Ayanna Williams Gaines is the coach and founder of Buffalo All-Star Extreme, a Black competitive cheerleading and dance team from Buffalo, New York. Williams Gaines started the gym as a space for ...

Britt Hertz faced off against Anna McNulty in an extreme cheerleading challenge.

For 2 minutes and 30 seconds on the competition mat, the cheers, chants and stunts from the Cheer Extreme DMV’s Supernovas squad don’t stop. “It’s such an adrenaline rush,” said Sarah Septoff, one of ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Cheer Extreme Raleigh is home to more than 450 athletes from 3 to 30 years old. This year, 5 teams were selected to go to the World Championships in Orlando. "I really believe in my ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...

Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's ...