The sun isn’t up at 5:40 a.m., but seniors Haeley Folk and Lauren Ginn are. Every day, the two North Platte High School cheer captains wake up early to lead their squad. Folk and Ginn are this year’s...

State Cheer The North Platte High School Cheer Team competed at state on Feb. 22 in Grand Island, Neb. They competed in two events, game day and non-tumbling. The NPHS cheer team placed seventh out...

Making exciting posters and encouraging actual sports doesn’t boost the idea that cheerleading is a sport and I firmly believe it is not one. Lexico Dictionary defines the word sport as “an...

Cheer requires physical work, precision, and skill. Cheerleaders practice two to three times a week until everything is perfect. That sounds like a sport to me. What makes a sport a sport? According...