cheerleaders

Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies will cheer on the Rams this season.

Harrison Wilkerson is now a cheerleader at NC State, which recruited him to play football.

Nicholas Ramirez is the happiest he’s ever been.

Jacob Jean is a proudly out Spartan.

She wins honor from her Kansas City area classmates.

Landon Patterson is nominated for her school's homecoming queen and describes her cheer teammates as a "second family."

Drew Allensworth grew up in rural Oklahoma thinking he could never come out. Now he's been accepted by his fraternity and athletic department at the Univ. of Oklahoma.

Details magazine has a piece about the world of adult cheerleading, and their focus is Cheer New York, a mostly gay cheerleading squad in the Big Apple. I’ve worked with these folks, including Felipe Hernandez whom I can’t say enough good things about, and they are fantastic, always willing to lend a hand to bring […]

When Quinnipiac University cut women’s volleyball and kept cheerleading, the volleyball players sued saying it violated Title IX. A judge has agreed, forcing the university to add more women’s sports scholarships. The decision raises the question about whether cheerleading is a sport. My greatest cheerleading memory was at a Stanford-Cal football game. One of the […]

Whether cheerleading is a sport at all could be the subject of great debate. But that’s just small potatoes: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cheerleading is a contact sport, just like football, and under Wisconsin law, you can’t sue someone for accidental injury in a contact sport. The case was brought by Brittany […]