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 — ...

It's a shout many sports fans easily would associate with cheerleaders. But they might not think of the hours of practice, risk of injury, lack of recognition and potential mental health impacts that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Pacific 10 Conference committee and the National Administration of Cheer Coaches and Administrators recently put new restrictions on cheerleading stunts nationwide for the 2006-2007 school year to ...