Cheerleading, in which cheer means to encourage, celebrate and inspire. Cheerleading is a form of physical activity that is accompanied by music, through dance, physical gymnastics, etc., to reflect a certain passion and passion. This kind of physical activity is often accompanied by rhythmic music to express the collective mental outlook. Cheerleading is a sport that is difficult to perform beautifully. While attaching importance to athletes' self-expression, self-expression, and self-realization, they also have high requirements for the quality, difficulty, and novelty of the movements. In the process of performance, cheerleading exercise emphasizes on the appeal to the surrounding people and the audience, which is also one of the most primitive functions of cheerleading. Therefore, the analysis of the factors influencing the artistic expression of cheerleading athletes is one of the important contents to promote the development of cheerleading sports. This article takes the influencing factors of cheerleading athletes' artistic expression as the research object, and takes some college cheerleading athletes and coaches as the research objects, and discusses the problems and influencing factors of current cheerleading athletes' artistic expression. Look for effective training paths for cheerleading athletes' artistic expression, and put forward their own positive suggestions to provide reference for promoting the improvement of the technical level of dance.