Cheerleading: Dance and Sports Teams

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Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, using organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions. The person involved is called a cheerleader. The National Cheerleaders Association (NCA), the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA), and the United States All Star Federation are three of the sanctioning bodies for cheerleading in the USA. Cheerleading originated in the United States, and remains a predominantly American activity, with an estimated 1.5 million participants in all-star cheerleading. The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On. Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100,000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.


Cheerleading is an organized activity which involves leading a series of cheers to rally the crowd at sports events . On high levels, cheerleading is itself a sport, with participants performing dances and complex tricks which are extremely physically demanding. Cheerleaders can often be seen on the sidelines at professional sports games, and organized cheerleading also exists in schools , from elementary school all the way through college. Some people are dismissive of cheerleading as a sport , because it may not initially appear to be very strenuous , but cheerleaders at the top level of competition are actually very serious athletes, Comparable to top-tier athletes in other sports.

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a...
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