Cheerleading

[FantasyAlliance.cm]

How come they didn't have any cheerleaders to cheer on the cheerleaders at the cheerleading competition?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

They should have basketball games on the sidelines during cheerleading meets.

 

[shotglass]

My daughter's in marching band, and I'm very confident that no one outside the band members' families give a hoot about the results. (They won the event last weekend, btw.). Parents like to see their kids' names in the paper, but you'd have to be at a pretty small paper for band to make the cut.

OTD, maybe it's not the case where you are, but these band competitions are pretty big around here. I mean, they darn near pack high school stadiums ... bigger crowds, I might add, than most high school football games.

I'm glad our news-side took the initiative to give coverage to this kind of thing. And we aren't a 10,000 daily.

 

[OTD]

My daughter's in marching band, and I'm very confident that no one outside the band members' families give a hoot about the results. (They won the event last weekend, btw.). Parents like to see their kids' names in the paper, but you'd have to be at a pretty small paper for band to make the cut.

OTD, maybe it's not the case where you are, but these band competitions are pretty big around here. I mean, they darn near pack high school stadiums ... bigger crowds, I might add, than most high school football games.

I'm glad our news-side took the initiative to give coverage to this kind of thing. And we aren't a 10,000 daily.

I am continually amazed at the stuff I learn here. It wouldn't occur to me that anyone would so much as walk across the street for something like that.

This will make my daughter's day when I tell her this . . . she's pretty much of the opinion that football is just filler around the halftime show anyway.

 

[shotglass]

Scary, huh?

 

[slappy4428]

Call from the AD of one of the local schools Saturday night —"Hey, our cheerleaders finished fourth in the state competition. Wondering if you could get something in." Passed it on to the news department, who put it on the education page.

This morning, a call from a mother — "(Area school) won its fourth consecutive state cheerleading title. I sent you a team photo to get in. This is A BIG DEAL. This is just as important as volleyball and the other sports. You didn't run any photos of our Homecoming court, and we don't know why. That's why you need to get this in, because there will be a lot of angry people in the community."

Ah, Mondays.

Well ma'am, our policy is not to run team photos.
And who sanctioned the state competition? For high schools, we only recognize (insert state high school association here). I can pass this along to our news side, if you like.

 

[KP]

Homecoming court and she called sports. That's funny.

 

[slappy4428]

Homecoming court and she called sports. That's funny.

Actually, the largest paper in my state runs photos of the homecoming queen in the sports section and includes a game note on her selection for the three biggest universities in the state.

 

[rgd]

OTD, maybe it's not the case where you are, but these band competitions are pretty big around here. I mean, they darn near pack high school stadiums ... bigger crowds, I might add, than most high school football games.

How much of the stadium is filled with the competitors themselves? And how often are these competitions staged?

 

[Oz]

Nice local news page stories....NOT SPORTS

Yep. Because the moment cheerleading contest results make the paper, here comes frisbee golf and poker tournaments from McGraw's last Thursday night (Ladies night, dollar draws) and whatever else might be out there.

I have no problems with doing a cheerleader story once a sports season, seeing how much fun the reporter might have with it (think "Bring It On") or if they simply bring back a solid, intriguing read from it. But that one feature should do it. Anything more would be way too much.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Me: Is cheerleading a sport?
Cheerleading parent: Yes.
Me: Why?
The kids work so hard, just as hard as the football players and they're such great athletes.
Me: Why is it a sport?

 

[slappy4428]

Me: Is cheerleading a sport?
Cheerleading parent: Yes.
Me: Why?
The kids work so hard, just as hard as the football players and they're such great athletes.
Me: Why is it a sport?

I would surmise that because cheerleaders usually fall under the auspices of the athletic director in most high schools, parents think it is a sport, when in reality it is there only because the AD gets stuck with it.