It's a shout many sports fans easily would associate with cheerleaders. But they might not think of the hours of practice, risk of injury, lack of recognition and potential mental health impacts that ...

Local competition cheerleaders Kennedy Thompson, a seventh-grader at College View Middle School (CVMS), and Reagan Aldrich, a fourth-grader at East View Elementary School, devote hours of their time ...

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 — ...