Cheerleading Safety From AACCA. Solutions to address the risks involved in cheerleading.

It’s that time of the year when some teams are preparing their routines for homecoming or competition, or even just filming skills videos for college competition. Here are a few tips and reminders about “routine” safety: It goes without saying to follow the rules. If you question a skill your team is working on, contact [...]

The Executive Committee of the AACCA has updated the 2009 – 2010 high school and college cheerleading safety rules to prohibit prone landings from airborne positions. The specific wording of the rules (high school rule D-10 and college rule G-5) is as follows: Airborne drops to a prone position on the performing surface are illegal. [...]

Over the next day or two, most college basketball programs (and even some high schools) will be hosting their annual “Midnight Madness” event that ushers in the excitement of college basketball. In most of these events, the university wants to have a “game” atmosphere by having the cheerleaders and even a pep band in attendance. [...]

AACCA has published its first ever Sports Injury Study. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the risk of participation in cheerleading and address previous data misinterpretations and sensationalism in recent media reports. A number of recent articles falsely claim that cheerleading is the most dangerous athletic activity, more dangerous than football and hockey. [...]

I get rules questions and notices of violations on a daily basis here in the AACCA office and I’m starting to notice a new pattern – YouTube. You see, the internet is to modern cheerleading what nationally-televised competition was to cheerleading in the early 80′s. For the entire history of cheerleading up to this point, [...]