Cheerleaders Share Their Cheer Horror Stories

"Her chin had an indent from one of my brace brackets."
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[@monday.breakfast]

no one : kourtney’s tooth : ↪️

[@EmmaCutie]

Lol

[@ANNA-fg3rz]

😂😂

[@ysabellac.1309]

Noah Nussbaum kourtney kardashian

[@autiiiiii]

Noah Nussbaum people spell it with a k but alrighty

[@cams.girlfriend]

Noah Nussbaum sooo many people spell kourtney with a k but ok buddy

[@person6306]

i don’t know why but every time a cheerleader gets hurt they act so calm about it like they are like “ouch” but... like you just broke your wrist ???

[@kendallalmazan8954]

Person well for me my coach was intense and always yelled “I don’t do tears on my field” so if we were in pain she said to take two minutes and come back if we’re not dying 😅 but yea no I feel like it’s because we know to keep going, like if ur practicing for a routine, the routine doesn’t just stop cuz you’re hurt, you have to keep going till it’s over

[@veroniquecormier5077]

It's also a thing at competitions that if you get hurt, you have to keep doing the routine like nothing happened.

[@amayyuh]

Okay but this is kinda true because I broke my arm doing a 360 stunt (I’m the flyer) and I didn’t even cry and I actually did the stunt again and went to the hospital AFTER practice lmao

[@person6306]

a year or two ago this flyer on my team was trying a new stunt and ended up ripping muscles in her stomach and kept going even though it was just a *practice* !! and didn’t say anything but 2 days later she went to the hospital and was out for the season because of how bad the damage was like cheerleaders really don’t stop for anything and it low key scares me

[@annelisegeorge7038]

I’m a competitive cheerleader and we get hurt much more than school cheerleaders and it is much harder but anyways the reason why we act so calm when we get hurt because we get hurt like 2 time a practice weather it it is getting hit in the nose getting healed in the eye which hurts or going to do a full setting up and coming down strait on you neck is all and we just get used to it

[@lockheart619]

This adds weight to the debate that cheerleading is a sport. They compete, they throw bodies in the air, they bloody each other up...it's a complete workout.

[@samijackson5007]

lock heart this video adds nothing. Cheerleaders have been doing this for a loooong time. People just refuse to see it. Plus most of the girls in this are talking about drama stories that feed into the stereotypes. A lot of squads work really hard, but people don’t wanna see it.

[@iknowyoureright5142]

Sami Jackson lol sideline cheer is not a sport. competition cheer is a sport

[@samijackson5007]

A lot of high school squads compete. Most may not be at the same level as strictly competition teams, but they still compete. Putting them in the group of a “sport”. & Not sure why you replied to just me but ok.

[@jens7833]

lock heart if cheerleading isn’t sport then what is dance

[@Anna-pp9ql]

Just because it’s a workout doesn’t make it a sport

[@JL-ut4md]

i lowkey thought she was holding a chicken nugget

[@celaya-s4e151]

I ONLY CLICKED ON THIS VID TO FIND THIS COMMENT. Glad I wasn't the only one lmao

[@yourbooaddieperiodttt5705]

Lmaoooo I just made that same comment and I was like wait I bet someone already made it

[@mayralopez6445]

I Also thought the same

[@fadilm6489]

Same

[@emowa2202]

hella crispy

[@elijahgarza9770]

Horror stories are hands down my favorite

[@juliannaevans7945]

Elijah Garza me too!

[@gabriellaradle2614]

Same

[@yenajuhl4552]

DEFINITELY!

[@ariavlc]

i’m a cheerleader and literally cracked my head open after falling from a stunt 😀

[@randomperson-cm7vu]

How u okay

[@juvariyahshere4552]

please don't take this in the wrong way but How are you like not dead?

[@wj3309]

Oh my god- are you okey now?

[@icedcoffee4453]

Omg, I hope you're okay now and didn't suffer any long lasting effects. That's horrible.

[@haleyann4661]

Oh

[@HollehMae]

This is why cheer is a sport, not just girls milling around in a skirt shouting “go team go!” It’s honestly one of the most taxing sports I’ve personally ever done.

