Back in the 1800’s, men led cheers on the sidelines at games.Now, the vast majority of the 3.5 million U.S. youth in cheerleading are girls between the ages of 6-17. And the sport has evolved ...

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 ...

The policy was updated last month at a time when more than 3.5 million youth (mostly girls starting at 6 years old) participate in cheerleading and, according to one estimate, 35,000 cheer ...