HOST:
(1)Cheerleaders are part of (2)athletic competitions throughout the United States. They lead the crowd in cheering for the team it likes best.
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Twenty years ago, the purpose of cheerleading was to support a sports team. That is changing. Shep O'Neal tells us how cheerleading is developing into a sport of its own.
ANNCR:
The first organized American sports cheer was created at (3)Princeton University in the Eighteen-Sixties. But organized cheerleading did not begin until Eighteen-Ninety-Eight. That was when a student stood in front of a crowd at a game and led them in cheering for their team. That first cheerleader was Johnny Campbell at the University of (4)Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota also led the movement to make cheerleading a sport. In the Nineteen-Twenties, its cheerleaders began including (5)gymnastic movements in their cheers. This helped cheerleaders become known for their (6)athletic ability. And cheerleading became more interesting to watch.
Most cheerleaders in the early years were men. That changed during World War Two, when large numbers of young men left the country to fight. From that time on, more than ninety percent of cheerleaders have been female.
Cheerleading quickly spread from colleges to high schools. Today most American high schools include cheerleading among their student athletic activities. Thirty percent of the high school teams enter cheerleading competitions. These cheerleaders must be in good physical (7)condition. They must be able to jump high, turn circles in the air and lift each other. Some teams train all year long. As many as twenty-thousand girls attend cheerleading camps in the summer to improve their skills and learn new moves.
Some people say cheerleading is not a sport because it does not have (8)unified rules. Rules for competitions among cheerleading teams are different depending on the group organizing the (9)contest. Experts do agree, however, that cheerleading is an athletic activity requiring physical skill. They also agree that cheerleaders add to the excitement of an athletic event.
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