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2…4…6…8… who should we appreciate? Cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are one of the few school athletes who do not get respected for all of the hard work that they do. There are three main reasons that cheerleaders should get respected more. A lot of time and effort goes into cheerleading. There are a lot of injuries and cheerleaders also go to competition sometimes too.
There is so much time spent in cheerleading. Nearly much as the other teams, such as basketball, soccer, and the other big name sports, spends practicing, so do the cheerleaders. The time is used for practicing stunts. There are a lot of different stunts in cheerleading such as Babies, Full, and Liberties. A baby is when there are 2 base people and a back spot and one flyer (the girl who goes up) and the flyer puts her feet in the bases hands and the bases extend there hands to chest level. A full is the same thing except that the bases hands are extended above their heads. A liberty is when the girls are in the “full” position and the flyer has one leg in the bases hands and the other foot is touching her knee. A lot of time is spent coming up with new routines and cheers. Cheerleaders need to do this to keep the crowd interested and they are not seeing the same thing all the time. Cheerleaders need to come up with a lot of cheers to get the crowd pumped which gets the teams, such as basketball and football, pumped up also. A lot of time also goes into fundraising. Fundraising consists of doing car washes; bake sales, selling pizzas, and all different kinds of things. Fundraising is used to buy things that the cheerleaders need or when they need money to go to competition.
During competition season that’s when cheerleaders go in to overtime. Practice is twice as long such as it being just from 3 to 5 during a regular season they would have the regular practice time and then they would have it from 7-9 after the game or something along those lines. Ther...