see how a person could get their body to do it over and over. Shoot, sometimes I get a head rush from standing to fast. How can they do those things where they are going from one end of the court to the other end without forgetting which way is up or down. Hats off to them for the job they do.