Cheerleaders for Wrestlers

[morelanmn]

Just wrestle, I read the information about cheerleading not being a collage sport

on The Mat site under Title IX. I tried to look it up for you but they have over 2,100

post and articals on Title IX. IF you want to look its themat.com

 

NCAA said it wasn't a sport not the wrestlers.

 

 

thanks

 

Michael Morelan

Edited July 14, 2003 by morelanmn

[finhead1212]

I was a cheerleading for two years and a soccer player since i was 3 and i know for a fact that when i go to a practice in a gym with tumbling tracks and competition floors you have to exhibit athletic ability that many football, basketball, and surely, baseball players cannot possibly match up to. I'm a guy and i would always stunt and tumble. Those are the things i liked in cheerleading but when we had to yell on the sidelines that's the part that isn't athletic and not fun for me. Somtimes is an acceptable answer for this question casue there are aspects of cheerleading that make it a sport yet there are many that don't make it a sport.

As for the college thing i don't know if it's an offical sprt but it gives very good scholarships so who cares if it's considered a sport or not?

[mchsballer]

Yeah, but this is about wrestling cheerleaders, whos ever seen a mat maid tumble?

[morelanmn]

Finhead,

It's very important. The NCAA does "unique" things with the counting of

the students in sports. Without cheerleading being a sport it allows collages

to give scholarships that are not counted toward Title IX complince. Thus

removing sports for men. But the NCAA also doesn't consender any sport

to be both for men and women. So if a woman becomes the kicker on a football team she is counted as a man. True this is very rare, but if Cheerleading is

counted as a sport that process will make the numbers in Title IX more

accurate. Who knows one day the NCAA may count you as a woman athlete.

 

To get back to Cheerleaders for wrestling. Cheerleaders bring people to

matches.. more people watching the more people will be exposed to the sport.

 

Michael Morelan

Edited July 15, 2003 by morelanmn

[JustWrestle]

I don't know. How many more people do you suppose really are coming to a wrestling match because of "cheerleaders"? I don't know, let's guess 50, on the lenient side. Well, that's all fine and dandy. Now the rest of us have to put up with those cheerleaders. They're still there!!!

[sd189]

the Soddy Daisy"Little Sisters" get state wide respect for the stuff they do.They work the state tour. every year as well as the McCallie Inv.

[JustWrestle]

They Soddy Daisy Little Sisters are well deserved of the respect that they get. They do work their butts off, especially during the State Tournament at Chattanooga. However, they are DIFFERENT from wrestling cheerleaders. This is the group of people that a lot of people have issue with.

[sundancer]

I agree with portions of each of these posts. We have a growing wrestling program and our cheerleaders & parents have done a great deal of work to help us at all our events. Without their help, I do not believe we would have been as successful as we have been. Our boosters see this group of youth as one team, it's all for one and one for all in our book.

 

I also agree with the issues raised about them being at the matside. Our girls have been asked to move at more than one event each year. For some reason, they do not feel that they can lead the cheers from the stands. When we are at large tournaments I would prefer them to cheer from the stands as a group, than to be running up and down the stands to the floor. There is so much congestion on the floor already.

 

Our girls do know about the sport, they are all taught how to keep score, statistics, run clocks, referee signals, etc. At times when our club has traveled to another tournament, it is not uncommon for our sponsors to be contacted to see if our girls can help out for an hour or so, so their workers can get a lunch break.

[morelanmn]

Sundancer,, Great post

 

 

Michael Morelan

Edited September 3, 2003 by morelanmn

[MaryvilleRebels]

Sun..seems to me like they are little slaves more or less. They are taught how to do stuff and they make them do this and that. Why do they cheer at all? Does it really help you any? Do you really hear the roar of the crowd, do you really hear the cheers? I know when I play basketball the fans only exsist when I am sitting the bench, shooting a free throw, and after the game. Every other time during the game they are just background noise.

[sundancer]

That's the difference between wrestling & basketball.

[JustWrestle]

Nope, I disagree with you Sundancer.