Women in high school athletics aren’t as appreciated as one hoped it could be. A woman myself, being athlethic, is not as popularized if I were a male. According to an article in the New York Times, “it is simply less likely for students and fans to hear about what happened to a women’s team than a men’s team in the same sport” This is a prime example of a sexist, horrible, stereotype in today’s society which is not what it should be.
My cheerleading experience:
Let me tell you about a typical cheerleading practice that should be recognized rather than the football team’s normal routine. Our practices we first come in and set our things down and put on our cheer shoes. We warm up as a group,then we get in our chant lines to start practice. If we are joking around once we have to run back and forth to the wide walls in the weightroom. Then we try to get back on track and get in our chant lines and start over.
Our coach pulls her giant folder of all her chants and goes through them each by each and we have to be loud,be tight, with facial expressions,and pretend like we are at the game. In between she lets us get some water , then be right back in our chant lines before her countdown is done. Once she thinks we did enough chants, if we have time, we talk things out as a team about how the rest of practice schedule is going to be.We break it down and we all go home.
How women sports aren’t recognized:
While practicing is not as known, there is a greater matter at hand when it comes to showing up for cheerleading competitions. Often people associate cheerleading with football, but there is so much more to cheering than meets the eye. Students should go to cheerleading competitions like they would for football games.In society many people don’t popular cheerleading or their male sports
How I would improve:
A lot of people go and cheer on the following teams such as football,soccer,and basketball games. But what about the girls team?One way that I would suggest how to make women’s sports more recognizable is to avertize it so people could see it more.Put it on the announcements so people could come together and cheer on the girls team.
Therefore my opinion on women’s sports is not recognized then male sports.
Women should get noticed in every sport no matter what sport you are in,girls should get noticed just like the football team. In society it shows that people should appreciate our women teams.