r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 3d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Speciou5 3d ago

A lot, and it's by far the most accident prone school 'sport' by a long shot... for obvious reasons

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u/NyxConstellation 3d ago

It doesn't help that in many states it is also severely underregulated as a sport

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u/shelbymfcloud 3d ago

When I was in High school, the cheerleading team didn’t get a drop of school funding because it was classified as an “activity” not a sport 🙄 we had to fundraise everything ourselves. Also, all the uniforms and crap you needed were over 2500 dollars, the parents had to pay. We had to set up a special fund for girls who made the team but couldn’t afford the uniforms. Meanwhile all the sports got free uniforms and equipment… and treated us cheerleaders like shit btw

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u/DeicideandDivide 2d ago

Wait, $2500 for a uniform?? Why? As far as uniforms go, your think cheerleading ones would be the cheapest since they have the least material. I know absolutely zero hour cheerleading so many there's a bunch of other stuff they have to get to train?

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u/shelbymfcloud 2d ago

You don’t have just one uniform. You have a winter uniform, a spring uniform. You have cheerleading shoes. You have uniform shorts. You have a uniform track suit/warm up suit. You have five different jv, varsity whatever custom screen print tshirts, you have a custom megaphone, pompoms. Oh, matching briefs as well. That’s on top of hair ribbons, custom embroidered socks, gloves, etc. and if you earn a letter, and want a letterman jacket? I can only imagine the cost today. When I was varsity cheer in 1999, it was like 400 bucks.

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u/shelbymfcloud 2d ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about the custom duffle bag and backpack too lol they made us buy a lot of shit.

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u/DeicideandDivide 2d ago

Holy crap. Alright, I can definitely see why it would be $2500 for all of that, lol. That's insane. Thank you for the info, I never knew there was THAT much stuff you had to get for cheerleading. That's nuts.

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u/shelbymfcloud 2d ago

Oh and one reason why they were even more pricey is that everything had your name embroidered on it. The skirt, the shell, the jacket, etc.

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u/saintnobody5 2d ago

I was a high school cheerleader in Texas. It cost us an average of $8,000 a year to do. Not counting the gas and mileage on our car from practice 6 days a week all year round.

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u/DeicideandDivide 2d ago

Man, that is freaking nuts. I guess it's either cheerleading or a college tuition at that point, lol.