[@johnrife7134]

You haven't seen bring it on have you?

[@HollehMae]

John Rife maybe 😏

[@elzyanne7304]

HollehMae I just had a daughter and I can’t wait until she can start cheerleading 🥴😁

[@HollehMae]

Elzy Anne I bet you’re counting down the days!! Congratulations!

[@elzyanne7304]

HollehMae definitely am! Lol just about 3 years to go 😂

[@cheerfulsatanist]

Is it just me or is there always that *one* "team building" exercise that feels like it was created strictly to traumatize you somehow?

[@dawnj2360]

The one with the socks sounds like a good way to get warts.

[@isobeldevlin4952]

Ok but being a cheerleader must be *so* hard tbh

[@blondestbrunette5778]

Sideline cheer is not. But regular cheer is :(

[@kierstenvlogs1811]

isobel devlin cheer is hard no matter what it is

[@chelseaagyei3409]

BlondestBrunette gotta disagree i just made the sideline cheer team and i have to learn 70 cheers 😳

[@kierstenvlogs1811]

BlondestBrunette for me it hard because we do advanced stuff for are sideline cheers

[@Hannahmakesvids]

it is 😩

[@yas4346]

The nose accident That is the perfect example of the evil eye

[@elzyanne7304]

😂

[@jennyhutch3165]

I have never heard someone call a prep an “elevator”

[@mrsivins072410]

Jenny Hutchinson I heard them referred to as elevators in the 90s. My team called them half extensions.

[@kennedyann]

My flyer calls them elevators since that’s what her old coach in jr high called them

[@bonsoir4133]

Yea we call em prep I was so confused at first

[@calleighmonton8464]

Bro we call them halves and fully extended is a full, a pocket / prep for me is where the flyers foot is just above my waist.

[@goaway2495]

we call it elevator in new zealand

[@ruchika1132]

Can we have Mortician Horror stories..

[@natalieshepp641]

Yes!!

[@elisathurston2844]

It better just be a bunch of stories of dead people waking up or I’m out

[@robertthe3rd673]

Imagine a mortician being like "I dropped something in someone...and I never found it?

[@lithyak515]

Yaaaaassssss

[@kaitenvonbitchguru3600]

I think Ask a Mortician (a youtube channel with lovely Caitlin Doughty) takes care of those needs.

[@natibobatic6560]

My bases dropped me on the basketball floor and their excuse was “I’m tired”

[@hiworldiexist]

That’s the issue with being the flyer, bases will be hating on you and will happily drop you, on purpose.

[@natibobatic6560]

Hi World, I Exist one of my bases said I was heavy to carry then once I changed to tumbler the girl who got my stunt group they dropped her on her back the backspot and one of the bases tried to catch her but the one that called me heavy her and her mother got mad at the flyer for getting dirt on her skirt

[@katherineislora3266]

Natibobati C Wassup This is Katie. 😂 That sounds like it’s gotta hurt.

[@natibobatic6560]

I’m Peridot Yah CLOD! IT DID

[@katherineislora3266]

Natibobati C Bet it did.

[@emo.randomnesss728]

We need a “swimmers share their swim horror stories” !!!!!!

[@uwutrash3532]

Emo.Randomnesss yessssssss

[@user-my8uf1yh5m]

Oh God I have a few

[@lin-gx1lp]

When I did swim practice it was with a bunch of old ladies that couldn't swim/were scared of swimming and it was always so awkward..

[@natalie9903]

i have a lot

[@delaneyparke110]

Ooh I have one... First day I ever got my period it was the last meet of season (this was on my summer team not my year round one) I barely noticed it in the morning and I thought I could get away with it. Nope. No one told me and I didn't realize it leaked allll the way through my suit (the suit was light green) until I got home. That day I was just swimming free and breast so in warmups when I was swimming breast anyone who was behind me could see it very well And STILL no one told me aaaaaugh but luckily I could go home and never have to look them in the face til next year lol Ahh swim team... Good times 😂

[@Fangirlfit]

10 bucks says Vanessa’s “friend” works for an MLM now...

