Sorority Girl = Cheerleader Stereotype
 

It seems to be a prevailing stereotype that women who join sororities are usually current or former cheerleaders. If that is actually the case, I guess I am an exception because I could never even do a cartwheel :D

So, who on GreekChat was a cheerleader in high school? How about college?


Edited 'cause I can't type today!

Captain of the dance team in HS.

For the most part, sorority girls are the girls that werent good enough to get on a cheerleading squad because they werent athletic enough. For the most part Athletes don't join GLOs. There are exceptions at certain schools.... such as Florida State. Coach Bowden is a Pike thus giving the chapter there the honor of having the most varsity athletes of any frat. Most Athletes could care less about joing a GLO because they know they'll have easy women, friends and money without having to be in a GLO. And yes, female athletes are just as bad-almost the same-as male athletes.

Most of the girls on the University's dance team were AZDs, and most of the girls on the cheerleading squad were from our rival sorority. Of course, there were a few girls on each who were in a different sorority or who weren't Greek at all.

All of the boys on the cheerleading squad were fraternity boys.

Hummmmmmmm......
 

I was a cheerleader for 6 years prior to joining a sorority.

Do you have any studies or stats to back this statement up? Ohhhh, who am I kidding?:rolleyes:

BTW, we had several cheerleaders in my sorority.

Yes, football and wrestling, but my high school was small, so you could do pretty much everything you wanted. I was also a band geek and a speech/drama nerd.

I turned to cheerleading after I learned I suck at basketball and volleyball (which is difficult when you're tall).

ETA: We had the majority of the Varsity Tennis squad in the house when I was an active. Plus a soccer player, softball player, Poms dancer and Varsity cheerleader. Not bad for a chapter of only 90 girls.

Translation: All the cheerleader boys were in fraternities to hide their homosexuality that they don't know exists within them.

I was cheerleader and a dancer back in the day. We had a bunch of girls in my chapter who were UCF cheerleaders, UCF dancers, Orlando Predators dancers, and Orlando Magic dancers.

Nerd, most athletes know what I said is true. Obviously you're not an athlete or played a lot of sports. Because if you did then you'd know that MOST athletes DO NOT JOIN GLOs! Even less athletes in the NCAA go Greek. Why may you ask? Because playing on a sports team is like being in a fraternity itself, only you don't have to pay money to be in it.....you just have to be good enough. This is why a lot of football players, basketball players and baseball players don't join GLOs.......they've already got their friends. Just because some people had some cheerleaders in their GLO does not mean that there is a prevailing stereotype that women who join sororities are usually current or former cheerleaders. If that were true...most of the girls during rush at UF wouldn't bitch about the heat and humidity and having to do all sorts of stuff while dealing with both.

I would agree w/ this. Another reason they don't join GLOs is simply b/c they don't have enough time. My secretary's son is on the football team at Elon, and although his dad was in a fraternity at Penn State, and his two sisters were both in sororities, he had the interest to go Greek, but just doesn't have the time.

I just have to say that I was a cheerleader back in high school and I also was on the track team as well as the cross country team. When I got to college I was also on the track team there as well, however I was only on the team for a year. College track and high school track are two different things, in college (at least for me) it was not as much fun. I hated getting up at 5 am to run five miles only to have to do it again that same day after class was over. Plus I did not like my coach hitting on me, it was a little too gross for me!!

Hahahaha......ever seen naughty america DVDs? :D

Yes - all through high school and college, while in a sorority. :)

Since I'm gonna dance like Usher, I need a girl that can appreciate my moves.

-Rudey

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.

That's interesting. My chapter had, still has, and always will have, the reputation of being the "jock" house. We get a lot of the soccer players, one year I think we had most of the team in our house.

We were popular with the women's crew team too when I was there.

I was on drill team for two years in HS.

That's very cool! Where did you go to school?

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school. A lot of the current chapter was involved in cheer in HS. But when I rushed, only a few were. Lots of other sports, but not so much dance/cheer.

/hijack

Elon University. I finished my senior season last fall. I cried while conducting the fight song for the last time :(

/end hijack

I never really have been a very peppy person. I played tennis in HS but was definitely not a cheerleader. Just wasn't my thing. However, several of my sisters were cheerleaders in HS or were on their school dance team. Several of them also do pageants and have for many years.

i played sports in high school, but not in college. we had a couple of cheerleaders or girls on the dance squad in my chapter, but that didnt last very long. there really isnt enough time to do both. my pledge sister that was a cheerleader left the chapter and the sister that danced quit that i think. i couldnt imagine having enough time in college to be in a sorority and on a varsity sport!! a lot of us girls did intramurals though if that counts!! i agree with cashmoney that people on the varsity teams dont really need greek life. they already have that sense of belonging with their team.

I started a crew team here while pledging and becoming active in my sorority...and being a double major double minor. The sorority definitely helped my time management skills. Thank god for having an understanding Pledge Mistress.

On the guys side of our team, last year, 3 out of our 5 guys were in the same fraternity. One of them left school, we got a new guy from Ohio State to row for us (we're a club team), and our Coxswain and Bowman pledged and were initiated. We have a boat full of Kingsmen! (and I wouldn't have it any other way...theyre all awesome).

KillarneyRose, I could never do a proper cartwheel either! So I wasn't a cheerleader, and my HS didn't have a dance team for sporting events, but we DID have a dance troupe, which I was in. We had a huge show every spring:) Gosh i loved my dance troupe, but I stopped dancing when I got to college:(

Pop Warner Cheerleader 1985-1993
Damien Memorial HS 1993 (our brother school)
St. Louis School 1994-1997 (another brother school)
University of Hawaii Warrior Dance Team 1997-2000

I pledged Alpha Gam my Junior Year.

I'm pretty sure I could have stayed a dancer till my eligibility was up and be a member. We'd perform at all football games in the Fall and basketball games in the Spring. We had fundraisers every other month so technically it was another sorority in itself, but I never really found it demanding because I had tons of fun. It's funny, we weren't associated with the cheerleaders or the Athletic Department. We were associated with the band. :rolleyes: True we didn't do flips and tumbling and stunts, but we still conditioned ourselves to the bone. It's a good thing we had partial tuition waivers.

I quit because all my close friends either graduated or left school and I couldn't stand the bitches that came in after that.

Then I found Alpha Gam. :)

Rowing is a different animal. You're hard pressed to find a college (esp. in D2 and D3 like Otterbein) that has varsity NCAA rowing. I'd venture to say that 70% or more teams out there are club teams, simply because of the way our season work and our racing is structured.