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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in this fight but...A federal court has ruled that cheerleading is not a sport. [/quote]

Since the thread has drifted I thought I would point out the reason "cheer" is not considered a sport by the NCAA and most state high school sport regulatory bodies is that they do not want to take the steps necessary for cheer to be a varsity sport for title ix purposes.  Why?  Because if you do that you have to do two main things:  (1) hold competitions and championships as in other sports.  That would not be too difficult to accomplish.  There are competition formats that could be adopted.  More difficult is: (2) you must follow all of the rules applicable to varsity sports in general.  That means rules on coach contacts, practices, seasons, hours per week, etc all need to apply to cheer.  Start with, rules on a "season".  A season has a start date for practices and competitions and an end date.  High school cheer now will have often have tryouts in June andd practices/camps over the summer.  Fall comes around and practices continue with appearances at football and other games.  When are the cheer competitions?   Oops. Can't be in the Fall.  Those few states that do have cheer as a varsity sport tend to make it a winter or spring sport.  But now you have way, way, too much out of season practices and coach contact.   Violations that in another sport would lead to suspensions and forfeits.  To get around this those states that have cheer as a sport do not do "sideline" cheer, but instead create a different set of rules.  Michigan is an example.  Missouri tried for a couple of years and gave it up because of the rules conflict.

Now, a school can still call cheer a sport and do things like give varsity letters.  No problem.  But, to be a sport for title ix compliance purposes - what a court is concerned with - the governing organization has to treat it as a sport.  Most don't because cheer is too demanding.

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