America’s Most Dangerous Sport?
By Wyatt Earp | June 27, 2009
Stephanie, from Ole Miss
According to the brain surgeons at LiveScience, it’s cheerleading. Seriously.
Cheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps.
But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by far than other sports.
Researchers have long known how dangerous cheerleading is, but records were poorly kept until recently.
An update to the record-keeping system last year found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. (H/T – FOXNews)
In fairness, this may be a good thing. Lord knows I would have had better dating luck in high school if the cheerleaders couldn’t run away from me.
I’m just sayin’.
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