[@cheerfulsatanist]

Honestly that sucks, so many girls who cheered are in those now. I think they target girls in dance or cheer because they assume they're more charismatic (sorta true I guess) and they'll have a big "network" of friends aka team mates so they're good targets for that nonsense. I know a lot of sorority girls do them too, same reasons.

[@PiggyLivi]

What is mlm?

[@froggy5828]

@@PiggyLivi multi level marketing

[@emileedavis6234]

What’s MLM

[@kenniikarkalicious]

At first I thought you meant man loves man when you said MLM 😂 that's what being on lgbt twitter and tumblr does to a guy

[@heart-pop8023]

My cheer horror story: We were doing this routine when you had to kick your legs up near your face and this one girl kicked her leg really close to her head so she got unbalanced and fell on her back and she couldnt breathe and the paramedics had to come it was very scary

[@EmmaCutie]

I just saw this in my recommendations and just pressed it, it turns out it was posted 1 minute ago

[@insertrandomusername3402]

Grover Bowie SHUT UP SCAMMER

[@msvideos234]

There's something very fishy about second girl's story. We definitely need the friend's version.

[@abbycurtis1768]

guacamole i’ve had times on my old cheer team one girl did not like me so she constantly dropped me. Even at competition. She was that petty.

[@cheerfulsatanist]

Honestly every squad has stories like this, once u graduate it just becomes a crazy story with different blame at pov. At the time it's intense but a few years later it's just a whacky story.

[@evelyn-ks2gk]

@@abbycurtis1768 on my team, if you drop a flyer you have to do a ton of conditioning so it prevents that from happening. I'm sorry that that happened to u though :-(

[@sarah.burns04]

@@evelyn-ks2gk same here

[@xygzhou4463]

eve x. I hope it was the case so we can get more strength. We dropped a flyer once partially because the flyer was not fully recovered from a broken leg at that moment, plus we received almost no training, our coach was a cheerleader’s mom, she taught nothing but silently watched and was ridiculously racist to non-white cheerleaders in the group. I have such a bad memory in cheerleader. I quitted one year later and at the same time the coach was fired.

[@ps1hagrid964]

*AUTOPSY HORRER STORIES* *SERGEUON HORRER STORIES* *MORTICTIAN HORRER STORIES* yea im dark

[@ArisuWaShindeIru]

I want to hear these so badly

[@mantisbabey]

Don’t get mad, just trying to be helpful, it’s actually surgeon. Again don’t get mad, now you know not to make the same mistake again. :)

[@scarlet6177]

M.C. _ same with horror :)

[@chloe5196]

supercool_ me for so basically forensic pathologist’s horror story?....

[@Lanhua.v]

Guys look at me I’m sO eDgY because I’m interested in stories about blood and DEATH Good lord I thought we left this in 2010

[@alejandrobobbarragan4368]

We need all star cheerleaders instead because they are more intense

[@cheerfulsatanist]

But then they'd have to take it seriously as a sport...

[@catalina7968]

all star is way more serious???

[@shannon81726]

v m it is more intense and we have more injuries you just have to keep performing because you need to be on the floor

[@estellamccaffery]

ikr

[@bumbaclott5732]

Sideline competitive cheer is equally a sport. Sometimes it's a little morre dangerous because at games we dont stunt with mats but we're doing elite stunts 🤸🏾‍♀️

[@Sebadoh1994]

I was a cheerleader in high school and still one in college, but I will never go out to be a professional cheerleader bc of the way they are treated. It's awful. But cheerleading is a HUGE sport to get hurt and have terrible things happen. The uniforms just get smaller in college too lol

[@Lauren_C]

Appears to be quite a bit more dangerous than the sports they're cheerleading for, and with a heck of a lot less protection. Granted, lifting a girl in full football gear is probably a tad on the ambitious side, I would like some Fs given for safety in regards to the uniform.

[@Sebadoh1994]

Lauren C me too man, seriously

[@valeriegrillo6818]

Professional cheerleader,is so hard.The coaches can be nice but can also be so cruel about you’re weight because the uniforms show you’re stomach.

