Here is how an unplanned cheer path for George Jenkins senior Weatherholtz led to The Ledger's Competitor of the Year.

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...

WORTH COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) - In Worth County, this student-athlete is acing her tests and her cheerleading stunts. Junior Kendal Garwood is this week’s VSU Scholar Athlete. Not only does she cheer on ...

Jeff Webb is known as the "founder of modern cheerleading" for his role in turning it into a competitive sport. He died ...

Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's ...