“Beep, Beep, Beep!” That is the sound I woke up to on the morning. This is it, the morning! I got out of bed and went straight to my uniform. I threw it on so fast because of how thrilled I was. I quickly did my competition makeup and threw my hair into a poof and bun. I grabbed my cheer shoes and practically flew down the stairs. I ran like lightning to the car and screamed “Mom, let’s go!” We drove to Bojangles and I got my favorite breakfast. Then we headed over to AC Flora for stretching and warmups. We were all there. My teammates and I were ecstatic to perform our perfected routine. Today was our chance to show everyone what we were made of. Once everyone checked their makeup and hair, we quickly ran through the routine. There were
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Some of the teams we knew we could beat, but others we weren’t so sure about. We walked through the back door and made our way to the stands while we waited to be called for warmups. Once our coach gave us the five minute warning, we knew it was crunch time. We quickly scrambled to the warmup area and began to warm up our tumbling. We were practicing our round offs, back handsprings, some of us standing tucks, and running tucks. We were all so full of adrenalin, we didn’t even realize what was happening. After tumbling, we moved over to stunt warmups. We knew what we were doing, we have only done this for what seems like a million times. My stunt group was solid, while others falling. We were just hoping that they were going to do better when it counted. Finally we ran over to run through the routine. This was it, we were next. When we heard our introduction, we flew out onto the mat. We were so full of energy that there was no way that we weren’t going to hit this routine. Yes! I landed my round off tuck, even with a pulled muscle. Now it was just smooth sailing. Then suddenly, right before our stunt sequence was about to go up, our music skipped ahead about 40 seconds. None of us knew what to do. This has never happened to us and we had never practiced this in case it ever happened. It was so embarrassing! We were all on different counts and at different parts of the routine. When it
Some of the teams we knew we could beat, but others we weren’t so sure about. We walked through the back door and made our way to the stands while we waited to be called for warmups. Once our coach gave us the five minute warning, we knew it was crunch time. We quickly scrambled to the warmup area and began to warm up our tumbling. We were practicing our round offs, back handsprings, some of us standing tucks, and running tucks. We were all so full of adrenalin, we didn’t even realize what was happening. After tumbling, we moved over to stunt warmups. We knew what we were doing, we have only done this for what seems like a million times. My stunt group was solid, while others falling. We were just hoping that they were going to do better when it counted. Finally we ran over to run through the routine. This was it, we were next. When we heard our introduction, we flew out onto the mat. We were so full of energy that there was no way that we weren’t going to hit this routine. Yes! I landed my round off tuck, even with a pulled muscle. Now it was just smooth sailing. Then suddenly, right before our stunt sequence was about to go up, our music skipped ahead about 40 seconds. None of us knew what to do. This has never happened to us and we had never practiced this in case it ever happened. It was so embarrassing! We were all on different counts and at different parts of the routine. When it