Cheering

valuable lesson. I was on a team of twenty four girls and a hand full of them always wanted the spotlight. It was almost like they were all in competition with each other. Three of my teammates and I was not really in to being in the front all the. Cheering time like they were, so majority of the time we were left out. It escalated to the four of us always being in the back of group pictures to not being invited to “team” bonding outside of school. The more they thought of only themselves…

I was in my 8th year cheering and I too was slowly losing interest in the sport that I always loved. I still thought about the team I longed to be on, but by now I realized the chances of me ever being part of the team were slim to none. It all changed when my mom received the…

we were known as the “stunt group that always hit.” The stunt hit perfectly in the air as it had so many times before, but as my flyer cradled down I took a step backwards and was not able to fully catch her leg. I heard the echo of our parents’ cheering turn into what felt like dead silence, as I watched her knee hit the mat. I instantly knew I had just made a huge mistake that was going to be costly for my team. Fortunately my flyer was not physically hurt, but as it turned out my team did…

I preform my heart out. This was my life three years ago. I was a competitive all-star cheerleader for a gym called Premier Cheer. I cheered competitively for about eleven years and even won a national championship in 2011. 2013 was my last year cheering because every cheerleader has an expiration date; I aged out of the sport and my body ached too much to keep going. Now, three years after my last competition, I entered my first competition as a coach. The crowd still screams, the lights still…

mess up”. The maximum time for a cheerleading routine was three minutes. When I tell you those three minutes go by quick they go by extremely fast. You don’t even realize you and your team executed that routine perfectly. All you hear is the crowd cheering. After I was out of shock, tears began to form in my eyes. I was crying tears of joy. I cry because I am proud of myself, my team, and my supporters. All the adrenaline kept…

A well known argument is “Whether cheerleading is a sport or not”. There are two types of cheerleading. The first type of cheerleading is “side line cheer” which is cheering at sport events to pump up the crowd and keep the team and fans’ “school spirit” up. This is not considered a sport because it doesn 't take a lot of effort, just a lot of dedication and good memorization skills. It also does not fit the definition of a sport. The second type of cheerleading is ‘competitive,’ with…

Cheerleading is an encouraging, engaging, and exciting sport. The proven benefits of cheerleading are outstanding and by participating in cheerleading you could gain confidence in academics and life, teamwork and sportsmanship, and athleticism. It is proven that cheerleading can boost overall confidence in many areas. According to a girl at NJ.com, cheerleading helped her go from being a shy wallflower to a confident student. This is very common to happen with cheerleading. Cheerleading can…

to be considered a sport? In most cases, they don’t receive this title. Cheerleading is often deemed not a sport, but rather an after school activity or club. Fans of basketball or football only see high school cheerleaders stand on the sidelines cheering on the team. They do not see all the practice the do, for prepping for competition. Therefore, cheerleading deserves to be considered a sport because the girls and boys involved,…

enough potential to be one of the best squads to ever filter through Robertsdale High School; I would love nothing more than to be able to help guide this group of girls in the right direction and push our squad to be the best we can be. After cheering for the past 4 years—two of which I have been on Varsity, including a year of competitive cheer—I have learned multiple lessons and have thought long and hard about how I would work to change or improve certain things if I was captain. I would…

“You are on the sidelines” and “You are cheering for a sport, therefore it can’t be a sport,” are just some of the many counter arguments I have received. I acknowledge the difficulty of making the connection to other sports if one does not truly know what is behind closed doors. Also, it is easy…