Back again and I want to clear up some things. BAND IS NOT A SPORT! It is an art! Now even though they show some athletic moves on the sideline, cheerleading is not a sport! Competition cheerleading is a sport. In N.Va., a lot of girls compete on the cheerleading teams in competitions but they do not cheer on the sidelines because, and I quote, "there are too many girls on the sidelines and they are too ditzy!" All you coaches out there know that there is a difference between athletes and girls!
Now, I did not say that some cheerleaders were not athletic but on the sidelines, cheerleaders are not in a sport. Some of the guys that cheer (and should be on the football team my hairy knuckled self says) are just as strong as some of the linebackers on your high school teams and the girls are just as athletic as girls on a basketball team but it is not a sport until they compete against other schools.
Someone said that having a band gets you fired up. My friend if you are training since August, you look over across the field and you see someone that wants to rip your head off and you have to look in the stands and watch a band play to get fired up, you need to join the cheerleaders because that is what you are. A cheerleader!
In the four years I played I could not tell you one song the band played on the field but I do know they played the school song at pep ralleys. The bands work hard I guess sychronizing their moves, but being as athletic as a basketball, football, softball, volleyball player? Puuuhhhhhlllleeeeaaaassssss!!!!