I know that their are many people who don't think that their should be cheerleaders in wrestling but I definately needed. It doesn't matter what they look like or how un attractive they are... they do alot for the wrestlers and should get more credit than what they get because if you ask me it is not very much!

I agree i def. think that cheerleaders are needed. I think the only thing that gets annoying is that it seems like they all know the same cheers. So when you're at a two day tourney, come Saturday you can recite the cheers 'with' the cheerleaders. Hand-motions and everything.

yeah i understand that.....I am a cheerleader and thats why i brought up this topic...but just to let you know my squad has been making up new cheers because our coach has notice that all the squads do the same cheers!

Well what school do you go to cuz i'll have to pay attention to you guys. Cuz the cheers i've seen are pretty lame. But it sounds like you guys got it all figured out!

keep up the cheering wc

I agree that cheerleaders dont get enough credit... but still, They are kinda annoying sometimes.

Well, the thing with cheerleaders is they can be very distracting to a wrestler and may get in the way of his/her warming up and may caust him/her a match cause they weren't warmed up enough. But they do give you something to win for since they are cheering for you. Let's just make sure all they are doing is cheering and not being to distracting.

To include such Wrestling Classics as:

ROll em over lay em flat pin their shoulders to the mat.

R-E-V-E-R-S-E, Reverse - Reverse.

yeah those cheers are both very common....but i dont think that cheerleaders are a distraction because we have nothing to do with wrestlers winning their matches thats their doing! cheerleaders try their hardest just to cheer them on while they are wrestling and try to get the fans involved..they dont try to distract wrestlers

Well... also sometimes you cant hear your coach when you are in a match because of the cheerleaders... someone like myself that isnt as experienced needs to hear his coach.

I was the wrestling cheer captian. having the cheerleaders there was a good way to show the other people at our school that wrestling was there and alot of peopled cared about it. on the other hand it was hard for the wrestlers to hear their coaches over us. then there are those cheerleaders that hit the mats and it was pissing the wrestlers off cuz they might have someone on their back and they would hit the mat and the wrestler would think that the wrestling match was over. every time we hit the mats the coach would get pissed, the wrestlers, our coach and i would all get pretty mad at the other girls. so if you do cheers that have to do with hitting the ground hit the gym floor not the mat and dont sit on the mat because the ref's need room to move around

Cheer leaders distract me when i wrestle i kinda gets on my nerves

Instead of Cheerleading in Wrestling. How about, wrestling IN cheerleading? Let these novices go at it on the mat at break for a "half-time" type show.

Nobody has ever seen Pitts, Pars, or Chan's cheerleaders.

I don't mind the cheerleaders but some of the wrestlers say that they are distracting....and I know some of the cheerleaders do say that they only go so they can check out the other team (and their own) in tight outfits....so I don't really know if they are actually needed....I mean the parents and friends do most of the cheering anyways.

I really do not like wrestling cheerleaders. Especially when you have 4 or 5 sets of them in one gym each doing a different cheer at the same time, talk about a headache. They don't really fit the setting of a wrestling meet either. I mean, how often do you hear someone say, "Is there enough glitter in my hair?" at a wrestling meet? And they say it like the amount of glitter in their hair will actually matter in the end. Because I'm pretty sure people don't look at the cheerleaders and say, "OOO She doesn't have enough glitter in her hair, shame on her, what kind of WRESTLING cheerleader is she?" I know when I'm on the mat and I glance over at them, the first thing I notice is the glitter in their hair.

I think that you guys are taking the whole wrestling cheerleading thing to seriously.....so if wrestling cheerleaders arent needed in wrestling..then why are they needed in basketball and football..i'm sure that they can be a distraction to that too! And when you say that they are so loud that you can hear the coach.. you should be smart enough to block out the cheerleaders.. it is not that hard to do!

cheerleaders are alright. they all do the same cheers and come about 4 in the afternoon it gets annoying. they need to mix it up. If a wrestler is getting distracted by cheerleaders and it "costs him the match" he would probably have lost anyway. the kid needs better focus

I like cheerleaders in wrestling... I think there's nothing more encouraging then when you pull out a hard earned move and hear the sidelines erupt in cheering.