Cheerleading Accidents

In cheerleading there can be many accidents and injuries some more serious then others. There has been cheerleaders who have died from cheerleading. You can get hit in the chest the wrong way of fall out of the air and land on our head and break you re neck. But not all injuries in cheerleading result in death. There has been many knee, ankle, wrist, and back injuries. I myself tore my ACL from cheerleading, it happened just from cheering for so many years. It was the worse pain i have ever been in in my entire life. Some injuries can put you out of cheerleading forever but others you just have to take it easy for a could of weeks. You would have never thought of cheerleading being a reason someone could die but it is possible and a horrible thing. I know if i ever lost one of my team mates it would be devastating, it would be like loosing a sister. When your out on that mat you dont think about anything like that, when your up in the air getting thrown round the thought of you might die doesnt even cross your mind. It just happeneds all to fast and no one thinks twice about it. Even if its just a sprained ankle it hurts the team because thats one girl were out untill they get better and can come back.

Heres an article about a cheerleading injuries:
     
During the last 25 years cheerleading has accounted for 63 percent of all high school direct catastrophic injuries to female athletes and 56 percent at the college level, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury (NCCSI).  Cheerleading injuries continue to increase each year, in part because cheerleading has evolved into a high-risk activity.

i chose this aricle because it shows just how much cheerleading can impact someone and how often it happends.

I choose these pictures because it shows that we are like a family and we just like to have fun. Loosing one of us would be the hardest thing ever.