Pro Cheer League is billed as the first professional cheerleading league for athletes 18 and older designed to give cheerleaders the chance to keep competing after college.

Varsity Spirit is starting a professional cheerleading league that promises to pay athletes, joining the crowded niche sports market that already includes softball, volleyball, 3-on-3 basketball ...

In 2021, the International Olympic Committee recognized cheerleading as an official sport, but Webb says there was pushback. “They were reluctant to take it seriously first of all.

Cheerleading was officially recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee in 2021. Yet it was not one of the four new sports added for the recent 2024 Paris Olympics, nor will it be ...

Back in the 1800’s, men led cheers on the sidelines at games.Now, the vast majority of the 3.5 million U.S. youth in cheerleading are girls between the ages of 6-17. And the sport has evolved ...

Calling themselves "Cheer Re-Man's" -- a mash-up of "cheerleading" and "salaryman" -- the group, formed in 2023, is made up of alumni from the elite Waseda University's male cheerleading squad.