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..."Today, however, the activity is still too underdeveloped and disorganized to be treated as offering genuine varsity athletic participation opportunities for students." -Us District Judge Stefan Underhilll

An activity can be considered a sport under Title IX if it meets specific criteria. It must have coaches, practices, competitions during a defined season and a governing organization. The activity also must have competition as its primary goal -- not merely the support of other athletic teams.

For almost three decades, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights actually told schools not to include cheerleading as sport. Why? The OCR has the task of making sure that schools are not gender biased in their offerings. The sports offerings for schools need to be evenly distributed between girls and boys so that the school is not classified as gender biased. To even out the books, schools were told not to recognize cheerleading as a sport. In the last decade or so, schools have gotten around this by offering a spirit club that primarily cheers at games and a squad that attends competitions.

People, just because you work hard at something doesn't make it a sport. And just because you can get hurt doing something doesn't make it a sport.
It's cheerleading.

It was conceived as a sideline booster activity for real sports like football and basketball.
subjectively judged athletic events cannot be called a sport.

he physical exercise doesn’t make it a sport. If that were true, then digging in my garden would be a sport. The training doesn’t make it a sport: If that were true, then dance would be a sport.

No, cheerleading is a pastime, pure and simple. Like pilates classes and the ilk. A more desirable pastime than, say, shooting methamphetamine, but a pastime nonetheless.
It’s a popularity contest. Some people might insist that because there’s some athleticism involved, that makes it a sport. But there’s athleticism involved in being a pole dancer, too, and no one would claim that’s a sport.

Cheerleading isn’t a sport. It’s just not. It was created to get the crowd riled up and cheer on others who were actually playing sports. And how about the fact that it has a huge element of looks? These girls are supposed to look hot, at least they usually tend to. What sport has any basis in how you look?
Deanna Harvey of the New York Daily News tries to defend cheerleading as a sport by writing up a bunch of nonsense that can easily be shot down.

She writes:

"These critics obviously never went through one of our grueling practices or routines. Five days a week, for at least three hours each day, we practiced stunting (two or three girls throwing another member of our squad into the air where she performed a flip), dance routines, gymnastics (layouts, back hand-springs) and long stretches. The basketball, football and swim teams did not put nearly as much time into their daily practices as we did.

You think football is dangerous? Think about flying 10 feet into the air and landing (hopefully) into the arms of a 100-pound girl. Cheerleaders risk paralysis or lifelong back or leg injuries, but will do anything to nail their stunts and routines, no matter how dangerous they may be."

As to the first argument about the football team and swim teams not practicing as hard as the cheerleaders: Practicing playing the guitar a lot, does that make music a sport? By practicing something a lot that makes whatever you are practicing a sport? Stupid argument.

Cheerleading is not a sportThe second part….it’s dangerous? Are you serious? Stunts are dangerous. Jumping out of a plane into enemy territory is dangerous. Hell, war is dangerous. Are those sports? Again, awful argument.

Don’t give the “it’s difficult” and “we work hard” crap. Brain surgery is difficult, but it’s not a sport. Mechanics work hard. Is it a sport when you change someone’s oil?

I go back to my earlier argument on the origins of cheerleading: How many sports take place on the sidelines of other sports? Careful running down that foul ball, you might collide with the basketball team!
Not claiming that cheerleading isn’t hard. Or that the girls (and some guys) don’t work hard. That doesn’t make something a sport. It doesn’t make it anything less than what it is. It is what it is, and it is what it isn’t……. a sport. And the judge agrees.