Girl Cut From Cheerleading Squad Threatening To Sue

A Florida student is threatening to sue Leon County Schools because she was cut from her high school cheerleading team.

Caylen Berry, head coach of the Leon High School cheer squad—which finished second in the state last season and will compete in Orlando’s National High School Cheerleading Championship in February—says the senior fell twice during a recent tryout and failed to nab a spot on the team.

Afterward, a rep says the district was “made aware of a parent’s complaint,” which apparently included a threat to sue.

The district is now considering just putting the student on the team—but Berry says that’ll be one strike too many. She and some cheerleaders say they’ll quit. “They should not put an athlete on the team that doesn’t deserve to be on the team,” says Berry. “A decision like this would question my integrity as a professional. It also questions the entire legitimacy of tryouts and cheerleading as a sport.”

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