Do you think cheerleading is a sport??!?!?

ummmmmmm duh. I'm in cross country. we run. that isn't really a sport but i do believe it's more of a sport then cheerleading. what do you do in cheerleading? you shake your freakin little pon pon thingermajigs. what do you do in practice? sit on your butt watching other cheerleaders doing there jump thingy's. atleast when we run we have to workout and atleast get off our butt and work at getting better. o well that's what i think.

Umm, okay. I don't know what the cheerleaders are like at your school, but where I go, the LAST thing we do is sit around on our $%!@. We work hard preparing for competitions and games. We don't shake our "Pom-poms", we do try to motivate the team and get the crowd into the game. So take your stero-typing $%!@ and shut the $%!@ up..

========== In Reply To ========== ummmmmmm duh. I'm in cross country. we run. that isn't really a sport but i do believe it's more of a sport then cheerleading. what do you do in cheerleading? you shake your freakin little pon pon thingermajigs. what do you do in practice? sit on your butt watching other cheerleaders doing there jump thingy's. atleast when we run we have to workout and atleast get off our butt and work at getting better. o well that's what i think.

========== In Reply To ========== ummmmmmm duh. I'm in cross country. we run. that isn't really a sport but i do believe it's more of a sport then cheerleading. what do you do in cheerleading? you shake your freakin little pon pon thingermajigs. what do you do in practice? sit on your butt watching other cheerleaders doing there jump thingy's. atleast when we run we have to workout and atleast get off our butt and work at getting better. o well that's what i think.

Listen up, I'm a very athletic girl. I was even on the ballot for best athlete at my school. I've been cheerleading for 5 years, and it's much harder than any other sport i have ever participated in. In your "so called" sport of running, that's all you do. in a lot of of sports you have to run. Big deal!!! Cheerleading consists of stunting, dancing, and cheering. We do competitions too. Anybody can run, but I'd like to see you learn a dance in 15 minutes. We work out too. I worked for two weeks trying to hold my foot to the back of my head in a stunt. So you can take your cheer hating $%!@ back to the track.

your mom,

How the hell can you say running isn't a sport? Running is two sports, trackand field, and cross country. It takes athletic training to get better, being athletic helps, you compete, xc takes teamwork and track(though there are individual sports so don't matter). Explain to me why it isn't one, or anyone who dares for that matter. I am sick and tired of people saying everyone who does xc is gay/faggot/loser, or that xc isn't a real sport, or that xc isn't even a sport, or that xc doesn't take skill.

you call yourself a cross country runner, uhhhhhhhhhh