It could have Title IX ramifications.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/connecticut-trial-determine-cheerleading-sport/story?id=10972950

That's interesting. Never really thought about it from that side of things. That is kind of a low blow to try and eliminate a sport that way.

Wisconsin court last year found it to be sport, Florida high schools as well, evolution of cheerleading makes it much different than even ten years ago. could have dramatic effects. Did you notice how women in track and field are counted three times, indoor, outdoor, and cross country. So one kid is registered as three for Title 9 purposes. For some struggling schools economics may come into play. The school in question spends 1500 for each cheerleader, 6500 for each volleyball.

Do we count school dance teams as a sport?

Title IX...Don't get me started.

 

I wish that it was use the way it was probably intended.

Wisconsin court last year found it to be sport, Florida high schools as well, evolution of cheerleading makes it much different than even ten years ago. could have dramatic effects. Did you notice how women in track and field are counted three times, indoor, outdoor, and cross country. So one kid is registered as three for Title 9 purposes. For some struggling schools economics may come into play. The school in question spends 1500 for each cheerleader, 6500 for each volleyball.

 

Those are some expensive volleyballs.

 

To be serious, women track and fielders are counted no more times than men track and fielders. There have always been and will always be athletes of both genders that are participants in multiple sports.

I thought that the most interesting comment was the one basically asking if folks would stand still for a traditional men's sport being replaced by a male cheerleading squad.

If a player plays F, JV an V in one sport then they are counted 3 times as a participant.

 

If cheerleaders were counted in Title IX money then there would be no way the boys would outspend the girls. Cheerleaders spend more money than any sport excluding the coach's salary.

If a player plays F, JV an V in one sport then they are counted 3 times as a participant.

 

If cheerleaders were counted in Title IX money then there would be no way the boys would outspend the girls. Cheerleaders spend more money than any sport excluding the coach's salary.

 

This is so true! (Especially Greenup County Cheerleaders). If it was ruled a sport all of our Title IX worries would disapear!

If a player plays F, JV an V in one sport then they are counted 3 times as a participant.

 

If cheerleaders were counted in Title IX money then there would be no way the boys would outspend the girls. Cheerleaders spend more money than any sport excluding the coach's salary.

 

Are you meaning traveling expenses? If not, the bolded certainly is not true. To outfit one participant per season, football most certainly costs more than cheerleading.

Are you meaning traveling expenses? If not, the bolded certainly is not true. To outfit one participant per season, football most certainly costs more than cheerleading.

Are we buying totally new equipment for each football participant each season? I surely hope not. Once outfitted, I can't see how a football player is any more "expensive" than any other athlete.

Are you meaning traveling expenses? If not, the bolded certainly is not true. To outfit one participant per season, football most certainly costs more than cheerleading.

 

Those blue mats that they always have are very expensive.

The spend a ton with camps, travel gear, uniforms, safety mats, transportation, equipment, signs, competitions...etc. PLUS the fact that cheerleading essentially stretches through all three sports seasons. This would be a good thing for a number of schools.

 

A school will 1) add a female sport, 2) add female participant's, 3) add to the money spent on each female athlete.

I was a cheerleading coach for five years and now work as an administrative assistant to a football team, so I am well aware of the costs for both programs. Until I started working with the football program, I would NEVER have imagined that it was so expensive. Ever looked into how much it costs to recondition helmets (which is required EVERY year) and to replace helmets that are rejected? Much less the fact that shoulder pads SHOULD be reconditioned and that due to the nature of the sport that jerseys and pants HAVE to be replaced more often then many other sports. At my school, that is not how it actually is (other sports get uniforms much more frequently than football, which I have no problem with, as they raise the majority of the money to do so), but the need for football to do it is greater.

Those blue mats that they always have are very expensive.

 

Yes. They are. So are football helmets...and the mats don't have to be reconditioned every year and some years get rejected and have to be replaced. Not to mention that football has to pay six officials for every game. Not to mention that the field must be marked with paint for each game (unless you are lucky enough to have turf, which isn't cheap, either). There are so many expenses that people don't see with football.

 

I am not putting one sport above the other. I am just saying that I know first hand that cheerleading is not more expensive than football per participant, unless the cheerleaders do a heck of a lot of traveling.