Persuasive Essay: Conversations In Cheerleading

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Conversations in cheerleading

Every basketball game starts of great, until we get to chit chatting… “ Guess what happened today,” or “ look at that cute boy over there,” and “ wait what cheer are we doing?” Then there’s a full time out and we have no idea what’s going on! Then my coach will look at me like and say what are you doing? Later on I can’t remember the cheers and I’ll do the same cheer over again or I won’t do a cheer at all. After a while of cheering we will start talking and talking again!

New years resolution

So this year I thought, I need to be a better cheer captain for my cheer team for the rest of the basketball season. The second the game is over my coach tells us what we did well and what we did bad during the game. My coach is always telling me what to improve on, what I’m doing wrong, and how I did after the game.
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Paying more attention to the game is one thing I need to improve on during games. To be a good captain, you need to be able to know what’s going on in the game. I’m always talking about my day and other things and it gets me off track from the game. To be able to hold myself accountable for my goal, I need to show up to every practice. Also show up on time for games and practice. Next I will try my absolute hardest to be a good leader for my team. I’m going to encourage my teammates and always stay on task.

The struggle is

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