Three cheers for all the cheerleaders.Fans are what make high school sports so special and cheerleaders certainly add to the atmosphere. There are two distinctly different types of cheerleading squads. The pep squad that cheers at the games and the competition squad that does exactly that competes. Often there are girls without the special gymnastic skills on the regular squad but they are not on the competition squad. So I guess everyone is right.

Maybe we can say the game squad is the spirit part of the concept and the competition team really must be athletes.

For educations sack I offer the following from a school cheerleading team's website: The following skills are the BASIC required skills for TRYING OUT for the squad.

1. standing tuck

2. toe touch back tuck

3. back handspring back tuck

4. round off back hand spring back tuck.

5. current squad member all have at least a half-twist in the round off back hand spring.

Now I am not an expert but that all sounds pretty athletic.

All that being said I opppose the little girls wearing the wore paint and sleasy clothes so I guess I am not on anybody's side completely. Know let's fight nice without the name calling.