[@emilyt2046]

We love buzzfeed not even using all star cheerleaders, even the photos

[@helolange1132]

Ya'll should have gotten one more person who has been on a Worlds team tho that would be interesting

[@hiworldiexist]

YES👏👏👏 Edit: but from one of the good teams though, maybe like Black Ops or Reckless

[@kyraghilas3789]

I once had a flyer try to jump out of my arms and when she came down she elbowed me so hard in the throat my trachea was bruised and I couldn’t talk for a week

[@user_8983]

Video: tells dramatic cheer stories Comments: cHiCkEn NuGgEtS

[@krystalfloods6197]

At the end of my junior year in high school right before the seniors graduated, my friend and I were a part of the graduation ceremony and one of the seniors that was a cheerleader have been practicing at Fresno state, where she was going to go for school and to continue cheerleading, she had some for the accident and broke her neck, during training, she recorded a video of herself in the hospital with her braces on and everything she couldn’t move, I always wonder what happened to her after that

[@sadderdxys3725]

The girl with the curly hair seems like she was the most popular girl in high school

[@avam7050]

Imagine if the girl who dropped Vanessa saw this video and commented

[@katenewberry7017]

Spenser looks *so* much like Brie Larson!

[@kaylee9256]

Kate Newberry lol I had to look at the thumbnail again because i thought the same exact thing

[@katenewberry7017]

Kaylee yeah ikr! I did the same thing

[@shaylin3515]

LOVE these horror stories lately!!

[@madd.13]

so two years ago i was on a level 2 competition team and we went to our last, biggest competition. the best team we went against had about twice the amount of girls (but was in our division for some reason). so we go and do good. better than the other teams ahead of us. this team was last and they were right after us. we watch them and one girl just runs off stage crying. the thing keeps going until they get to one stunt. then the music stops and they go off stage. later, before awards, they get to go again, but instead of the girl, they use a better girl from their level 3 team (which is illegal) and they go and do good. we’re like “eh, that won’t count because the team forfeited (which is what happens when someone runs off stage)” but we do awards. and we see them bring out the prizes (cheer bags). the other teams were announced and it was us vs the other team for 2nd and 1st. we see the first place cheer bags walked out and there are so. many. they won first. and it was very unfair. our coach called them the next year when i was on level 3 and the other team did like 10 of the same illegal trick and we were like “they can’t win that’s obviously illegal” but they won. and so the judges watched the video and said “wE DiDn’T sEe iT” and so now my gym doesn’t compete with that company anymore. (btw our prizes for those comps were puny little bows next to the unfair 1st places big bows and etc.) so... frick you victory cheer comps.

[@nathaliec8853]

I was kicked in the face plenty of times, ahhh the joys of cheerleading

[@audreybryant3047]

The one with the cradle and braces to the chin happened to me a few weeks ago with a more complicated stunt so now i have a scar there. i felt her pain haha.

[@meghan-daisywhite-romeo5306]

Audrey Bryant this happens to our babies all the time just practice your stance and trust your team

[@samijackson5007]

It’s all about keeping your core strong & preparing for the come down

[@annabella5069]

I’m a cheerleader and one time in a elevator we were getting ready to cradle. My other base threw before the backspot said anything so our flyer was thrown at me and when she hit me on the way down she landed on my shoulder and completely dislocated it to a point were I had no clue it happened.

[@alinathun4001]

When they all only did high school cheer and all start is 10 times harder

[@ang8568]

Alina Thun ehhhh highschool cheer can be hard, we go to nationals and our routine is hhhhard 😭

[@meganwalsh228]

i’ve gotten hurt in both but hs usually has less technique and less safety and funnier/weirder stories

[@blondestbrunette5778]

Lol the nose breaking is a mood. I had a girl step on my neck coming from a liberty (a stunt where both bases and back support a flyer who stands on one leg on their palms)

[@miuiminami4428]

And this video destroyed all my intentions of joining the cheerleading team.

