Three cheers for cheerleader safety
From an article in the Mail Tribune
In the year since Kimberly Archie founded a nonprofit organization to shed light on the lack of national safety regulations for high school cheer squads, the mother of a former North Medford High School cheerleader has helped place cheerleader safety concerns on the national radar.
Archie, who now lives in Riverside, Calif., helped form the National Cheer Safety Foundation in January out of a support group of cheerleader parents called the Bring It On Safety Alliance.
The foundation’s spotlight on increasing cheerleader injuries and the absence of safety regulations in some states has made its way into the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, ABC News, Canada’s CBC News and the London Telegraph, among other news networks and publications. People magazine also is working on a spread about cheer safety and interviewed Archie and co-founder Ruth Burns, whose daughter, Ashley, died in a cheerleading accident, for the article.
