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 — ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- More than half of U.S. cheerleading injuries are due to stunts and nearly all reported concussions occurred when doing a stunt, researchers said. The findings, ...

BYU cheer and STUNT team members, accompanied by Liz Darger, senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator, pose after their first STUNT tournament in Sacramento, California. They ...

Whether rallying the crowd at a sporting event or participating in competition, cheerleading can be both fun and physically demanding. Although integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can ...

Think back to any high school or college sporting event, and you’ll probably picture the tumbles, pyramids, and tosses of cheer squads hyping up the crowd. But the sport is no longer just confined to ...

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Erin Choi of Raleigh NC is caught by Ryan Shorter, left, and A.J. Goldston, right, at tryouts for the Ravens cheerleading and stunt squad this morning at the Merritt Athletic Club downtown. (Barbara ...