Whitney Point is one of 14 high schools in the Binghamton area that began sending cheerleaders to girls’ games in late November, after the mother of a female basketball player in Johnson City, N.Y., filed a discrimination complaint with the United States Department of Education. She said the lack of official sideline support made the girls seem like second-string, and violated Title IX’s promise of equal playing fields for both sexes.
Should cheerleaders attend and support girls basketball games as well?
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2007-01-17 08:06:10 · 7 answers · asked by Active.com 4 in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
Why not? I was a cheerleader in High School for 4 years and we cheerleaded at football games & basketball games, the same squad both for boys and girls..sometimes we even helped out at the freshman games...If you wouldn't be cheering at both then why be a cheerleader? You are suppose to be school spirited and cheer on everyone not just basketball and football....thats why most of the schools have wrestling cheerleaders as well..everyone needs to be cheered on at some point.
2007-01-17 08:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends. If you have a single cheer squad but multiple teams to support (football, basketball, hockey, wrestling, etc, and then varying levels within those: Varsity, J.V., and Frosh), it could get pretty exhausting trying to be there for them all. Especially if the cheerleaders are also a competitive team in their own right.
In that case, I would rotate the squad's attendance between events, so that while no school team gets full coverage for a season they at least get the cheerleaders some of the time.
2007-01-17 12:47:34 · answer #2 · answered by Coach ~Jen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It If the girls basketball teams goes far in the state tournament, like they make it to the state final four, the cheerleaders should consider cheering since for some schools state final four is a big thing. But for everyday, normal, regular season games, it's not really needed unless you're some huge powerhouse girls basketball team that packs the gym for games. I can't see it happening at my school because we're not a girls bball powerhouse and we've been known to schedule a guys bball game and a girls bball game on the same day. (I know, real smart!)
2007-01-17 10:07:28 · answer #3 · answered by volleyball0815 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They absolutely should attend and support girls games as well as boys. As long as they are official representatives of the school, they have an obligation to support both girls and boys teams.
2007-01-17 08:17:09 · answer #4 · answered by Sara Katrina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 09:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by kincade 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be left up to the cheerleading squad.
2007-01-17 08:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by STEVE S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, just because under name "cheerleaders"
2007-01-17 08:20:41 · answer #7 · answered by wu n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