Friday, August 22, 2008

Cheerleading is by far the most perilous sport for female athletes in high school and college


USA - Cheerleading is by far the most perilous sport for female athletes in high school and college, accounting for as much as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries over the past 25 years, according to a new report. Yet cheerleading remains one of the least-regulated sports, despite more than 95,000 high school girls and 2,000 boys signing up for spirit squads nationwide each year. New data from the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSI) catalogs 67 fatal or life-threatening injuries due to cheerleading since 1982. More... Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Go To Meeting