[@marissadesimone4258]

i’ve dropped a girl, i’ve been elbowed in the face, i’ve fallen. it’s tragic

[@killerkale8047]

I live for these... especially the cheer camp ones. I love cheer camp so much

[@carolinebezner]

i used to cheer And i was really good, being on a team with 16 years olds at age 10. then one day i was practicing tumbling and when i landed my back spring tuck i twisted my ankle. i came back a couple of weeks later after it had healed, and it got hurt again, and again, and again. i kept trying to come back to cheer but my ankle kept keeping me back!! now my bone is very weak and u can’t do any high impact sports anymore. sad story i know.

[@melodiq7168]

caroline bezner kind of sounds fake. in cheer you can only be with ages 2 higher or lower.

[@rongzhou5155]

Lol the ankle thing happened to me too!!! I was in a cast for 8 weeks after one fracture.

[@sophiepell6254]

That doesn’t sound real

[@shelbyb9965]

Yeah Imma call BS on that one. Never in my life have I heard of an elementary school student cheering with high schoolers. It's not a thing. There's no way a kid's dexterity is developed enough to be on the same level as someone who's nearly an adult. And how weird would it look to have one person who's like two feet shorter and obviously a child with a bunch of 16 year olds.

[@luharrell1]

Here’s my horror stories: In one of our stunt groups they were doing a a dismount where the flyer does a T motion with her arms and the bases catch her on her stomach, and they weren’t together and her face went forward and hit the mat and she broke her jaw. Another one was when I was a little bit younger and we were stretching and the coach told me to come here and I had forgotten bloomers and I remember crying and everyone was starring.

[@eviethomas1093]

Love these vids xx

[@potatosoysauce9485]

cheerleaders are so calm

[@adiposeNarnian]

I love Vanessa's whole aesthetic/energy.

[@scarletwolf21]

Similarly to the last story: my sister was a flyer in middle school and her bases were afraid of catching her so they threw her up and then stepped back so no one but the coach was able to catch her. I have also had my fair share of getting kicked in the face/nose/teeth etc.

[@suchitra2422]

i got into that "kiss of death" once...only difference was i ended up fracturing my nose

[@ariannaconway7356]

I thought these where going to be better. I have a really sad cheer horror story. But I loved seeing so many cheerleaders from buzz feed

[@lenagrows_8971]

People dont seem to understand just how late at night and often and hard cheerleaders practice. They have to be like so dedicated I admire them

[@annasteele5494]

Do Marching band or colorguard horror stories

[@1000nipples]

yes!!!

[@Destinebigz]

YESSS COLORGUARD

[@onekidoneworld2262]

Yes!

[@raccoon404x7]

Marching band horror stories are 25% colorguard involved hahaha

[@shailaadia974]

raccoon404 X it’s always an instrument player saying they got hit with a flag, rifle, or sabre😂😂 or a guard/percussion issue

[@NicoleFoti]

Ahhhh I never made the cheerleading squad and am not sad about it right now haha

[@recoil53]

Who needs a broken wrist because the wrong guy likes you?

[@danielalizcano6648]

6;48 this is incredibly common, my coach told us about it before learning how to catch in a cradle

[@eviltwin1163]

I flinched so hard about the girls teeth being kicked in on accident 🥺😬 Cheerleading is such a physical sport, I hate when people claim it's not. It takes alot of work and trust to be one. Especially being thrown in the air and holding people.

[@Taylorhershy]

I have so many cheerleading horror stories that I could go on for hours with lol it’s a very dangerous sport

[@hannahstrobel3061]

I hate how much Spenser looks like Brie Larson it’s not okay like how is she so pretty

[@alyssamendoza6152]

I got knee’d in the lady bits from my tallest friend on my college cheer team😂 gotta love cheer injuries!

