Annual Report Names Cheerleading as Most Dangerous Sport for Female Athletes
Over the last 25 years, a single sport has been responsible for more than 2/3 of all catastrophic sports injuries to high school and college female athletes in the United States. That sport: cheerleading. The finding recently was published in the 25th Annual Report of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report sheds light on a danger that has largely gone unrecognized by many school districts, cheerleading coaches, parents and athletes alike.
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