No More Stunts
So now we know why USC canned its cheerleaders. The Pac-10 released guidelines today on acceptable cheerleading activities. Actually, it probably affects USC the least because its spirit squads are not known for any acrobatic stunts.
Here's the guidelines:
PAC-10 ESTABLISHES CHEERLEADING GUIDELINES
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--The Pacific-10 Conference has established new safety guidelines for
cheerleading activities for all contests held at Pac-10 venues, Commissioner Tom Hansen
announced.
Hansen emphasized that cheerleading and performances of the cheerleaders are an important
part of the game-day experience at Pac-10 Conference institutions. However, as cheerleading
has evolved into a competitive activity nationally prompting cheer squads to perform more
dramatic and risky skills, safety concerns for the cheerleading participants led the Pac-10
Council to establish guidelines for cheerleader activities at Pac-10 intercollegiate events. This
action is being taken in conjunction with similar actions by the NCAA and national
cheerleading associations to limit the permissible activities of cheerleaders to reduce the risk of
injury.
The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA) recently
implemented new safety rules for basketball and indoor courts for 2006-07, which the Pac-10
guidelines will follow. The following skills are prohibited under the new safety rules:
a. Basket tosses, elevator tosses, and other similar multi-based tosses.
b. Partner stunts in which the base uses only one arm to support the top person.
c. Flips or twists into or from partner stunts.
d. Two-and-one-half person high pyramids.
e. Twisting tumbling stunts.
These new safety rules will be applied by the Pac-10 not just to indoor courts, but to all sports
and venues, including football. The AACCA exceptions for half-time or post-gameperformances shall be disallowed, and the above skills will not be permitted at any time
during any intercollegiate event. In addition, the current year AACCA College Cheerleading
Safety Rules must be followed for those activities which remain permissible.
The guidelines shall apply to all Conference and non-conference contests at Pac-10 sites. The
guidelines shall apply to both home and visiting cheerleaders and spirit groups. Home game
management shall be responsible for enforcing these guidelines for both the home and
visiting cheer squads.
"The Conference was pleased to see the AACCA take the steps it did," stated Hansen. "We
believe the same safety standards should apply to all events."
Woah Wolfie! Down boy! There's a breaking story out there that Reggie Bush is considering sitting out his first yr. in the NFL, and you print a story about the cheerleaders? ... Without pictures?
And I thought the Yell Leaders were just sick of doing push-ups.
Scott - when you write that SC canned its cheerleaders, I assume that you mean the male yell boys, not the girls. Is this correct?
I can't think of something I care less about.
While I love the Song Girls and think the Yell Leaders are, at best, tolerable, the rest of those sickening people known as cheerleaders can take a dirtnap.
I wish they were allowed to do frickin' blindfolded flips from pyramids ranging over five person tall... maybe we could live the Darwinian thing out and clean up the gene pool!
That is the lamest thing I ever heard. So it's more dangerous to be a cheerleader than a football player?
as long as the hotties show up in their short skirts, who cares if they're doing flips/pushups/ect....it's all about the twerllers anyway ...and the band !! O and the football team..
we'll need refs to make sure no ones does those crazy twisting tumbling stunts, especially into or from partner stunts or similar multi based tosses!!!
and the penalty(s) for such silliness is/are: for the guys - no parties at hefs house for a month; for the "young ladies" - they must walk around campus for a week in a taliban uniform!! fair's fair!!
thanks tom and the PAC.10 for your concern....what would we do without you??...for that matter, how have we gotten along for the last 50 yrs. without your B.S.???
To the guy who asked about whether canning the cheerleaders meant canning the men or the women: USC does not have female cheerleaders. Notice that the SONG GIRLS never actually lead cheers, they dance to songs. The YELL LEADERS were all male and they lead cheers. Ergo, they are the cheerleaders that are getting canned. If the Song Girls were ever to get the ax, say if western civilization were coming to an abrupt end, SC fans, alumni and students would descent on Heritage Hall with pitchforks and torches. The fact that nobody cares about his news items further shows that it's the boys who are being shown the door.