wow, you norton cheerleaders sure are opinionated

Honestly, I think wrestling cheerleading is a great and wonderful thing. It pumps up the crowd, and as it has already been said, we aren't the only ones who are cheering. I have talked to some of the wrestlers and they say that they can't hear us because they focus on the coaches voice; therefore if our guys can't hear us, which we are a very loud group, then other guys shouldn't either. I agree that some cheerleaders may be annoying because I completely and totally see that too. Some of the cheer groups only care about seeing the guys. Our coach makes sure that we do not distract any of the wrestlers and if he sees us talking to a group of wrestlers, he will come up and embarass us. So all in all, I think wrestling cheerleading should stay.

lol yes chewbacca we are! Oh and haha I noticed that I spelled a few words wrong in my first post lol my bad.

I dont know about your squads, but at my high school we are not just cheerleaders, we are also managers. That means we fill waterbotles, take stats, video tape, whatever coach says, and help the guys with blood when necessary. We go to practice not only for our cheers and dance, but also to do the tasks coach has set up for us. We carry the equipment too and from the bus. We are useful! We go to help and for the love of the sport! I think it is so interesting but I don't have what it takes to actually wrestle, so this is what I can do to still be involved with the sport!

any cheerleader cheering for me is awesome. There are a few standards though, which we'll leave blank.

--Cheerleading in Football & Basketball is far more different than that of Wrestling, as they are far away from the players in football and basketball they are usually on the end of the court out of the way, unlike in wrestling where they are matside screaming and pounding and yes it does get annoying, it's okay once in a while but enough is enough, or when they do a good job chant you get beat, that's the most aggrivating.

--Norton has a good cheersquad and it shows in their performances, but their dance team is about as good, but still a great spectacle to watch.

--Finally cheerleading is NOT a sport, never will be, and shouldn't even be considered. According to Title IX, the worst thing to happen to Wrestling ever, the KSHSAA doesn't recognize it as a sport, but rather an activity such as Scholar's Bowl (which i'm a part of), chess club, and debate. I don't care you can argue you do as much physical work as everyone else, and you get hurt too, blah blah blah, cheerleaders do have the highest injury rate among sports, but that's only because of the unathleticness of them, when they toss each other and drop each other, and the count a sprained ankle as an injury, how many football players/wrestlers do you see that sprain ankles, break fingers, sprain them and just keep playing so they can't use that. They do not have a defined "season of activity". I contacted the KSHSAA last year, and the NCAA front office about this last year as I did a debate about it in my AP English class, in which i won the debate in a class of 2 guys and 9 girls, i convinced them that cheerleading wasn't a sport, the KSHSAA and NCAA do not recognize it as a sport thus i do not as well, and many others share my view, those of you that don't should because i speak the truth about it not being a sport....Cheerleading is an ACTIVITY, not a SPORT like wrestling!

Alex

i still like them though except when they have food on the bus but other than that there awsome, enthusiastic, generous, and for the most part conciderate (except when eating on the bus). I say keep them, love them, and charish them.

Who cares. This is a wrestling forum not a cheerleading forum.

cheerleaders shouldn't be aloud to cheer.

i respect what the cheerleaders have to say i know what they have to go though, most of my friends are wrestling cheerleader and i tell them that they can get anoying. i respect cheerleading cuz i do miss it, its just at wrestling they really dont belong in my eye's

I love my Buhler Cheerleaders

I personally think that cheerleaders can be entertaining during a long tournament. When you don't have a teammate to watch, you really are kind of bored. But some cheerleaders, not all, can do some pretty ditsy things. I remeber at one tournament a cheerleader fell on the mat as she was walking across it. It was a pretty funny ordeal with her reaction and everything. So i like the idea of having cheerleaders at tournaments. And they are not that hard to block out.

Okay, this is kinda getting old. No matter how much you people complain, nothing's going to change. It seems like this argument never ends. Give it up.

Imagine that a cheerleader telling us to stop trying to get rid of what's not needed? it's like leaving excess fat on your body? is it needed no...and i will do something about it, it's called sports, such as football, wrestling, freestyle wrestling, greco wrestling, but no i really don't care....if they're good looking bring it on, if not like stockton, stay home

You're beating a dead horse. Quit wasting your time. I'm so sure you have the power to get rid of wrestling cheerleaders in Kansas. Nice try buddy.

f**k cheerleaders thats all i have to say they are pointless wrestlers have fans and coaches and thats all they need to worry about!

imagine that, a girl supporting my claim? thank you

I love wrestling & I know my entire squad feels the same way. Excuse us for wanting to support our team. You are rude, completely disrespectful, immature and definately not worth my time. Have a nice night.

I'm glad you support it, support from the stands, I'm a Senior, not immature, apparently worth your time since you responded, my points... take your "activity" and go where teams need help, wrestlers rely on themselves not other people to get them going and to win, but i guess it does take a squad of cheerleaders to win a match? get real, Wrestlers in themselves are the reason they win, you are merely there for the spectators, b/c no one cares what you cheer, every other squad does the same stuff, get real, and try to find a sport to do instead of an activity

Ok... Do you really have to put down people for what they love to do? We aren't sitting here putting down people because they wrestle. Some of us like to cheer and are actually good at it. Some of us go to a different level and actually do this competitively and we can get offered scholarships to schools as well as you guys can. So don't sit here and put us down for something that we love to do. The Derby wrestlers always support us wrestling cheerleaders and so do the coaches and always make us feel welcomed, maybe you should just accept the fact that we are there and try to make the best of it. Thank you