

Traditional Cheerleading is already a highly-regulated activity to promote and increase safety. Is it necessary to designate Traditional Cheerleading as a school sport to improve safety?
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A Safety and Risk Management course was developed from the manual which is used to educate Cheer coaches and officials throughout the US and even around the world. This manual is in its 4th edition now as the USA Cheer Cheerleading Safety Manual. Safety Education – AACCA developed the first Cheer safety manual in 1987.The rules are based on expert input and recommendations in conjunction with available safety data from the NFHS injury studies and the National Catastrophic Injury Research Center. Rules – USA Cheer works with the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to provide rules for high school cheerleading, which restricts the skills and stunts that may be performed.USA Cheer has continued the efforts of the former American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA)* to promote safety in the Cheer community. What current standards are in place to ensure cheer safety?Īll disciplines of Cheer are regulated to ensure safety. These cheerleading teams may also compete. Recreational Cheerleading – Non-school based cheerleading teams who support other non-school based athletic teams.STUNT – Discipline of Cheer that is exclusively focused on competition in a head-to-head, four quarter format between private gyms.

as “all-star” teams) whose primary focus is to compete against cheer teams from other private gyms in a routine format specific to club cheer.
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The emergence of different disciplines of Cheer has created confusion across the country of how to regulate Cheer (as a sport or school activity) and whether different disciplines of Cheer can be counted for Title IX compliance efforts.

Schools have adopted various forms of Cheer to uniquely support the needs of sports and activities within their schools. USA Cheer recognizes the importance of sportsmanship and the impact that Cheer has in building “spirit” at games, within schools and in the community. Cheer has evolved as a highly skilled athletic activity, and in the case of STUNT, to the level of varsity interscholastic and intercollegiate sport being played in high schools and colleges across the country. USA Cheer promotes and oversees all disciplines of Cheer within the United States.
