Rindie Prinsloo, the Tuks head coach, explained that at a typical cheerleading competition teams perform a two-and-a-half-minute routine with music that includes stunts, pyramids, tosses and tumbling.

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.

Teams usually lose points for the pyramid or during long stunting sequences, because it's difficult to make all the stunts hit at the same time. Sometimes people fall.

The scoring for basic elements is equal to the scoring of the other cheer elements such as stunts, pyramids, tosses and tumbling… [It is] unlike the UAAP CDC, in which dance is 50 percent of the ...

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 ...

The STUNT team performs their pyramids and tosses routine. Flyers Ella Gumney, junior, and Eden Skariah, freshmen, strike the pose on top of their respective pyramids. Their fellow teammates cheer ...

Although integral to cheerleading routines, performing stunts can lead to injury. Stunt-related injuries accounted for more than half (60 percent) of US cheerleading injuries from June 2006 ...

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 ...

The lone loss came in a tiebreaker at the 2023 championship, while 2020 event was canceled due to COVID-19. STUNT teams compete head-to-head in a series of short routines covering four categories -- ...

A Bristol-based cheerleading club is taking the country by storm with their spectacular stunts. The Phoenix Allstar Cheerleaders have brought home a number of regional and national titles from ...