Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 26 2002 ©CneeFDeaidloo3 it isn’t an Prospect angers health specialists By Matt Sebastlon Scripps Howard News Service The University of Colorado’s elite cheerleading squad is about to shed some unwanted pounds CU’s coach worried about injuries to male cheerleaders has told women planning to attend next month’s tryouts dial they should weigh less than 120 pounds if they hope to make die competitive team The new weight guideline for women shorter than replaces an informal 1 limit that Coach Travis Prior instituted last season - a rule that temporarily sidelined several female cheerleaders ‘This happens everywhere” said a veteran CU cheerleader who insisted on anonymity for fear of ' reprisals “With this new limit are already girls weight talking about going on unhealthy diets “This is definitely sending the wrong message" Health expats agree - but admit the situation is some- ' They thing of a Catch-2- 2 acknowledge the very real need to prevent injury yet say the new weight restriction could lead to potentially deadly eating disorders “These girls will develop really restrictive eating habits to force their bodies into a 30-pou- nd size that’s too small for Hoff proSeattle-base- d for director gram Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention “You’re Sort of trading one set of problems for another” The weight rule - which applies only to yvomen - is raising questions about whether CU’s cheerleading program is in compliance with Title IX the landmark legisla- tion barring gender discrimination in college athletics Prior a former CU cheerleader is unapologetic about the coed squad’s new weight guideline calling it “a preference really not a restriction" Women weighing more than 120 pounds may still try out for the noncompetitive all- women team he said “There’s really no discrimination toward girls who want to be a part of our program" Prior said Others aren’t s6 sure “It looks to me like it's discriminatory” said Melissa Hart a CU law professor specializing in bias cases “It’s setting standards for women but not for men" Sherri McKelvey assistant director of the CU athletic department's compliance office acknowledged that the weightrecommendation could pose a Title IX question But she said ha office doesn’t monitor cheerleading because : irnrnnrn’ “From the to You Lab IS ON THE MOVE We'd Rather Sel It than Move No Dentist Vans Required" ttl & “We just don’t pay a lot of attention to it” McKelvey said The idea of a weight restriction was first introduced last summa as a way to deal with injuries sustained by male cheerleaders who throw their female teammates into the air an activity known as “stunting” The IS women on last season’s competitive squad each weighed between 98 and 13S pounds and stood between S feet and S feet 7 inches talk according to the coach Nearly every season Prior said at mast one male cheer-lead-a undergoes surgery to repair muscle or tendon age usually in die shoulder Last year one team member missed five months of the season with a tom biceps Prior isn’t alone in his concerns about cheerleading injuries: Just last week in fact injuries and liability concerns led the University of Nebraska to ban stunting by its teams A 1999 study published in The Physician and Sportsmed-icin- e journal said cheerleading was responsible for 76 percent of deaths and serious spinal injuries among female college athletes between 1982 and In a i THEMICAL w r diets" - st six-mon- th ' 3-- “I’m stunned” said Jennifer Hagman director of the eating disorders clinic at Children’s Hospital in Denver “Someone’s going to have to work at not getting an eating disorder This is dangerous” Dcawrlst Harris-Llcma752-381- 1 (Mg) 646-231- TH RE AQSlNlJH I NCSj i f Get Started FINALLY AFFORDABLE V HEALTH INSURANCE mmmm HARRIS DENTURE DESIGN I William 752-44- 88 a - Early & Beat the Lines MbalkwfetaMeudflaf by Mq Life ml HhIUi) seeds ire io —at 'yGontacfc II re about “These types of stunts are just not safe” Bill Byrne Nebraska’s athletic director said in a statement announcing his school’s ban on human (UndcfwHtoi M d -- 66 1997 : 130-poun- CHICAQO (AP) — Intervention as simple as phone calls from a nurse can help keep heart-failupatientt out of the hospital and significantly lowia their medical costs a study found ' The study involved 358 patients who were followed for six months after being sent hone from two hospitals in the San Diego-base-d Sharp Healthcare network Patients received eitha usual follow-u- p care printed educational material and an average of 17 phone calls from a nurse “Girls are already checking on their health and offering advice Calls began within five days of hospital discharge going talking Hospital readmissipn rates for heart failure were 36 percent on unhealthy lower among patients who received the calls for heart patients who were Among phone-ca- ll ' failure i the average number of days spent hospitalized was 46 percent Iowa than for usual-car- e patients Hospital costs for CU cheerleader patients readmitted for heart failure were 43 percent lowafor the phone-ca- ll group' Heart failure which means the heart can’t pump efficiently affects about 3 million Americans and is a common reason for unbenched” the veteran ' cheerleader said hospitalization among oldaadults ' low-tecTTie study demonstrates that a relatively low-coThis season Prior has h method can have positive results in treating heart failure Costs dropped the elite squad's rec- ommended weight by 10 of acute care for the phone-ca- ll patients was about $1 000 less CU’s Web than fq usual-car- e on pounds noting patients during the study site that “persons of less than “This savings is more than double the estimated $443 cost intervention” average size particularly pa patient for the females' are morelikely to researcher Barbara Riegel of San Diego State University and the said demonstrate the flexibility which is necessary in the athRiegel said differences in drug treatment given to patients in letic aspects of charleading" both groups were not significant and likely would not explain Women will be weighed the results “I think the results are due to the phone calls but what aspect' during the April 7 tryouts Prior said And those who of the calls caused the results we can’t be sure” she said j ' make the squad will be subMoreover the researchers said the low-tec- h program was more effective at lowering rates than reducjected to wakly or bimonthly tions attributed in other studies to drag treatment weigh-in- s FOR THE 30jipFFj S74N HMn pyramids handsprings and otha forms of stunting Prior implemented rale in August and required several women to sit out stunting exercises during team practices “Then they lost the weight and were ed spat than" said Holly Cache Chemical NCAA-sanction- Phone calls can benefit patients DdduddS? rjeSgM B3 Andersons me Seed & Garden Monty Hinojosa (SOI) ' 1 ' i 776-50- 08 NttkinAMOcMottferSitSriMmpinycd SSHM CMlMjiagM my First thing tomorrow call The Herald Journal to sign up for the Snap Pav Plan It is the most convenient way to pay for our newspaper subscription t j ' ' “No worrying about carrier collections each month No 4HL iC fS: mailinginthepayment before i the expiration date - 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