Acrobatics and Tumbling Approved For NCAA Emerging Sport Status

When the UO acrobatics and tumbling program won the sport's first national title in 2011, the Ducks dreamed of the day the championship would be sponsored by the NCAA.

As of Wednesday that dream is one step closer to becoming reality. This week, the NCAA approved acrobatics and tumbling for the organization's Emerging Sports for Women status, opening up a window in which the sport can earn the right to have its championship sanctioned by the premier governing body in collegiate athletics.

"Having been a student-athlete on the first acrobatics and tumbling team at Oregon, when we only dreamed of being an NCAA sport, to now getting this passed, it's been a long time coming and a lot of hard…