Routines increase in complexity and skills as competitors get older and stronger. Judges rank routines based on elements that include "building," or setting up stunts and pyramids, tumbling and jumps.

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Oregon State cheerleaders won't be performing difficult stunts like human pyramids at this season's football games after the school banned high-risk moves because of safety ...

BYU cheer and STUNT team members, accompanied by Liz Darger, senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator, pose after their first STUNT tournament in Sacramento, California ...