People used to tell this group of 250-pound fathers from Maryland that there’s no way they could possibly complete a “basket toss ... legitimate cheerleading jumps, lifts, stunts, synchronized ...

Cheerleaders grounded: The high-flying basket toss has been officially tossed. Illinois high school administrators got together last month and banned the stunt, in which a cheerleader is tossed ...

"I loved cheerleading," says Rechelle Sneath. Sneath made the team at San Jose State University last fall, doing stunts like the basket toss, a routine millions of cheerleaders perform every day.

It’s because cheerleading increasingly requires complex – and dangerous – gymnastics stunts, said report ... perform such athletic feats as the basket toss, where a cheerleader is thrown ...

LEXINGTON – Kentucky’s 24-time national championship cheerleading program has been ... 75% of female team members performed the basket toss stunt in which they were thrown into the lake ...

USA Cheer, a sports governing body, describes “stunt” cheerleading as “one ... governing bodies for the sport began prohibiting the “basket toss” – when a cheerleader is launched ...