Or if you are into chicks (not that there is anything wrong with that), they aren’t there either. Kids tend to congregate where most of the other kids are hangin’ out.
When I wuz a 3-year starter at PG about 120 lbs. ago in HS, we had a group of farmers that would come to the game as the rowdie rooters. They went to the games and screamed their fool heads off, and I loved it. Not sure why the girls cheering on the boys is any different.
Look I am the anti-russ in this case, my kids live on COD Modern Warfare, and they also play the macho team sports. In reality kids tend to go where their parents influence them so guilty as charged…. dad just doesn’t care about golf or tennis so the kids were never really exposed. (could we have lost the next Sampras?) Lacrosse, we didn’t mess with because rarely does a kid who hits the snot out of a baseball quit playing, but it’s a cool game too.
So yes I agree that if I had a daughter I’d probably be pushing something like softball/basketball not cheer. I just think these cheerleaders are getting a bum rap here. Sorry to the original poster, I seem to have hijacked… The competitive cheer squads are athletic as hell. How do we measure a great male athlete? Vertical leap, 40 times, how many times you can bench 225, what is your power clean, agility cone drills, etc.
I am guessing if you devised some kind of similar athletic test at the high school level I’d be willing to wager money on the competitive cheerleader over the most high school tennis players. Look at the legs, who do you think will squat or deadlift more? Now if you are talking about really pushing tennis, living at the club, using personal trainers and the whole prodigy thing, that’s different.
