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 — ...

ST. LOUIS — A national cheerleading safety group is calling for the suspension of certain aerial and towering stunts during this year’s college basketball tournaments in response to a cheerleader’s ...

March 8, 2006 — -- Kristi Yamaoka, the Southern Illinois cheerleader who fell 15 feet and landed on her head when a stunt went wrong during a women's basketball tournament, says she hopes to be ...

Cheer activities are a little different this year for students at Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School in San Luis Obispo. “We’re not just, like, pom-poms and skirts and a big smile. Like, ...