Wichita State University is offering new baseline seating at Shocker basketball games, a money-generating plan facing backlash due to the cost for the university’s cheer and dance teams.

Lane noted that UTPB is the only school around here that has a football team and has the sideline aspect of cheer and dance. “There’s other schools that just do competitive.

In an update Friday, the California Department of Public Health said that sideline cheer will now be allowed. The state has not yet changed its rules for bands and drumlines.

The cheer division included tumbling, non-tumbling and sideline cheer competition. The dance division included pom, jazz, hip-hop and high kick. Cheer results (full results available at ncacoach.org): ...

This is a big part of what defines cheerleading. However, we can still do individual tumbling and work on sideline cheers, jumps, motions and dance.” “The athletes are adjusting,” Pavone said.

The Portage Crew is a Kalamazoo-area group that serves cheerleaders from age four to 18, and provides six levels of teaching, according to Jami Bryan, the Portage Crew coach.