Cheer activities are a little different this year for students at Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School in San Luis Obispo. “We’re not just, like, pom-poms and skirts and a big smile. Like, ...

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 — ...

Making cheerleading safer is the mission of a brain surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This doctor is an expert in traumatic brain injuries, something that's a risk with cheerleading. She ...