"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Competitive events in the sport include tumbling and stunts such as pyramid and basket toss, which sounds, well, a lot like cheerleading. Two respected organizations, the Women's Sports Foundation ...