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 — ...

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 ...

WORTH COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) - In Worth County, this student-athlete is acing her tests and her cheerleading stunts. Junior Kendal Garwood is this week’s VSU Scholar Athlete. Not only does she cheer on ...

A Pacific 10 Conference committee and the National Administration of Cheer Coaches and Administrators recently put new restrictions on cheerleading stunts nationwide for the 2006-2007 school year to ...

Strapped to a backboard, 14-year-old Chelsea Clocker watched the ceiling lights of the gymnasium blur by as the medics rolled her out to an awaiting ambulance. A stunt she and other members of the ...

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 ...