For now, cheerleading is not a sport in Nevada high schools. This may change when the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association revisits the issue in a year. Earlier this month the NIAA, which has ...

HARTFORD, Conn. • A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a sport by schools looking for ways to meet gender-equity requirements. The issue is part of a lawsuit ...

Have you ever asked yourself if cheerleading is actually a sport? Well I have I asked myself that everyday before I actually joined a cheer squad in 6th grade. I wondered if it was a good idea because ...

SWITZERLAND -- Cheerleading and Thai kickboxing have made their way into the Olympic movement. The International Cheer Union and the International Federation of Muay Thai received provisional ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Cheerleading isn't just jumping and waving pompoms — it has become as athletic and potentially as dangerous as a sport and should be designated one to improve safety, the nation's ...

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 — ...

Is high school cheerleading a sport? The injuries cheerleaders receive show they take their knocks like other athletes. In June, an Illinois delegation of doctors attending the American Medical ...

A Kansas City doctor and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a report analyzing the unique injury risks in cheerleading and how to improve safety for the first time in over a decade.

It's a shout many sports fans easily would associate with cheerleaders. But they might not think of the hours of practice, risk of injury, lack of recognition and potential mental health impacts that ...

Straining to turn a junior high talking point into a national discussion, USA Today devoted its editorial page to answering the most pressing of questions: "Should cheerleading be considered a sport?" ...

Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's ...