Personal Narrative: My Sports Career In Cheerleading

Growing up, I was taught that picking your battles is the best way to live your life, learning this lesson took me years and a lot of experience with people who negatively impacted my life. This lesson centers around my sports career in cheerleading and how I learned to weed out people I can’t trust. I had fallen in love with cheerleading. I loved learning new routines and performing stunts. Unfortunately, junior year in high school was my last year competing. I had made the varsity competitive cheer team, so ecstatic to perform with people who would influence me to work harder. I quickly came to realization that the team I had joined didn’t care about anything but winning. Normal behavioral aspects like sportsmanship and respect were tossed aside and were never considered. The …show more content…
As the season passed, I constantly tried to prove myself to my coaches and teammates. I was pinned against other athletes so the coaches could judge us and determine who was a better fit, I might as well not have ever joined the team. As a result of the teammates competing, cliques were formed, gossiping brewed, and favorites were obvious. Throughout all 6 years of being apart of the cheer world, I had compared myself to my teammates; I thought I would have done better if I were skinnier, if I put more focus on myself and became condescending, if I became a copycat I thought I would be noticed. That was not the case. Unfortunately for me, I was a spare tire during my junior year. I spent every practice working on my body and skills, I always tried to prove myself to the coaches. I didn’t find out until