After suing their own school, the Quinnipiac Volleyball team may get their sport back and knocked out Cheerleading while doing so. Quinnipiac University announced that they would get rid of the volleyball team because of budgetary reasons. Their replacement? A competitive cheerleading team.

The volleyball team went to a different type of court that they’re not used to in order to remain a team. The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut helped the players in their case and proved that cheerleading is in fact, not a sport.

Competitive cheer may, some time in the future, qualify as a sport under Title IX. Today, however, the activity is still too underdeveloped and disorganized to be treated as offering genuine varsity athletic participation opportunities for students.

U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill

In order for sports to be considered as a viable sport they must adhere to certain guidelines. It must have practices, games and a set season with an over looking organization that provides rules and guidelines to the sport. Since cheerleading’s main purpose wasn’t competition since they support other athletic events, the Judge refused to allow it under Title 9.

Also found during the case was that Quinnipiac improperly manipulated with men’s and women’s rosters. They would drop men athletes and add women athletes to overstate the chances for female athletes. The school responded that any of said manipulation had ceased, basically admitting that it had been an issue.

So, what do you think? Should cheerleading be a sport? What does it have to give up in order to become one and at what cost?