<p>3 years varsity football :)</p>
<p>Wasn’t really attempting to derail it… anyways</p>
<p>Yes varsity letter for cheerleaders. Cheerleaders, at my school at least, practice a lot. Sure, give them letters. </p>
<p>4 years varsity tennis by the way</p>
<p>Agreed. I read somewhere that the faction most responsible for keeping cheerleading from becoming a sport is the feminists. They want to keep it from getting too popular because they think it objectifies women a bit too much.</p>
<p>Wow, I never thought of it that way. I always thought macho men who don’t think cheerleading is active enough would be cheerleading’s main adversary, but I guess feminists makes a bit more sense.</p>
<p>Varsity XC letter for one year so far (freshman), might letter in basketball this year, depends. I know I won’t letter in volleyball, so…</p>
<p>^^I believe it was an episode of Penn and Teller’s Bull$#!+ where I saw it discussed in full.</p>
<p>Cheerleaders at my school have to do lifting for hours at times. A ton of boys sports don’t. 'Nuff said.</p>
<p>“I read somewhere that the faction most responsible for keeping cheerleading from becoming a sport is the feminists.”</p>
<p>As I understand it, making cheer a varsity sport would hurt traditional female athletes. If cheer was classified as a “sport” (I’m not making any judgement calls; what they do is certainly athletic, and they are definitely a team), cheer would then satisfy Title IX. This could result in offering other girls sports unnecessary.</p>
<p>Wati…what? Cheerleading IS a sport at my school.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I could consider anything decided by judges to be a sport. Chess is more of a sport than cheerleading, but I do believe cheerleading should get the funding that sports do.</p>
<p>^^ That too… I hate activities that are subjective. I like when I win a tennis match 6-4, 6-4, and I wouldn’t like it if the judges gave me a 45/50 and the other team a 47/50. Too much room for personal opinion.</p>
<p>Volleyball players-- :). </p>
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Ah, a tennis player here too! </p>
<p>Three-time letter here. Competed in CIF-SS in team and individuals. . .lost in fairly early rounds at both. -__-</p>
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<p>I think lettermen jackets are a waste of money, cause NOBODY wears their lettermen jackets at college.</p>
<p>unf yes. v-cuts are prevalent. some can even work the speedo, as opposed to regular jammers.</p>
<p>@The Hairy Lemon I have no idea what CIF-SS is but I can assume that it’s some high school state tourney. 2 years ago I won the doubles state tourney, and last year I got to the quarters in singles, one round away from all state :(. We get jackets, but the whole team gets jackets so it’s nothing special.</p>
<p>^CIF is the california state championships for high school sports</p>
<p>Ah gotchya. I bet those are tough, considering Cali must have a lot of talent in like every sport. I know SoCal is probably the best section in the country for tennis, so it must have been a tough tourney The Hairy Lemon.</p>
<p>This thread was in a coma for 6 years…I can’t let that happen again 
BUMP</p>
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<p>Yea, it was tough. </p>
<p>My partner and I drew two John Isner’s for our first round. Massive serve, massive forehand, you know–the classic one-two punch combo. Their advantage was their power–and their height. (My partner and I were 5’6" and 5’7". They were 6’4"s.)</p>
<p>Our opponents hailed from a league where their school secured three of the four CIF spots at league finals. </p>
<p>Needless to say, we got destroyed. True to the testament of the hyper competitive nature of SoCal, our opponents lost the next round to a pair of even bigger monsters. </p>
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<p>I can see why SoCal is hypercompetitive. I guess we have a major presence in tennis: Indian Wells, the Pac teams of USC and UCLA and other places. . .</p>
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<p>What happened at your tournament?</p>
<p>Two John Isners, ouch!</p>
<p>My freshman year my partner, a sophomore, and I won your states division. That may sound impressive but our states are divided into sections based on school size. My school is in the smallest division, and all the really tough competition is in the largest division. In the tournament, we really only had 3 tough matches, and we won the finals 7-6, 7-6 after a rain delay at Yale. The following year I played singles and in the round of 16 I played some massive russian kid. This kid was a pro serve and volleyer, I never played against a good serve and volleyer before. I went down the first set like 3-6, then won the second 6-4 after I figured out how to play the kid. Then I got massive leg cramps because it was like 95 degrees out (that’s probably nothing to someone from Cali!). The final set consisted of me pushing like no other, I never missed, but all my balls went 20 mph. I guess it worked though, cause I won the last set 6-4. The following round I lost 6-3, 6-3 in a tough match to the 4 seed, and I was still cramping a bit. I can’t wait to play again next year, hopefully I get seeded in the top 5!</p>
<p>Well this was a short 1 year coma. </p>
<p>My question is can you get a varsity letter for a state sport that your school calls a club because they don’t fund it. To be exact I’m on varsity lacrosse and it has a state championshp and everything yet our school doesn’t want to fund it so technically it is still a club. Can I get a varsity letter?</p>