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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by Jeffrey Moon
To BktBallRef (or anyone else): I don't want to get hypertechnical about this thing, but in these NFHS Spirit Rules, is "stunts" defined? For example, does that word mean only pyramids and things like that, or stuff like jumping up and down with pompoms, doing group dance moves and kicks, and so on?
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Before you get too wound up in this, don't forget that the officials in your game may have never heard of "spirit" rules. We enforce only what is in the NFHS basketball rule book. The NFHS basketball rules say that we leave the cheerleaders alone if we feel that they aren't interfering in the game. If we feel that they are interfering in the game, then we say "don't do that". Let somebody else worry about their spirit rules. Take away their pom-poms or sumthin'. That's not our job.
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The rules governing cheerleaders are not in the Basketball Rule Book because officials shouldn't be the ones enforcing the rules. Game management should be taking care of the issue.
Jeremy, I don't know how they define stunts." But to me, kicking and jumping are "stunts."
All I know is that I alomost killed one two years ago. I was headed back up the floor after a missed FT and she was where she wasn't suppose to have been. 
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This happened to me last year. Transition from trail to lead on steal, saw her out of the corner of my eye as I head to the endline. I'm a big guy, 6'5", 220 lbs., and fortunately, she wasn't injured (I managed to semi-catch her before she fell). Let me just say that all of the cheerleaders stayed out of my way the rest of game. I had already moved them back earlier in the game.