Chunky Cheerleaders
 

I know I'm in Canada now.. I was watching a replay of the Grey Cup parade on CBC today, and the Montreal Alouettes actually had a plus-sized cheerleader!

She wasn't huge or anything, probably no bigger than a size 12 or 14, but it was kind of amazing to see. I've never seen a big cheerleader for professional sports teams in the US.

It kind of made me feel good as a "chunky girl". ;)

Woohoo! Score one for us big gals. :)

I dont think Ive seen a bigger gal on a prefessional sports cheerleading squad but I know that Ive had many on my high school and all star squads growing up.


Nichole

That's because professional squads are usually overglorified beauty queens. I've seen a lot of heavier girls on high school squads and at camp - hell, I was one.

Score one for the big girls!!!

My school's cheerleaders are "chunky cheerleaders."

Hey, I say, if you have the talent and can do the moves the other women are required to do and look good shakin' your moneymaker, go for it!

:D

my high school had one. She usually was bad, but every year they took one chunkier girl just to say "hey not ALL of us having eating disorders)

but then again my high school had a really bad cheer team any way. They used to go to those summer camps, but they were to bad (never won anything) and had horrible attitudes the camps stopped inviting them.

Christia

P.S An Other point for the big girls! We rock!

Just goes to show that we little chubby girls ROCK!!!!!

I've never seen a "chunky cheerleader," not even at the high school level. That's great to hear that her talent/skills were not overlooked because of her weight.

One of my co-workers mentioned this last week... she was a cheerleader at her high school and she was saying her coaches were really strict... they'd do weigh-ins and you had to be under a certain weight.

My old coaches could never get away with this.

I was at least 30 pounds lighter when I was a cheerleader in HS, but there were at least 2 girls on my squad who were about 50-60 pounds heavier than me.

They ran as many laps as we did, went through conditioning, had perfect jumps, were fabulous at gymnastics....IMO, they were just as deserving for a spot on the squad just like the rest of us. It used to piss me off how people would snicker at the sight of them, but they were classy about it...and their hard work was noticed by everyone!

Oh goodness, did any of you have to do the fat pinch things in Jr. High?

I remember during physical fitness stuff, they'd to a fat pinch on our arms to see what our percent of body fat was. What's worse is they would do it in front of EVERYONE and announce loudly what your fat was. It used to horrify me.

Thank goodness they don't do that anymore, as my little sister now attends the same Jr. High.

We had a very chunky cheerleader in HS who was also NOT skilled at shaking her money maker. :p Oh, did I mention her dad was one of the phys ed coaches??

YUP. And every semester you had to be weighed, and same thing... your weight was called out to the student who was recording, who always seemed to be waaaaay across the room, making the teacher have to yell it out.

I count myself lucky that I wasn't the recipient of any of the ensuing giggling, but I do feel bad now that I perhaps was guilty of doing it. So to all of the self-conscious girls in my 7th and 8th grade gym... I'm sorry!! I was 13 and stupid!

...and then they wonder why little girls develop eating disorders.

aww man i remember standing there having to do all that stuff it was embarrasing escpecially since i'm not like the skinniest person and everyone else in my class was...no wonder i had esteem issues my first two yrs of high school lol

Oh Ginger, by the way that wasn't directed at you, but at the teachers in gym class. I had to do the same thing and it was horrible.

we have some cheerleaders who are plus-size
they don't have uniforms yet though

No worries :) I actually *had* an eating disorder at the time, so it was just as embarassing for me. :o Being told you're too thin to participate in gym class is pretty embarassing too.

My high school's cheerleaders were for the most part skinny, but flabby. (make sense???) We did have one "thick" girl and she could kick anyone's butt. She was about 5'0" and 150-160 but it was almost all muscle. The skinny girls were around 5'4" and 100 but when they jumped they jiggled. And don't get me started on how damn short their skirts were. No wonder I called them "The Buttcheek Brigade"
Here at Alabama our cheerleaders are pretty short (like me) but they are in shape and cute. The male cheerleaders are so cute too!:D