Editing Cheerleading (section)

=== Safety regulation changes ===
Kristi Yamaoka, a cheerleader for Southern Illinois University, suffered a [[fractured vertebra]] when she hit her head after falling from a [[human pyramid]].<ref>{{cite web|date=8 March 2006|title=Injured Cheerleader Defends Dangerous Stunts |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1699301&page=1|access-date=19 November 2017|website=ABC News|archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040915/http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1699301&page=1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Cheer Bans continue|work=Athletic Management|issue=August/September 2006 |url=http://www.athleticmanagement.com/2007/02/13/cheer_bans_continue/index.php|access-date=May 5, 2010|archive-date=December 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203110609/http://www.athleticmanagement.com/2007/02/13/cheer_bans_continue/index.php|url-status=live}}</ref> She also suffered from a concussion, and a bruised lung.<ref name="CWT">{{cite web|title=Cheerleader worried for team, not herself|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11699607/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421083010/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11699607|archive-date=2006-04-21|access-date=2007-09-29|website=[[MSNBC]]}}</ref> The fall occurred when Yamaoka lost her balance during a basketball game between [[Southern Illinois University]] and [[Bradley University]] at the [[Scottrade Center|Savvis Center]] in [[St. Louis]] on March 5, 2006.<ref name="CWT" /> The fall gained "national attention",<ref name="CWT" /> because Yamaoka continued to perform from a stretcher as she was moved away from the game.<ref name="CWT" />

The accident caused the [[Missouri Valley Conference]] to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be "launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels" for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.<ref name="aacca.org">{{cite web|title=Cheerleading programs going all-out for safety|url=http://www.aacca.org/CollegePressRelease.doc|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080414065849/http://www.aacca.org/CollegePressRelease.doc|archive-date=April 14, 2008|access-date=2006-12-19}}</ref>  On July 11, 2006, the bans were made permanent by the AACCA rules committee:
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The committee unanimously voted for sweeping revisions to cheerleading safety rules, the most major of which restricts specific upper-level skills during basketball games. Basket tosses, {{frac|2|1|2}} high pyramids, one-arm stunts, stunts that involve twisting or flipping, and twisting tumbling skills may be performed only during halftime and post-game on a matted surface and are prohibited during game play or time-outs.<ref name="aacca.org" />
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