Should cheerleading be considered a sport under Title IX?

For the first time, a judge is being asked to rule if competitive cheerleading should be considered a sport under Title IX.
The story goes: The women’s volleyball team at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University is filing a lawsuit because their team was cut in favor of a competitive cheerleading team. But whether cheerleading is a sport isn’t so much the issue here as is the fact that the university has had a history of “cheating” Title IX regulations to favor their men’s sports teams:

[Judge] Underhill issued a temporary injunction last year that prevented the school from disbanding the volleyball team after finding the school was over-reporting the participation opportunities for its female athletes and under-reporting the opportunities for men.
Evidence showed the men’s baseball and lacrosse teams, for example, would drop players before reporting data to the Department of Education and reinstate them after the reports were submitted. Conversely, the women’s softball team would add players before the reporting date, knowing the additional players would not be on the team in the spring.

Additionally, women who run track at the school are counted three times, as members of indoor, outdoor and cross-country teams.
In this case, the cheerleading team that was favored by the school has 30 members in its squad. The women’s volleyball has just eleven. But really, it shouldn’t matter whether competitive cheerleading is a sport or not (because it is) — what matters is holding schools accountable who are manipulating their rosters to leave female athletes by the wayside.