Posted on 06/26/2009 11:31:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Cheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps. But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports. Researchers have long known how dangerous cheerleading is, but records were poorly kept until recently.
An update to the record-keeping system last year found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading.
The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven). Today, the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released its 26th annual report on the topic. The latest figures are from the 2007-2008 academic year for college and high school sports, male and female. The report defines catastrophic injuries as any severe or fatal injury incurred during participation in the sport.
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It’s a scene from “Animal House”...:)
Oh yeah! It's a helluva lot more dangerous if the pyramid collapses when the horse is still on top, or someone forgets to catch him after a throw!
I always wondered about those guys who took ballet class, cheerleading and theater.
In retrospect, playing hockey and rowing crew were kind of a waste of time. I got to hang out with a bunch of sweaty guys and have some injuries that still act up every once in a while.
Meanwhile, my cousin was helping cheerleaders stretch, throwing and catching them and spending evenings and weekends with the theater girls. He was smarter than me, that's for sure. (though he did play rugby, too, so no one can question his masculinity, at least not in his presence).
Dangerous I reckon! I get stiff just looking at her!
Heh, did you see the video at the link?
I did- very funny
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