High School Cheerleading Controversy: Cheerleading Coach Allegedly Tried To Trip Rival Cheerleader

Coaches of high school teams are always expected to be good role models in promoting good behavior and sportsmanship. However, reports have surfaced about a high school cheerleading coach allegedly tripping a cheerleader from the other team during a game of basketball.

According to Yahoo Parenting, the coach who allegedly sabotaged a cheerleader from Sequatchie County High School is Teresa Fann, a basketball coach from Grundy County High School in Chattanooga, Tenn. The first video surveillance clip from the gym showed Fann sticking out her leg after approaching a cheerleader from the other team who was doing backflips across the court.

However, many parents and cheerleaders are saying that in the second video surveillance clip taken from another angle, Fann was actually alerting the cheerleader that she was on the wrong side of the court. "In this new video, it shows the girl tumbling across the floor and her crowd is yelling to get back over," one of the cheerleader's parents told WRCBtv.

"That is what Ms. Teresa was telling her to do. Stay on her side." The parent also added that a professional and sane adult would not purposely trip and injure a girl in front of many people.

Even the father of the cheerleader teen who was allegedly tripped did not think that Fann intentionally tripped his daughter. "If I thought my daughter was being mistreated, I'd have been out there in a heartbeat." He also said that her daughter has no hard feelings towards the high school basketball coach and that the whole thing was just blown out of proportion.

Despite all these, Fann was still suspended from teaching for three days and fired from her job as a high school cheerleading coach. Because of that, some of the cheerleaders from the high school decided to leave the cheerleading squad in support of their former coach.