Cheerleading is ranked right after football in the most dangerous high school sports. Over the last 30 years, there have been 128 catastrophic high school injuries in female athletes, 91 of them involving cheerleaders.The Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) recognizes cheerleading as an extracurricular activity, not a sport. Cronkite News reporter, Kim Pestalozzi, has more on the story.

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