Not just cute girls with pom-poms
Salon has a great writeup on author Kate Torgovnick’s book “Cheer! Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize,” including a interview with Kate.
 while researching an article for Jane about cheerleader injuries, Torgovnick got sucked in. She discovered in competitive college cheerleading — one of the only sports in which men and women compete together — “a fervent subculture filled with people willing to take their bodies to the limit … I was blown away by the gravity-defying women and Herculean men. The glimmer of passion in their eyes was so intense that it was sometimes startling,” she writes. “These are not just pretty women shaking pom-poms.”
