Comments on: Court: Cheerleading is a contact sport http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/01/28/court-cheerleading-is-a-contact-sport/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=court-cheerleading-is-a-contact-sport Jock Talk Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 16:53:31 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Sharon McEachern http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/01/28/court-cheerleading-is-a-contact-sport/comment-page-1/#comment-4159 Sharon McEachern Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:45:13 +0000 http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/?p=3857#comment-4159 Oh yes, it is a contact sport! For women in both high school and college , two-thirds of all severe sports injuries (from 1982 to 2007) were related to cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Read the national center's guidelines to help prevent cheerleading injuries at: http://www.ethicsoup.com/guidelines-to-help-prevent-cheerleading-injuries.html Oh yes, it is a contact sport! For women in both high school and college , two-thirds of all severe sports injuries (from 1982 to 2007) were related to cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Read the national center’s guidelines to help prevent cheerleading injuries at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/guidelines-to-help-prevent-cheerleading-injuries.html

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