1. Notes: 2 / 1 year ago  from infoneer-pulse
   Judge: Cheerleading not a college sport

   infoneer-pulse:

   Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women’s volleyball team.

   The volleyball players had sued Quinnipiac University after it announced last year that it would eliminate the team for budgetary reasons and replace it with a competitive cheer squad.

   The school contended the cheer squad keeps it in compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in athletics.

   “Competitive cheer may, some time in the future, qualify as a sport under Title IX,” U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill wrote in his decision. “Today, however, the activity is still too underdeveloped and disorganized to be treated as offering genuine varsity athletic participation opportunities for students.”

   » via Salon

    So, I guess cheerleading is not a sport?  There is gonna be some hating on this judge by a lot of cheerleaders.

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   1. newinbox reblogged this from infoneer-pulse and added:

      So, I guess cheerleading is not a sport? There is gonna be some hating on this judge by a lot of cheerleaders.

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