By Gabriela Hernandez
Everyone knows cheerleading isn’t a sport! All it is are life size Barbies in frilly skirts jumping up and down and making our ears and heads hurt! The only things they basically do are smile and say little rhymes. Really, how hard is that!
Posing a grin or two here and there doesn’t take much effort. What does take effort though, is working your butt off for weeks maybe months of exercise and practice to play actual sports, such as volleyball, basketball, and even soccer. So what would you feel like if you worked and worked to have you effort ripped away so that some girls in skirts that are supposed to be cheering for you, knock you off your spot so that they can compete against each other? Well, that’s basically what happened to this college volleyball team.
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut decided that a cheerleading team would be better and more cost efficient than a volleyball team. So they didn’t have enough funds for both so they took away the volleyball team. Now the volleyball girls and there coach are angry and upset. They have decided to file a lawsuit in court against the university. A court judge will have learn about cheer and decide whether cheerleading is a sport or not. People have now said that making
cheerleading an actual sport would ruin the whole purpose of cheer! But wait, not only did they university replace volleyball with cheerleading, but has also removed men’s golf and indoor and outdoor track. In my opinion the university is getting rid of way to much just to add cheerleading as a sport.The university students have been asked there opinion. Some students agree with the university. While others say that how can a supporter of a sport take over or remove that sport. What’s the point of a cheerleading team without a team to cheer for?
Cheerleading has cheerleadears, pom-poms, and skirts. Sports has uniforms, jerseys, playing equitment, teams names and playing fields or courts. Cheerleading support the sport. Sports play the sport. Cheerleading is cheerleading. Cheerleading is NOT a sport!!!
Everyone knows cheerleading isn’t a sport! All it is are life size Barbies in frilly skirts jumping up and down and making our ears and heads hurt! The only things they basically do are smile and say little rhymes. Really, how hard is that!
Posing a grin or two here and there doesn’t take much effort. What does take effort though, is working your butt off for weeks maybe months of exercise and practice to play actual sports, such as volleyball, basketball, and even soccer. So what would you feel like if you worked and worked to have you effort ripped away so that some girls in skirts that are supposed to be cheering for you, knock you off your spot so that they can compete against each other? Well, that’s basically what happened to this college volleyball team.
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut decided that a cheerleading team would be better and more cost efficient than a volleyball team. So they didn’t have enough funds for both so they took away the volleyball team. Now the volleyball girls and there coach are angry and upset. They have decided to file a lawsuit in court against the university. A court judge will have learn about cheer and decide whether cheerleading is a sport or not. People have now said that making
cheerleading an actual sport would ruin the whole purpose of cheer! But wait, not only did they university replace volleyball with cheerleading, but has also removed men’s golf and indoor and outdoor track. In my opinion the university is getting rid of way to much just to add cheerleading as a sport.The university students have been asked there opinion. Some students agree with the university. While others say that how can a supporter of a sport take over or remove that sport. What’s the point of a cheerleading team without a team to cheer for?
Cheerleading has cheerleadears, pom-poms, and skirts. Sports has uniforms, jerseys, playing equitment, teams names and playing fields or courts. Cheerleading support the sport. Sports play the sport. Cheerleading is cheerleading. Cheerleading is NOT a sport!!!
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