I was the wrestling cheer captian. having the cheerleaders there was a good way to show the other people at our school that wrestling was there and alot of peopled cared about it. on the other hand it was hard for the wrestlers to hear their coaches over us. then there are those cheerleaders that hit the mats and it was pissing the wrestlers off cuz they might have someone on their back and they would hit the mat and the wrestler would think that the wrestling match was over. every time we hit the mats the coach would get pissed, the wrestlers, our coach and i would all get pretty mad at the other girls. so if you do cheers that have to do with hitting the ground hit the gym floor not the mat and dont sit on the mat because the ref's need room to move around