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All practices and tryouts will be held at Solomon Court (Cabot Gym)
Tryouts for the Football, Hockey and Basketball Cheerleading Squads
Anyone who is a student at Northeastern University can join the cheerleading team. Whether you are enrolled as an undergraduate, graduate or University College student, you may participate in Northeastern Cheerleading. At Northeastern, cheerleading is new […]

 
Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized routines made from elements of tumbling, dance, and stunting to cheer on sports teams at games and matches, or to compete at cheerleading competitions. The athlete involved is called a cheerleader. It is most common in North America, but has quickly spread elsewhere.

Cheerleading first started at Princeton University in the late 1880s with the crowd chant as a way to encourage school spirit at football games. A few years later, Princeton graduate Thomas Peebles introduced the idea of organized crowd chanting to the University of Minnesota in 1894, but it was not until 1898 that University of […]

 
In the 1980s, cheerleading teams not associated with schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge. All-star cheerleading involves a squad of anywhere between 5-50 females and/or males. The squad prepares year-round for many different competition appearances, but they only actually perform for up to 2½ minutes during their routines. The […]

The foremost competition for all-star cheerleading is the annual USASF World Championships held at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. Since its inception in 2004, teams must qualify for the event by finishing at or near the top at one of several qualifying competitions. US teams have won the vast majority of the […]

Athletes involved
Bases
Cheerleaders that stay on the ground providing the primary support for the flyer during a stunt. Bases make eye contact with each other throughout the stunt but also look at your flyer. Bases can be male or female. The bases are usually 2 females or 1 male.
Flyer
Person that is up in a stunt in […]

* Paula Abdul, Los Angeles Lakers, Van Nuys High School
* Christina Aguilera
* Klaudija Alasauskaite
* Kirstie Alley
* Jessica Asillo
* Ann-Margret
* John Curly Barrett
* Toni Basil
* Kim Basinger
* Halle Berry
* Sandra Bullock
* Ellen Burstyn
* George W. Bush, Phillips Academy
* Dyan Cannon
* Belinda Carlisle
* Charisma Carpenter, San Diego Chargers
* Dick Cavett
* Marilyn Chambers
* Cheer, Dorothy, Cheer!
* Thad Cochran
* […]

Cheerleading’s increasing popularity in recent decades has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies and television shows. The 2000 film Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheerleading squad, was a surprise hit, earned nearly $70 million and spawned two sequels. It was followed in 2001 by another teen cheerleading comedy, […]