Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's ...

Amid bellowing beats and screaming spectators, athletes adorned in rhinestones sporting colossal bows on Monday performed flips, toe-touches and round-off back handsprings. Linganore Cheer took home ...

Jennifer King had always been a dancer. What she didn’t realize, until that day she stood in the long line outside an airport hotel, is that she was a cheerleader, too. She had danced growing up, and ...

High school cheer teams nationwide are reporting fewer lower-body injuries after adopting performance-supportive footwear. Athletic training records and budgets now show a trend toward cheer-specific ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...