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 — ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- More than half of U.S. cheerleading injuries are due to stunts and nearly all reported concussions occurred when doing a stunt, researchers said. The findings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roland Pollard, a former professional cheerleading coach, practices stunts with his two children Jax, 4 months and Jayden, 5.

Whether rallying the crowd at a sporting event or participating in competition, cheerleading can be both fun and physically demanding. Although integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can ...

BYU cheer and STUNT team members, accompanied by Liz Darger, senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator, pose after their first STUNT tournament in Sacramento, California. They ...

Think back to any high school or college sporting event, and you’ll probably picture the tumbles, pyramids, and tosses of cheer squads hyping up the crowd. But the sport is no longer just confined to ...

This two-year-old girl has some serious cheerleading skills. Zianne Angierein Garcia, who is also known as Zeexhie, has become a local celebrity in the Philippines thanks to her incredible acrobatics.

Here is how an unplanned cheer path for George Jenkins senior Weatherholtz led to The Ledger's Competitor of the Year.