Okay, so at an Orlando Magic game they have this group called their stunt team.(it's coed) Mainly made up of college/ex-college cheerleaders. During one of the timeouts they went out, did some tumbling, basket tosses, and then at the end were doing a 2-2-1 if I'm not mistaken...I was actually at this game so obviously I paid attention to everything they did! On one side, the guy tossed the girl to a shoulder stand, she was unstable, so she came back down. Then when trying to get her back up they was confusion with both trying to go at different times. However, once she was back up, the guy spotting in the back leaves to go do his stunt, she was still unstable and that's when she fell. She fell backwards and hit the upper part of her back. Her partner couldn't catch her due to the way she fell, there were no mats, and no spotter.
So this brings us to Florida.....
Due to this accident UF decided to ground their team, and it was literally the day before senior day and the last home football game..Anyways, one reason was for "safety reasons." :rolleyes:
But it is more than just for the safety of the cheerleaders. Since cheerleading is not considered a sport at UF, they do not have the proper insurance that the rest of the sports do. They made the decision to ground them instead of paying to have the team insured. The decision to ground them was actually made by the marketing department...
And actually, about half of their cheerleaders were not told directly about it. They had to find out from the other half of the cheerleaders!
Sorry this was all a bit long. Haha.
