Cheerleading the is number one injury-related sport for young women, according to a new report on sports injuries from the University of North Carolina.
Researchers at Chapel Hill's National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research say cheerleading accounts for 65-percent of high school and 70-percent of college sports injuries.
The number of cheerleading injuries did drop slightly during the 2007-2008 school year, after an increased emphasis on safety in the sport.
Over the past 26 years, there were over 1,100 severe injuries reported in all school and college sports. 174 of those injuries resulted in death.
