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 — ...

High school cheer teams nationwide are reporting fewer lower-body injuries after adopting performance-supportive footwear.

As a member of Spruce Creek High School's competitive cheerleading squad, Brooke Bovier often comes home with bruises and sore limbs. While her mother, Christina Bovier, worries about a flying elbow ...

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 ...

After a win at a qualifying event on Jan. 18, the North Valleys Panthers Cheerleading and Stunt Squad is headed to the USA Nationals Cheer Competition in Disneyland March 28. At the USA Regional ...

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 ...

The lunchroom debate has made its way to the top of the California state legislature. And Gov. Jerry Brown’s answer is yes. Cheerleading will become a CIF sport beginning in the 2017-18 school year ...

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 ...