UK cheerleaders wins 4th straight National Championship 24th overall #BBN
UK cheerleaders repeat as national champions
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Greatest team sports program of all time?
Absolutely insane how dominant they are.
Incredible, congratulations!!
Incredible, congratulations!!
Congrats to UK cheerleaders and I do consider them an athletic team. What they are able to do is very impressive and incredible.
That would be cool if it was an actual sport....
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It may not be a sport but I can assure you that they work really hard. Used to see them working out in the Seaton Center in the late '70's when Dean Williamson took over the program. A lot of really tough gymnastic moves that I'd never attempt.
Whether you really care or not, the overall atmospheres of games would certainly be different without them. The vast majority of programs just have their cheerleaders wave pompoms and large air horns or whatever you call them and then call it a day.
UK’s are different. The crazy flip routines at football games? Yeah that doesn’t happen just everywhere. The banner at the beginning of the last tv timeout is pretty cool as well among the other routines they do. They’ve ingrained themselves into the greatest tradition in college basketball, so I for one like seeing them dominate in their own way.
UK’s are different. The crazy flip routines at football games? Yeah that doesn’t happen just everywhere. The banner at the beginning of the last tv timeout is pretty cool as well among the other routines they do. They’ve ingrained themselves into the greatest tradition in college basketball, so I for one like seeing them dominate in their own way.
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First paragraph from their Wikipedia page. One can only agree....!
Representing the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, the UK squad has won the Universal Cheerleaders Association National College Cheerleading Championship an unprecedented twenty-four times, in 1985, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, more than any other Division 1A school. The University of Kentucky cheer squad is without question the best college cheer squad in the world.
Representing the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, the UK squad has won the Universal Cheerleaders Association National College Cheerleading Championship an unprecedented twenty-four times, in 1985, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, more than any other Division 1A school. The University of Kentucky cheer squad is without question the best college cheer squad in the world.
Did you watch the video of this year's routine?
Holy Cow! The dangerous and fearless way they fly, Barnum and Bailey would still be in business if he had hired our Squad!
Holy Cow! The dangerous and fearless way they fly, Barnum and Bailey would still be in business if he had hired our Squad!
What is a sport?
sport /spôrt/ noun 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
Sounds like a sport to me. My daughter is a cheerleader on a middle school team. She works as hard as kids in other sports do. They practice a few days a week (up to 4 when close to competitions) for 2 hours each time and she also goes to private tumbling classes. She is able to do a lot of the stuff that the female UK cheerleaders do with much less experience than they have. They just recently won a competition in Gatlinburg and will be competing at Disney World next month.
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Many Olympic events have judges to qualify winners.
Okay, last year at about this same time I was in that gym playing a volleyball tournament. I went to take a leak between games and ended up going the wrong way (didn't know where the bathroom was). I walked past an open door, looked inside and I could see the whole cheer team inside this auditorium. They just got done with a workout and wow. Okay, the ladies always look hot, we know that, but there were 4 or 5 dudes in there that looked like they could compete in bodybuilding competitions.
They obviously put in a ton of hard work to do what they do.
I'm not gay, but I walked past that room 3 times, they're an impressive group, that's for sure.
#don'tjudgeme
They obviously put in a ton of hard work to do what they do.
I'm not gay, but I walked past that room 3 times, they're an impressive group, that's for sure.
#don'tjudgeme
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They work extremely hard and it's not easy. For the most part, you're lifting your own body weight multiple times and combined with other movements such as jumping and running, it's a tough workout in itself.
Congrats to the squad for their run.
Wouldn't it be great to see that many banners for bball?
I use to make fun of male cheerleaders until I got to college and saw how ripped they were.....and the holds with the cheerleaders made me consider trying out!
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Smartest guys on the field, perhaps?
Idiotic statement. They are pure athletes that compete at the highest level of their sport. An impressive combination of strength, balance, and skill.
If you have ever seen the guys up close, you would be scared of them. Believe me.
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100% correct. I knew a guy in Engineering school in the late '70's that tried out and made it. He had been a linebacker for St. X in HS and was a good sized guy. Strong as an ox as well.
That dude there is as athletic as they come! Holy smoke! Call it sport, passtime, hobby, club whatever. But that dude there is an athlete! If an athlete is doin it then it sounds like a sport to me. Just my opinion though.
Congratulations Cats Cheer.
Morehead State Cheerleaders also won again in their Division. MSU has 45 total titles between all girls team and Coed since 1988.
Morehead State Cheerleaders also won again in their Division. MSU has 45 total titles between all girls team and Coed since 1988.
If I could go back to middle school, I’d try out and start working out. Do you see what these guys get to do??? Come on.
I'm going to assume this is a sarcastic reaction to it not being technically a "sport" in the eyes of universities. It's a club or extra-curricular, I don't know the exact terminology they use. Obviously it's a sport and maybe the best collective group of athletes on campus. But Cheerleading isn't a formal recognized sport by universities.
It may not be classified as a sport, but given what they are doing on the field, it's a sport in my eyes.
Congrats AGAIN UK Cheer team!!!! BBN is proud of you!!!!!!!!!
Congrats AGAIN UK Cheer team!!!! BBN is proud of you!!!!!!!!!
I didn't say it wasn't a sport. I said I had a hard time identifying with the validity of sports that use judges to determine the outcome. And there have certainly been some boxing results that didn't feel very valid.
I get what you are saying tho.
Winning 24 titles..........are we winning the titles because we are actually the best team in each of these competitions or are we winning because the judges are bias maybe because of our past success.
Prob not bias. But who knows lol
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