[@simsapalis9101]

5:55 AHAHAHHAHA OMG I swear if this happened to me I would cry and lay in my bed for weeks

[@curlyandcute3186]

I’m a flyer and hearing all of this is making me scared

[@juviafullbuster609]

Oh boy have I got so many stories. I’ve been cheering for my high school for 3 years now, and this year, we got a new sponsor. This woman has no idea what she’s doing, and used to cheer back in the 70’s, so we do everything like they did back then. The sponsor doesn’t sit down on the track with us, she sits in the bleachers with a stupid whiteboard and points frantically at the damn thing every times she wants us to do something. And almost every time, it’s the wrong thing. Then her husband tells her we screwed up (because of her whiteboard) and she yells at us to “pay attention to the game” and by that, she actually means “obey the holy whiteboard, it’s word is law, and if it says the wrong thing, that’s your fault” God, that woman is so stupid🤬😡and I’ve heard our poor captains have it so much worse

[@laurenrichardson2829]

this totally brought me to awkward middle school moments. Wow never again

[@lamarashton]

My absolute worst cheer story was in middle school trying ground ups to heel stretch. I was second base at the time and my top kicked too soon and kicked full force into my mouth. I had braces at the time and I had to pick my skin from my braces. The following week I was due to have my braces removed and I had a two inch long ulcer from the injury while the orthodontist pried in my mouth for hours. Just terrible. I also rolled my ankle the night before leaving for Nationals and sprained it SO bad, but I still competed. My couch had it wrapped super well, I sat in ice water when I wasn't practicing, I had to be wheelchaired around to reduce any strain on it. Then during prelims my friend accidentally tripped me on my bad ankle and I almost screamed but held it together until we got off stage. I broke down in full on sobs and my coach carried me to the stands. Later that day I still competed in finals and we did pretty well, but I had to explore the Disney parks in a wheelchair!

[@bricole4093]

Has that ever happened in the basket toss and you know your bases are gonna drop you so you pray that they catch you and you get dropped anyway.

[@SainttSarahh]

We need a coaches one, I volunteer myself 🙋🏽‍♀️

[@lu8201]

My fav series.

[@noahmerriott9447]

You should do all star cheer version

[@Savannah-fn3zy]

They deep fried big bird from Sesame Street and stuck him in the thumb nail lmao

[@mayabenyaminov5996]

Ok but like the girl in the thumbnail looked like she was holding a huge chicken nuget

[@keiiiraxo__500]

Now I’m terrified of basing 😂👌

[@raygan5466]

I’m a cheerleader and we did this thing at half time when my BF was on the fb team and me and this other girl had to do a Ariel then a triple back handspring tuck and a back flip well I did it all and was happy but when I landed my back flip I heard my ankle crack but I didn’t think anything of it so I kept cheering for 1 hour until the game was over at this point my ankle was bruised and swollen and stuff well I was going home with my bf and his younger brother was like sis ( me and my bf have been dating since 6th grade we graduated 3 years ago so his brother calls me his sister) you need to go to the hospital it looks broke I was like nah I’ll be ok and my bf was like no we need to go so we did turns out it was fractured pretty bad... they don’t know how I kept cheering but it’s a passion of mine so I toughed it out.. it hurt pretty bad though ngl... if you are a cheerleader and you fall during a game or something please please please tell your coach if it hurts or you can really hurt yourself luckily I didn’t

[@YaGirlT44]

Vanessa’s first story is what I’m scared will happen with my little sister 😣😣

[@Litsune_Kitsune]

I need a cheerleader just to get out of my bed In the morning tbh

[@stxphany375]

"And when I found out it was deliberate" ↪️

[@dianapalacios3122]

I was a three sport athlete in high school, and my senior year i decided to skip volleyball and do cheer... OMG 😲, that was the ONLY conditioning that left me in tears😭and unable to move for DAYS!

[@moonlightbabe7918]

If you had to put on all the girls socks how do they remember which ones were theirs?

[@marchdelgado6699]

Lol I'm watching this when I have comp tommorow. 😂

[@sadietaylorsversion13]

Already broken two teeth, gotten a concussion, broke three fingers, and fractured my ankle and I’ve only been cheering for three years.

[@hannahkeyes9452]

im a senior in high school, and ive been cheering since i was in 8th grade. and i cant tell you how many concussions, knee injuries, and broken bones ive had

[@blossom-kate9699]

i hate teeth injuries, it just makes me squirm 🥴

[@thatonecreepydoll5527]

This is why im a band nerd😅🤣👌🏻

[@stargazer6097]

I'm both!

