Personal Narrative: My Dance At Pottsville High School

I’d been through this before, but all I wanted to do was go home. There was a possibility of things I could do wrong. I could forget my dance, bomb my tumbling, or maybe not even make the cheer team. As I pulled up to the Pottsville High School, all the worries in my head got worse. I could not perform in front of these judges without messing up.

The cafeteria was where we had to go to warm up. I walked into Pottsville High School and saw around 40 girls wearing all the same thing: a plain white t-shirt, all black shorts, and white cheer shoes. It was mandatory for us all to wear it, we also had to have our hair pulled up. I instantly went to Breckyn and Kaitlyn and started talking to them. Kaitlyn’s dad had brought us all Chicken Minis from Chick-fil-A, we were starving. While we were all eating, the 9th grade math teacher, Mrs. Ayers had her daughter Alex announce who we were trying out with since we tried out in pairs. I was paired with one of my friends, Chloe’. After our …show more content…
I quickly scanned the people in front of me and counted six judges. The first three were Mrs. Falls, the high school cheer coach, Mrs. Ham, the former junior high coach, and Mrs. Ayers, the new junior high cheer coach. The other three I did not recognize, they had to be judges according to NCA. NCA is the National Cheerleaders Association, and they make all the rules for cheer. Me and Chloe’ then had to turn around to start the cheer. The next few minutes went by in a blur, I didn’t mess up. When it came the time for us to do a split, I didn’t think anything would go wrong. I went down into it, but I didn’t go down all the way. I forced myself to go all the way down, and I felt no pain. The rest of the tryout went amazing, I didn’t mess up at all and I walked into the cafeteria smiling when it was over. There was a slight pain in left leg, but I didn’t think there was anything