Rules about cheerleaders' actions during play

[RollTide]

I've never seen the 'spirit' book either. But, in Alabama, the rules, as we've been told by our association president, stipulate that cheerleaders must remain in the bleachers during all live ball situations and 30 second timeouts.

If they are on the bottom row of bleachers, they must remained seated during live balls. If they are in the second row and up, they are allowed to stand and cheer at any time.

They are allowed to come on the floor during full timeouts and in between quarters.

There are a few squads around here that will send a couple of their members to the floor (end of bleachers, well out of the way of the court) when their team is shooting free throws. If they make the free throws, they will do a jump or something. As long as they stay out of our way, most of our officials won't say anything.

Our feeling is, if they want us to enforce it, they should either give us the spirit book or put it in the NFHS rule book.