We’ve spent five years developing our all girl skills. “Going coed” would kill us competitively our first two years. I couldn’t do that to my girls.
We have an occasional boy that’s interested, but historically they’ve not been bigger, stronger, faster than the girls...which is what you need for true coed.
Graves was coed in the early 90’s before anyone knew who they were. It takes a long, LONG time to really develop that tradition in most places.
I will say that in my experience, if you can get your hands on some football players, wrestlers, weightlifters, etc in your school...they’re competitive drive and testosterone really buffers a lot of girl drama. If they’re focused, they bring a level of intensity to practice that only otherwise comes naturally to cheerleading if you’ve spent a lot of time developing the right culture.