"Engaging images accompany information about cheerleading professionals. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Do you watch professional sports with one eye on the game, and the other on the beautiful, glamorous and energetic cheerleaders? If you picked up this book, then you dream of cheering on the sidelines at an NFL®, NBA®, or other professional-level sporting event. This book will break down the pro dance team audition process to give you the courage and confidence to show up on the day of auditions, as well as critical success tips to help you get selected.

Provides an in-depth look at cheer professionals, describes their activities, opportunities, skills, and demands, and profiles top pro squads.

Is Cheerleading a sport? The debate rages. One thing is for certain: the first sideline yell has evolved into a complex mix of cheers, dance, and athletics that can require the gymnastic skills of a Mary Lou Retton and the dancing moves of a Broadway show girl. This book explores this evolution.

Cheerleading professionals perform for thousands of fans. They often attend charity events. Many appear on television shows. Find out more in Professional Cheerleading, one of the titles in the Cheerleading series.

This text provides information and tips on how to become a professional cheerleader. Tryout tips from the experts ... actual current and former pro cheerleaders, coaches and industry stylists includes: what happens in a pro level cheerleading team tryout; how to dress for the big day; what the judges are looking for; professional makeup and hairstyling tips and techniques; how to take applicatin photos; how to present in interviews and on paper.

Hanson (American studies, U. of New Mexico) offers an broad overview of cheerleading and its place in American culture, looking at the cheerleader as a symbol invested with both negative and positive values. She touches on issues such as the social context of the institutionalization and adult control of cheerleading; the changing patterns of age, class, and gender of participants; and the development of cheerleading in professional sports in the 1960s. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

BE YOUR OWN PERSONAL CHEERLEADER! Dont we all wish for someone to be a part of our daily lives who is uncritical and enthusiastic, filled with unconditional love, support and unwavering belief in our talents and abilities? This someone would fully understand us and want only for us to reach our dreams of winning in this Game of Life. In An Enlightened Cheerleader: Volume 1, Wynne Lacey provides in-depth advice on how to connect to your own personal, inner cheerleader and also how to align with the Universes unconditional encouragement that we are all meant to receive. Wynne also covers how to: - Give yourself permission to be happy, even if it means taking a different road than what is socially accepted. - Find out how your brain doesnt always want you to be happy and what you can do to change your thinking. - Discover the laws of the universe that support you reaching your highest potential and how we are all meant to be our own personal cheerleaders. Wynne Laceys personal experiences as a professional sports dancer, director of dance teams, and certified life coach gives her a unique insight into the external appearance driven world of professional cheerleading. Her tireless research and personal soul-searching has helped her to create and present a simple Life Formula that will put you on the path to self-understanding and ultimately to self-mastery.

Perfect for both coaches and squad members from junior high to college level, this is a comprehensive development guide for skill-appropriate and safe instruction on all aspects of cheerleading. Photos.

Directed at future sports executives and sports managers, the book contains numerous case studies that allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to a sports-related ethical dispute. Unlike other texts that spend too much time discussing ethical theories, Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals addresses the important issues sports professionals may actually encounter during their career --Book Jacket.