Cheerleading Change Me

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The Year to Change Me For as long as I can remember I have always loved the sport of cheerleading. I attended all of the cheerleading camps, watched the movies, danced and cheered all around. Cheerleading was nothing less than a pure passion. After two years of Junior High cheerleading you can imagine how beyond ready I was to tryout for the High School squad. However it would end up being the most nerve-wracking thing I had ever done yet. The fear of trying out for a team and knowing you may not make it; unexplainably terrifying.
So many different things were running through my head leading up to trying out for the squad. What would I need to do? How many people will be there? Who are the judges? I knew that the chances of making anything
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Having only two other friends in my grade that were also in varsity and not personally knowing anyone else was the most odd feeling. It was like moving to a new school and not knowing any one personally what so ever. We had a new coach this year so they older girls weren’t used to her but as a freshman everything was new to me anyways so I didn’t mind. We started out by stretching, and eventually moved into doing cheers. Learning the new cheers was one of the hardest parts but I just tried to never give up. A lot of people don’t give cheerleaders enough credit. I can tell you from experience that it’s a lot harder than it …show more content…
At the end of one practice Coach had one other freshmen flyer, and I stay after to talk to us. Little did I know it would be about her asking us if we would consider joining the competitive cheerleading squad. I had never tried out in the beginning of the season because I honestly was scared to start stunting as being a flyer. I felt highly regarded to be asked to join but at the same time I was still not completely confident with becoming a flyer and being tossed up and into the air. We both let her know we would think about it and started heading home. Being on the competitive squad and actually performing as a freshman has a very slim chance of happening. After a lot of time, thought, and other opinions I decided to just go for it and join the squad. Although when I joined I knew I had a good chance of not even being able to perform and just be an alternate, I still went for it and decided before hand that I would give it my all. The “comp” practices had the greatest effect on me. They were longer, and we were doing harder stunts that I had never imagined myself being able to do. We talked about the routine we would perform at some point and although it was only a bit longer than 2 minutes it was going to put me to the