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 — ...

From the humble beginnings of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush participating to the modern death-defying flips and formations, youth cheerleading has evolved into an entirely ...

After serving as a coach for Vancouver-based Southwest Washington Youth Cheerleading for several years, Crista Braun started to think about branching out on her own. She was motivated by her desire to ...

Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's ...