�Cheerleading is over 100 years old. On November 2, 1898, Johnny Campbell lead the first cheerleaders at an University of Minnesota football game.
�In the beginning all Cheerleaders were men.
�97% of all cheerleaders are female, however, almost 50% of collegiate Cheerleaders are male.
�12% of Cheerleaders are aged 5 to 13 years and 12% are dancers.
� The main difference between all-star cheerleading, high school cheer, and pop warner cheerleading is for all-star you cheer as a sport but the others you cheer for a sport. Also, for all-star cheerleading you have more competitiona and they are taken more seriously. In high school and pop warner cheerleading you are mainly chanting cheers while all-star is more physical by doing stunts and tumbling.
�Some of the most common Cheerleading injuries are broken arms and busted lips. Jumps and Stunts.
�Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions. The athlete involved is called a cheerleader. Cheerleading originated in the United States, and remains a predominantly American activity, with an estimated 1.5 million participants in all-star cheerleading
�In the early 1980s, cheerleading squads not associated with a schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge. The first organization to call themselves all stars and go to competitions were the Q94 Rockers from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1982
�In the early 2000s, cheerleading was considered one of the most dangerous school activities. The main source of injuries comes from stunting, also known as pyramids. �The risk of cheerleading was highlighted when Kristi Yamaoka, a cheerleader for Southern Illinois University, suffered a fractured vertebra when she hit her head after falling from a human pyramid.[52] She also suffered from a concussion, and a bruised lung.[53
�Cheerleading requires you to be in excellent physical condition, much the same as any high-impact, high-intensity sport. The routines call on you to be limber, loose and flexible with your body movements, as well as strong enough to support yourself and any team mates as you go into the various twists, turns, jumps and spins that characterize properly-choreographed routines.
�There are different levels in all-star cheerleading. The levels start at 1 and usually go to 5. But, there are higher levels. Level 1- Forward roll, cartwheel, single jump, thigh stand, and a prep. 2-Round off, round off back-handspring, double back-handspring, multiple jumps, one-leg prep, both leg extended, straight ride basket. 3-Round off back tuck, round off back-handspring back tuck, multiple jumps to a back-hanspring, one-leg extended, twist bastket. 4-Round off back-handspring back lay out, standing back tuck, multiple jumps to multiple back-handsprings, one-leg extended, back tuck basket. 5-Round off back-handspring half, standing back-handspring to a back tuck, multiple jumps to a back tuck, one-leg extended, kick basket.