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Maryland cuts competitive cheer
by Title IX Blog
posted April 21, 2012 at 5:00pm

The first DI school to raise the issue of cheerleading as a sport, Maryland decided last week to cut the team now known as acrobatic and tumbling or acro for short. The acro team is one of 8 varsity teams being cut at Maryland which is suffering from huge...more

Preventing Cheerleading Injuries
by Sports Girls Play
posted July 5, 2011 at 10:42pm

As the debate as to whether cheerleading is a sport continues and as cheerleading statistically continues to be considered one of the more dangerous high school sports, it is important to note that many cheerleading injuries can be prevented. STOP Sport...more

Cheerleading Coach Files Title IX Lawsuit Against University of Alabama
by Title IX Blog
posted July 5, 2011 at 8:33am

Debbie Greenwell was the head cheerleading coach at the University of Alabama for more than 24 years, until, she alleges, she was terminated from her position in a dramatic fashion in response to her advocacy for equal treatment for her student-athletes. ...more

What will cheerleading investigation in SC find?
by Title IX Blog
posted June 6, 2011 at 12:27pm

Parents filing Title IX complaints with the Office of Civil Rights might be the trend of the month.In South Carolina, parents of a cheerleader at Lugoff-Elgin High School started wondering where the money allotted for cheerleaders was going when they were...more

Is cheerleading a sport?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted May 24, 2011 at 7:05pm

Question of the day - what is a sport? This is something which exercises (sorry!) me coming from an Olympic perspective; what sports should be included and what ones not? And it seems from a collection of articles in my inbox this morning that cheerleader...more

Competitive Cheer Pushes to be Recognized as Varsity Sport
by Title IX Blog
posted May 23, 2011 at 6:45pm

Today's New York Times includes an article on the competing proposals to the NCAA to recognize some version of competitive cheer as an emerging sport for women. One was submitted by a consortium of six universities already sponsoring varsity-level cheer,...more

Required to cheer for your assailant? Whose rights count?
by Fair Game News
posted May 10, 2011 at 12:29pm

By Susan McGee Bailey The U.S. Supreme Court last week remained silent in the case of a Texas cheerleader, but the message was alarmingly loud: It may be 2011, but high school girls don’t have the same rights as high school guys. The Court declined to...more

Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk: Cheer is here
by Title IX Blog
posted February 5, 2011 at 2:15pm

Rather STUNT is here.USA Cheering's season of STUNT began last week with a competition at University of Louisville featuring teams from the host institution as well as West Virginia University, and Moorehead State.You might recall a certain schism in the ...more

The cheerleaders are fighting!
by After Atalanta
posted September 9, 2010 at 9:40pm

Yes, I went for the cheap titillation with the not-so-accurate headline. But I am so very amused at the way this whole cheerleading; sport or not? thing has gone down since the ruling earlier in the summer in the Quinnipiac case. Every week since the ruli...more

Some reflections on the media's coverage of the Quinnipiac decision
by Title IX Blog
posted August 10, 2010 at 8:01pm

I've been reluctant to post links to the media coverage and commentary regarding the Quinnipiac ruling. This is because most of it that I've read sounds as if the author didn't even read the judge's opinion, but rather, used a generalized version of its ...more

Lessons from Quinnipiac: Cheer should be an NCAA sport (with a different name), think fresh (don’t whine like the male wrestlers) — and, yes, we still need Title IX
by Fair Game News
posted July 28, 2010 at 5:00pm

By Laura Pappano When District Judge Stefan Underhill ruled against Quinnipiac University – last year they sought to cut women’s volleyball and add competitive cheer to fulfill Title IX requirements – the 95-page ruling ironically did more to boost...more

Is Cheerleading a Sport?
by RunLikeAGirl
posted July 26, 2010 at 4:11pm

A Connecticut Federal Court judge ruled that cheerleading is not a sport, at least not as far as Title IX is concerned. Quinnipiac University pulled funding from its women's volleyball team to fund a competitive cheer team instead....more

espnW, cheerleading, violence, Nike, Title IX…so many things to share!
by One Sport Voice
posted July 22, 2010 at 4:27pm

Sorry if I’ve been blogging less lately, there are to many things going on to take the time to blog! That said, I wanted to share with you some information you might find interesting. 1. A key Title IX ruling was recently passed down that has implicati...more

Quinnipiac volleyball players win Title IX decision
by Title IX Blog
posted July 21, 2010 at 9:36pm

Today Judge Stefan Underhill granted Quinnipiac University volleyball players an injunction that will allow the team to exist through the 2010-11 season. In reaching this decision, the judge determined that Quinnipiac's decision to terminate the volleyb...more

Perspectives in QU/cheerleading
by Title IX Blog
posted June 26, 2010 at 12:23pm

Nothing major to report. I haven't seen any coverage of the closing arguments yet but if something of note occurs, we'll post about it.In reading some of the coverage that stemmed largely from Jeff Webb's testimony Tuesday about the legitimacy of cheerlea...more

The cheerleading as a sport debate continues
by Sports Girls Play
posted June 23, 2010 at 5:36pm

Cheerleading – and what it has evolved into – is on trial right now in a Connecticut courtroom. The debate revloves around a law suit brought on by the volleyball team at Quinnipiac University over the school’s decision to cut their team violated T...more

QU trial: Lopiano testifies
by Title IX Blog
posted June 23, 2010 at 1:13pm

So the Title IX Blog did indeed take a field trip to Connecticut yesterday to watch some of the Quinnipiac University trial. Erin will be posting about what we saw (because she took notes and I just sat there amazed at some of the things people say and th...more

Quinnipiac trial begins tomorrow
by Title IX Blog
posted June 20, 2010 at 11:04pm

The trial in the Quinnipiac University volleyball case begins tomorrow in federal court in Connecticut. There is nothing new to report since last month's decision to grant class-action status to the case being brought by five volleyball players.As a remin...more

Virginia schools consider competitive cheer
by Title IX Blog
posted February 24, 2010 at 1:25pm

A school superintendent in Virginia is urging his district and others in his region to consider altering cheerleading so that the opportunities it provides count as as athletic opportunities under Title IX. Girls receive proportionately fewer athletic o...more

Because cheerleaders make everything better
by After Atalanta
posted February 21, 2010 at 3:25pm

I don't know who the woman is who is doing all the commentary on curling (or at least on women's curling--I haven't watched much of the men's). But she's ridiculous. She's definitely a former player and sounds like a native English speaker but I am sensin...more

Settlement forthcoming in Canton case
by Title IX Blog
posted December 27, 2009 at 12:53pm

After turning down a settlement deal earlier this year, it seems the Canton School District in Illinois has reached an agreement with the plaintiffs. But no one is saying what that deal is--at least not until January 20, 2010 when it will be announced at ...more

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