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

As was expected, there were quite a few responses to the announcement May 11th that there would be new restrictions by AACCA for elementary, middle school and junior high school cheerleading programs. I’ve been asked about those responses and I thought it would be beneficial to share some of them with you (in addition to [...]

(A press release has also been issued here) The AACCA released its “2010-11 School Cheer Safety Rules” today which include some changes for all school teams along with the first ever set of rules specifically for elementary, middle and junior high school cheer teams. Changes affecting all school teams: Released stunt transitions must be braced [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

Thanks to some very attentive coaches, we realize there were two rules left off of the 2009-2010 AACCA College Safety Rules that should have been included. The first is a new rule put in place last year regarding handspring load-ins to partner stunts. This skill now requires a spotter if the top person is released [...]