THEY ARE WELL AWARE OF THE RISKS

The creator of Netflix's docuseries Cheer explains how the drama and danger of cheerleading make the competitive sport too exciting to be confined to the sidelines by bryn elise sandberg Documentary filmmaker Greg Whiteley happened to walk by a TV display in Costco when he saw his alma mater, Brigham Young University, win the national cheerleading championship. [...]what was interesting about that is there were some name-brand schools like Texas Tech or Kentucky that showed up in the search - but the fact that I had never heard of this school in a rural part of Texas, and yet it's considered to be one of the top teams in the world, just piqued our interest. Corsicana, Texas, is an incredibly charming town that has the world's greatest college cheerleading team, and yet nobody seemed to know. [...]like Monica [Aldama, the school's director of cheerleading] says, in order for them to be successful at Daytona, it's necessary to devise a routine that presses the boundaries. [...]my sense is that if Monica were to dumb down the routine in an effort to make it safer, the vast majority of cheerleaders who I talked to would simply go someplace else.