Cheerleading

It came as a shock to me, new coaches and many new girls on the team and they chose me to be the captain. This past school year I was given the honor of being the JV Tennis captain, it came as a huge surprise to me, seeing as it was new coaches who had only met me a month before naming me, captain. This was my second year of being on the team and I was one of three seniors on JV, many of the other girls were freshmen and sophomores. My coaches presented me with the idea of being captain by…

I went to gymnastics and I walked to the locker room with all the other girl on my team . Most of the time it is very loud because we have over 20 girls on my team. I always sit by Jenna and Kynleigh. Then while we wait to come out I alway talk with Dani, Dani is one of our coaches. Then we go on floor and warm up. We do our front pass and back pass. Then we do our jumps and turn. As we are doing that one of the coaches call us up my number and we do vault. Last we go into the locker room for a…

The 2016 Camouflage rally was a great way to start off the new school year. The rally was extra special because it was the first Rally of the year and that it was on the same day of the Battle of the Bone football game. At the rally, Mrs. Chiotti and ASB students could list many sports teams and recognize them for their hard work and dedication to their sports. The sports listed included, water polo, girls track, boy’s cross-country, the football team, and girl’s golf. First of the rally, the…

It was the summer I decided to be better. I had done gymnastics for years, but this year I wanted to be a level six. At the time, I was a level four and to skip levels was not only difficult, but rare. “I can if I work hard enough,” I told myself, and I did. My first level six meet was here, and I had lots of people thinking it was going to be awful, that I was not ready and that I was not good enough. Floor was my last, and best event so I decided I would end with a bang. My teammates were…

Prior to taking this class I had never attempted to juggle anything. For this project I will be juggling three small homemade bean bags. The only activity I have participated in that is remotely similar to juggling is paddle ball. The motion of hitting the ball up is not similar to the motion of throwing beanbags but the need to gage how hard and in what direction you hit the ball is similar to gaging the toss of the beanbag. I am not very good at paddle ball. I can usually only hit the ball up…

My friend and I sat at the computer for hours. We watched and we dreamed. It's what you do when you are 8. As cheerleaders, we watched and idolized the best of the best. One of those elite teams happened to be here in North Carolina, my home state. We beseeched our parents to let us try out for this team when we reached the eligible age. This team was called Cheer Extreme Senior Elite. We started at Cheer Extreme Greenville. We went to competitions where Senior Elite competed. The two of us…

As an athlete in today's society I know that you can practice for days, months, years but, that does not matter when you're out in the field. My cheer squad and I Would know this because, it happens every time we go out on the field to perform. Every football game something goes wrong, this applies to our home game October 2nd, 2015. Some people say practice makes perfect it's not always true, performing is crazy. The whole mood of a game of game is determined by, how we practiced before…

Work harder! Do better! I heard this all the time at dance but I still had fun… most of the time. I had been a dancer as long as I could remember and so had my sister. Dance was a lot to take on with rehearsal everyday and competitions every other weekend in the winter. All my friends were cheerleaders and they were together every Saturday when I was at rehearsal. But through my experience I learned to follow my heart and do what I wanted to do. It was the beginning of August and it was the…

Today was the day, the day I have been dreaming about for almost my whole life. I was going to be in the Olympics. I was so nervous, my heart was pounding and my stomach felt queasy. “Julianna, are you ready to compete in the most important competition of your whole gymnastics career?” Asked my coach, Colleen. “I think so…” I replied. I didn’t feel ready. I have been training for fourteen years for this day, but that didn’t feel like enough training for the biggest competition of any gymnast’s…

It’s that time of the year where adults go back to work, kids go back to school, and all the activities start up. Football games are played every Friday, and there are practices for volleyball, tennis, cross country, and also marching band. All those are sports; they are true sports, including marching band. What is the definition of sport? According to The Register, it says “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often a competitive nature.” So therefore marching band…