"E-A-S-T-E-R-N! Eastern Eagles! Go! Fight! Win!" Cheerleaders are the always the main attraction at almost every football or basketball game. Guys love them and most girls, dislike them. Cheerleaders are known as the stuck up, prissy and ditzy cheerleaders, who are only out there to show themselves off and get all the guys, but they are much more than that. Yes, they are usually the prettiest, most popular and well known ditzy girls on campus, but they also are some of the smartest people on campus as well.
             My best friend has been a cheerleader for three years now. She is the sweetest girl ever, but people think that since she's a cheerleader she has changed and is stuck up, prissy and ditzy. She's not and hasn't changed at all from how she used to be. She is also known as one of the smartest people at my old high school. She was in the top 20 in my class when we graduated.
             One can not judge all the cheerleaders by how a few of them act. That is what usually happens; one girl on the squad is dumb, ditzy and stuck up, so many people think that all the rest are like her. Not all the cheerleaders have the same personality; each and every one is different, and a lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that because they met a few ditzy ones along the way that all of them are dumb.
             The average cheerleader is stereotyped on television or in the movies as the unintelligent, sexually attractive and ineffective girls of the world, which is why cheerleading, to most, isn't known as a sport, more of a way to show off their bodies. They are stereotyped as air heads, who know nothing about anything. And this common misconception is untrue. Cheerleaders are very intelligent. They have to maintain a certain grade point average in order to even be on the cheer squad and if that grade point average drops, they are kicked off. Cheerleaders are not at all dumb like people think they are. They ...