CIF prepares to add competitive cheer

On Oct. 7, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 949, which requires the California Interscholastic Federation to develop guidelines, procedures, and safety standards which will add competition cheerleading as an interscholastic sport.

Assembly Bill 949 gave the CIF a deadline of July 1, 2017, and the CIF will implement cheer for one of the 2017-18 seasons. "We're just in the preliminary stages statewide of developing what the sport will actually be and what season it will be in and how competition will take place," said CIF San Diego Section commissioner Jerry Schniepp.

Assembly Bill 949, which...