Personal Narrative Essay: Bosse High School

For a lot of people in Evansville, Bosse High School’s gym is just a gym. To me, this is actually a place I hold close to home. High school is probably the scariest thing starting next to college. Luckily I got a head start with knowing people considering I was going to the complete opposite high school that everyone in my middle school was going to. Cheer has always saved the day. I remember my first high school tryouts just like it was yesterday. I mean yes I did competitive cheer all my life but this was high school cheer! I went to the clinic the first day and we learned the school song. I usually catch on to things fairly quick but boy was that school song hard! A lot of the girls there had to practice on their jumps and work extra hard …show more content…
My very first cheer performance was actually in Bosse’s gym. When I first heard that we were performing at half time at a basketball game, I was a nervous wreck! I didn’t even know if I wanted to do cheer anymore! I’ve never performed in front of a crowd so big. When we first got out there in the middle of the gym right above the big bulldog in the middle of the floor, I felt so many eyes and eager faces ready to watch and see what we did. My heart was racing so fast I thought it was going to jump out of my chest! I surprisingly got over it! Once I started dancing, jumping, tumbling and throwing stunts I knew this is what I wanted to do for a very long time! I loved hearing how loud the crowd cheered after we were done …show more content…
A lot of people actually will not tumble on the gym floor because they say it hurts their hands. I actually LOVE tumbling on Bosse’s gym floor. Before every basketball game the athletic director has the janitors wax the floor so it looks very shiny. We have wood floors but they are the good smooth kind. We have a nice student section so when you run and tumble they really hype you up! The very first time I’ve ever tumbled on Bosse’s gym floor I was a freshman. My coach made everyone who knew how to tumble run and do 5 back handsprings in a row while everyone who couldn’t tumble spell out Bosse every time hit a back handspring. I actually honestly didn’t think I’d be able to keep up but I did! Let me tell you that there’s no better feeling than your hands hitting that freshly waxed hard gym floor. When it was time to tumble at basketball games and everyone else was complaining, I gladly went out there and tumbled. On March 5th, 2015 I tore my meniscus right there on Bosse’s floor. I couldn’t do anything but lay there and cry! I had to be carried off the floor. After that day and going through physical therapy I decided that I no longer wanted to be a cheerleader