Personal Narrative: My Challenges In A Cheer Team

I’ve faced a lot of challenges in my life. One of my biggest challenges was when I was younger and on the cheer team. I’ve always had a fear of heights and falling. When I first joined the cheer team, I faced a challenge of being one of the flyers.

Before I joined the cheer team, I’d been in tumbling. I was practicing so I could try out. I had to know how to do a back handspring, walk overs, handstands, cartwheels, and many other things. When the time finally came, I had to go to the cheer clinics where they would teach us a cheer, a chant, and a dance. We learned them all in one day and practiced the other two days. When the two tryout days finally came, I was well practiced and ready. I did the cheer first, then the chant, and lastly the dance. We would find out if we made the team the next day and luckily I did make the team.

For the first few weeks, we would just practice for upcoming football games and get to know our coaches and teammates. We learned new cheers, chants, and dances. A few weeks after doing a few of those practices, we had to find out our positions. Like if you are …show more content…
Everyone had there cheer uniform on and we were all ready for the game. The coach had to take role to make sure everyone was here. One of our flyers were missing so we needed to find a back up. Unfortunately there was no one to do it. The coach asked me if I wanted to do it. I was scared but there was no one else to do it so I decided I would face my fear and do it. I knew all the stunts, but my only probably was letting them put my in the air. The time had come and it was time for the stunts. We were all ready. I jumped up on there hands and I was in the air. We did a few stunts and then they dropped me and caught me. It actually worked. I didn’t fall and they caught me for every stunt. It was really fun so I finally decided to become one of the