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In NC, cheerleaders are required to be seated except during intermissions and 60 second timeouts. Is it different where you live? I would not allow the cheerleaders on the playing floor for safety reasons. Where does your state association stand on this issue?
As long as they're sitting down, they can cheer all they want, anytime they want. And they can use megaphones while they do it.
A cheerleader who is cheering, using a microphone is simply cheerleading. Nothing in the rulebook allows you to call disconcertion on a cheerleader.
Now, don't allow them to stand on the sideline or baseline during such a situation. Preventive officiate! But if they do it, it's not disconcertion. They aren't players, bench personnel or opponents. You simply have to stop it before they do it.
So again...
Cheerleaders can't disconcert by using a megaphone to cheer during a FT. Please don't call that.
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