Strapped to a backboard, 14-year-old Chelsea Clocker watched the ceiling lights of the gymnasium blur by as the medics rolled her out to an awaiting ambulance. A stunt she and other members of the ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...

With the help of the National Administration of Cheer Coaches and Administrators, a Pacific 10 Conference committee recently placed drastic restrictions on cheerleading stunts nationwide to prevent ...

A Pacific 10 Conference committee and the National Administration of Cheer Coaches and Administrators recently put new restrictions on cheerleading stunts nationwide for the 2006-2007 school year to ...

Britt Hertz performs difficult cheerleading stunts in alternating extreme temperature environments.

Newsday's 2026 All-Long Island cheerleading team. Back row, from left: Jasmin Lawrence, Kaitlyn Lieberman, Alex Cerna, Ian ...