When Fumie Takino was 63, she started Japan Pom Pom, a cheerleading troupe for the over-55s. She's now 84 and still dancing for the troupe, who put on regular performances at sporting and charity ...

Lawrence Herkimer, the founder of modern cheerleading and inventor of the pom-pom who first started offering summertime camps for the sport in 1948, died at age 89 in Dallas.

ELDERLY people suffering with dementia and other ailments are turning to CHEERLEADING for exercise in a new pom pom craze. Women in care homes, nursing homes, dementia groups and assisted living ce… ...

CHANNELVIEW, Texas (KTRK) -- It was January 31, 1991, when the news of a Channelview mother arrested for hiring a hitman in an effort to land her daughter a spot on the cheerleading squad shocked ...