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Should Cheshire High School Have a Gymnastics Team?

  Gymnastics is a sport that many people are involved in or want to be involved in. That is why many towns have a high school gymnastics team for girls to participate in. High school gymnastics teams are a good idea because it offers another opportunity for girls in high school to get involved. High school gymnastics teams have a couple practices after school each week and several gymnastics meets on weekends as well as week days. However the gymnastics practices do not interfere with academics. Anyone is allowed to come and cheer on the high school gymnasts at their meets and show their school spirit. These are only a few of the many benefits that come with having a high school gymnastics team.

You do have to have a few specific skills to make the team as you would for any other school sport. However the required skills are rather simple so it’s not too hard for most gymnasts to make the team. Girls on high school gymnastics teams enjoy it because they get to be with their friends, they learn how to work as a team, and high school gymnastics is more about getting into it and trying your hardest rather than winning. This helps because there is not as much pressure as there would be when you are on a normal competitive gymnastics team. It is also convenient for parents because the practices are right after school so they don’t have to leave work early to bring they daughter to practice and it is also free. Some girls don’t have the chance to do gymnastics because it can be very costly and their parents might not be able to drive them. I think Cheshire High School should have a gymnastics team because it teaches girls to work as a team, it’s convenient for students and parents, and it gives girls another opportunity to get involved.

~Gabby

Is Competitive Cheerleading a sport?

 

Competitive cheer is not an official sport. It is considered    a championship sport. People have been pushing for competitive cheer to become a sport but it hasn’t happened. It is divided by age groups: tiny, mini, youth, junior, and senior. It is also divided up by levels 1-6. It may look easy, but it’s not.

In my opinion, competitive cheer should be a sport. You work hard, build strength, and lift people! A sport is “An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.” In competitive cheer you use physical exertion, and skill consisting of flips and flexibility  which not many people can do. Also you compete against other teams. So why can’t competitive cheerleading be a sport?

~Iliana Samsel

Cheerleading: A step above the rest

Most of you know what cheerleading is. Or you think you know what it is. You’ve already formed your opinions of how they’re just mean girls in short skirts, but it’s more than that. If you have ever gone to a real cheerleading competition you know that it actually takes skill. But you probably don’t know this: cheerleading is the second MOST dangerous sport in the world, next to rugby. For a cheerleader to hear this it’s like well, no duh, but you’re probably like, yeah how is sitting on a sideline saying “Go Team!” going to kill you? Well think about when you’re in a basket toss and your bases throw you 10-12 feet in the air and your spots decide not to catch you and you fall to the ground straight on your neck it’s not going to feel good. Check out the picture above, imagine falling backwards from this wouldn’t be too much fun. That would leave more than a couple scratches. It may sound stupid, like why would they not catch you, what are they doing? But you would be surprised at how often it happens. And as a flyer (girl being thrown) you gotta love being dropped!

So I hope you have been convinced of cheerleadings difficulty a little bit. Now I ask you, in your opinion is cheerleading a sport? If you just answered that question no, well don’t even go there! I somewhat agree that next to football and basketball cheerleading isn’t totally a sport but competition cheerleading is is just as much of a sport as anything else. At a cheerleading competition you show up and perform the routine that has been practiced for months and then watch the other teams. After that there are awards where they present trophies and prizes to the winners. Doesn’t that sound like a lot of other sports? So what truly makes it so different from every other sport. I believe one reason is just because it’s mostly a female sport and since people think women are inferior to men, cheerleading isn’t as professional and challenging. Maybe that is just my opinion but I don’t see any other reason for it not to be a sport. I once heard this old saying “Athletes lift weights, cheerleaders lift athletes.” This just proves how great cheerleading is and how much skill level it takes. So now do you think cheerleading is a sport?

~Kendal Frazier