It always seemed like that'd be a real good move to make if you were a straight guy (join the cheerleading squad.) You're still working out, only you're throwing tiny little cheerleaders around instead of weights, and you spend half the day with your hand up a cheerleader's skirt.

Not that I know this from experience, but I thought cheerleaders basically spent all their time worshipping the guys on the sports teams?

-Rudey

HAHA, Cashmoney you are too funny, but no I have never even heard of such a thing let alone watched it!! I think I would be creeped out if it was about a bunch of leering old men!!;)

For some reason, we seemed to have more majorettes or dance team members than cheerleaders - which is not to say we didn't have our share of cheerleaders, high school AND college!

I remember one very strange night when about eight of us got out our batons & started challenging each other with stunts in the formal living room (we had a REALLY high ceiling in there!).

PS. The husband is and ATO and was on the football and track teams all four years of college.

There was also a football player at Iowa State (who actually played, not just suited) while I was in school who was a pretty active AGR also.

As an undergraduate I found the general opinion among Greeks and GDIs alike was that cheerleaders were window dressing for the real teams. They tended to have exaggerated opinions of their place in the hierarchy of campus life and were, with few exceptions, the overly pretty types who spent so much time on their looks that it was painfully obvious that they had missed most of the intellectual experience of a university education.
During Law School they were irrelevent and those very few who made it into Law School quickly learned that their having been cheerleaders counted for less than nothing and reflected less than positively on their perceived intellectual capabilities.
The exceptions were great but very few in number.
Sorrority members tended to be of two basic types. The overly gushy little girl types who talked a great deal about hearts, flowers, and sisterhood, and the women who showed a mature appreciation of sisterhood and the standards and ideals upon which their organizations were founded without being painful about it. These latter ones were the campus leaders who went on to grad school, law or medical school, or got real jobs upon graduation.

I was never a cheerleader. Cheerleading isn't big in Canada. People joined the cheerleading squad if they needed an activity to do.

I was an athlete though.

I was a cheerleader in HS all four years... didn't get a chance to get into it in college sine one my alma mater is sadly lacking in the sports department to cheer for, and practice conflicted with meetings.

I was in the colorguard. Does that count for anything? :rolleyes:

Other than that, I was just a complete band nerd. Still am. I was drum major of my college marching band for three years. As for cheerleading, I never bothered with it, but several of my sisters are or were cheerleaders.

I used to be a cheerleader. My house had practically the whole dance team at one point.

There is one fraternity on campus with a significantly high number of male cheerleaders. It always makes people wonder...

Most of the cheerleaders here aren't Greek. The dance team is pretty heavily Greek, though -- I think half the girls are DGs and there's a smattering of other sororities too.


I wanted to be a cheerleader, but cheerleading at my high school was not a status sport -- they got made fun of pretty mercilessly. I played tennis and ran track and cross-country instead.

I quit cheerleading to play on 2 soccer teams instead of 1, does that count? :D

But in all seriousness, at Florida Tech, most of the cheerleaders are Alpha Phis. But we have a small squad, so that's part of it.

No kidding! Naturally I knew most of the girls on the dance team, and almost all of them were AXOs. This year was a good mix of every house except for Tri Delta.

I was captain of the dance team, 4 year member.

At my high school the dance and cheer teams both cheered--just dance team was more dances like USC song girls do and cheer were classic cheers but no stunts.

I cheered at my university for 2 years, then pledged Pi Phi my junior year.

All 4 of my daughters who are in college and Greek now cheered in high school. BlazerCheer cheered varsity at her university 3 years (and just graduated) and Baby Berry was asked to cheer JV at her university but didn't. Ballerina was on the university dance squad for 2 years.