[@eternitysafro1083]

FINALLY I VIDEO I FEEL! GONNA TRY OUT FOR SENIOR YEAR BECAUSE I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO IT, BUT I WAS SHY.

[@yes8051]

Im so happy my school doesn't have cheer , it seems hella scary to me and hella dangerous , esp if there's drama in the cheer squad :(

[@elvinabarremaecker9805]

I like these videos XD

[@kaleyalap6138]

is it just me or are all cheerleaders cursed? my friend once said “i’ve never broken a bone before”, and that day she shattered her wrist and forearm in a shoulderstand

[@Unknown-yo7cz]

It's not cursed, it's just hard, but a shoulderstand though?

[@anex9874]

I remember when i wanted to be a cheerleader but sadly cheerleading is very rare where i live, but im glad i didnt have to go through any similar experiences to these

[@ppermoons]

Spenser's makeup looks so bomb

[@GraceeJade]

hearing the one girl call a prep an elevator really threw me off. do people actually call it that?

[@emmad5201]

Gracee Jade yeah in Michigan that’s what we call it😂

[@joowelter]

I feel the pain😂 as a backstop, my flyer once fell onto my head from extension #concussionfordays 🤭

[@meghan-daisywhite-romeo5306]

Jo Welter I feel your pain . I literally shivered , ever ran from an extension catch. I didn’t even feel bad 😂😂

[@emmakendrick5576]

omg i did a cheer camp last year and UCA was also in charge ofc it was not super advanced considering im in middle school but it was so fun.

[@emilyantognoli]

It’s a tradition for our cheer team for the seniors to prank the freshman the second night at UCA camp. I remember freshman year the seniors hid an open can of tuna under my best friends bed and every time they got rid of it they put another can under until the end of the week

[@maddieb3061]

THE THIRD GIRLS TEETH THOOOOOO

[@bipolarbear3487]

Lol I thought the pom poms in the thumbnail were a giant chicken nugget

[@kyliea7610]

(i’m back spot and side) one of my cheer stories were when the flyer was in the air and as the our base caught the flyer and the other bases tooth went into the flyers ear and still to this day she has a scar on her ear where the tooth was.

[@gabby-by5mq]

i cheered for 13 years, the horror story that sticks with me was during my sophomore year of high school. my older sister and i were on the competition team and my sister’s stunt group was practicing twist cradles out of scorpions. as the flyer begins her twist she kept her elbows out and elbowed my sister (being the main base) in the temple. blood was everywhere but luckily our coach was also an EMT so he had all the right supplies. my sister coaches now and to this day is so adamant about telling her flyers to twist cleanly lol

[@samaaalbaik]

The blonde girl with the tiger print shirt is literally piper Chapman

[@annavannerus2614]

Hot Cheetos noooo smh

[@samaaalbaik]

@@annavannerus2614 yoo yes she iss

[@annavannerus2614]

Hot Cheetos no way!!

[@kbailey19801]

My friend broke her neck she's still in a brace thing

[@hanscapon222]

My sister has been a cheerleader for I think 2 years? So one time I was watching her routine at the school in front of the entire school and they do one of those flip things where they're like in a pyramid and the top person flips off. The girl at the top goes to do the flip and lands on her feet but both of them go sideways at the same time and talking to my sister afterwards she said that she could hear the crack. The girl continues doing the rest of the routine and only goes to the doctor after the game. She broke both her ankles.

[@khushisrivastav7016]

Here I am binge watching all these horror stories and the next horror story is gonna be my result marksheet 😳

[@carahelena5697]

double spin cradles aren't illegal. they're level 4 tho

[@snowgurbb2816]

Cara 2 i have been looking for this comment

[@katiecontois4734]

they're illegal in high school cheer

[@ang8568]

This one girl got hit and her tooth went through her chin and she had to get stitches 😭

[@user-tx6rv6kt8k]

You guys should do this again but with all star cheerleaders !!!

[@taylorhunt8800]

I watched this while getting ready to cheer at a game