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It's funny, most of the obsessed cheer moms I know are either ex-supercheerleaders (like the one who wrote a university about her daughter's cheer skills when the girl was a high school freshman, girl ended up growing way too tall for their coed team btw) or uber-trashy women who probably desperately longed to be cheerleaders when they were in high school. The thing is that now cheering is a sport that requires considerable tumbling skills and cheerleaders aren't chosen by student body vote like they were back in the day. Soooo...you actually have all these awful moms who thought that putting their daughters through gymnastics for years to make sure they'd be high school cheerleaders someday would ensure that their daughters would be wildly popular.
These moms always seem to be shocked when their daughters are treated like any other athletes instead of campus queens. They're the ones who try to jack up the price of cheering by insisting that the girls buy matching warm-ups or expensive sets of poms or that the moms spring for a new $50 gift basket for every competition--hey, every cheerleader needs a zebra-striped, personalized basket with a set of zebra-themed accessories in it!
But I digress with my rant. It could be that Mom did feel left out of campus life back in the day and her sniezhana (look it up) is being prepped to do what she couldn't. If her daughter doesn't make it, Mom may very well feel like everything she's done for her child has come to naught.
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