NYCC - National Youth Cheerleading Certification

IRVINE, CA, June 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — The National Cheer Safety Foundation (NCSF) panel of experts, a collaborative effort of the nation’s top sports medicine and safety leaders are calling on Congress to review injury study findings in cheerleading and youth sports.

A new study released by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina explains that what all cheerleading organizations should do is realize that cheerleading has had injury related problems, and strict safety measures should be adopted to remedy the situation. While 54 million female athletes participated in high school sports between 1982 and 2008 sustaining 39 catastrophic injuries, during that same period cheerleading had 73.