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[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Hypothetical. You’re short so I’m assuming that’s why they made you a “flyer”. Let’s say a girl 4’ 11” 310 pounds (big as hell, as in built like a deep freezer with eyelashes — 3 bills easy) showed up to tryouts and wanted to be a flyer, would y’all’s coach let her on the squad to be a flyer or would they discriminate? For real question Lol.

Oh wow, yeah, I mean… at 4’11” and 300 lbs? She wouldn’t be a flyer. I’m not trying to be mean at all, it’s just that physics doesn’t really allow for that? So like, the bases have to lift you overhead, hold you steady, sometimes with one hand, and toss you up. It really has to be safe for everyone. Know what I mean? At that weight and height, she’d be way stronger as a base or maybe a backspot, where stability and strength matter more. But flying? That’d be a no for safety reasons. And I’m not judging or anything like that, it’s just that at that weight it wouldn’t work for her.

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Pardon the crash, but I recall back in the day girls were most likely chosen to a cheer or pom squad for three reasons: looks; talent; and do we have a uniform that she'll fit into. Our school used the same uniforms year upon year, no girl ever kept her uniform.

If our school had two tall girl unis but three talented tall girls, the two tall girls with the higher tryout scores were typically admitted to the squad. Purchasing a new uni for the third talented tall girl would've been too expensive, and her uni would've looked different/better than the other old unis.

In your example, I see it as unlikely a squad would've had a uni to fit a girl.of the size you describe.

That was actually still kind of true when I was in school, probably even now. A lot of high school squads still reuse uniforms, and custom ones can be super expensive. So yeah, if someone doesn’t fit what they already have, it can sadly affect who makes the team. It’s not always fair, but budgets are real.

Oh, and some schools back then were more inclusive and would try to work around it, but not every program has the money or flexibility. So if a girl was like “4’11” and 300 lbs”, it wouldn’t just be about flying, I mean, they’d also have to figure out if they even could outfit her.

But honestly? — uniform fit was half the drama at tryouts every year though, lol. Like, seriously.