Cheerleading

We all know failure is inevitable, but often leaves us feeling discouraged or insecure. My sophomore year I decided I wanted to try out for the Lewisburg High dance team. I wrote my name on the sign up sheet and the next day the coach announced there would be a meeting for everyone who signed up. I attended the meeting and the coach gave each of us a run down of how tryouts would go, and a CD with music so we could practice. She also let us know tryouts would be the following Friday. Excited as…

Anshu Jamsenpa the first women to ever climb Mount Everest twice in 5 days! Mother of 2 and at the age of 38 she broke a world record and made global headlines. When she became the first woman to conquer the 29,028-feet-tall Mount. The first thing Anshu told everyone was "I always think that I am very close to god, I am getting a blessing, I only feel that whenever I am at the top." So that is the main reason why she loves climbing Mount Everest. To be able to climb Mount Everest there is a…

“Marching band was the best time of my life,” Stephanie said at the beginning of the interview. She took me back to her favorite year of marching band—sophomore in high school. Their show’s theme was “Pyramids of Giza”. She ran me through their schedule on competition days. The day of the competition, they would meet at the school around sunrise. After attendance, they would load all their supplies: uniforms, instruments, background props. The band got on the school bus when everything…

Every Fall in the state of Iowa, thousands of music students spend several months preparing to audition for the All-State music festival. As a senior I wanted to walk into the audition room knowing that I could give the best performance I was capable of and hopefully make it into All-State. The summer before my senior year, I put aside my shyness and started taking voice lessons. My voice teacher told me at every lesson to come back better than today. In the following weeks through summer and…

The anticipation killed me that night. Sweat trickled down my back and my hands were shaking uncontrollably. Every five seconds I clicked the refresh button vigorously hoping to see my name on the junior varsity drill team list. Doubt started to creep slowly into the back of my head. I kept comparing myself to all the other girls at tryouts who were absolutely amazing. From their pointed feet to their higher jumps, I couldn’t even slightly compare to them. Every ounce of hope that I had soon…

There have been multiple times when someone has shared a special accomplishment or achievement with me. One significant example of a time that someone has shared a special accomplishment with me was when the varsity girls cross country team was Northern Tier League champions. This accomplishment was shared with everyone that was on the varsity girls cross country team. This was a special accomplishment for everyone. The varsity girls cross country team becoming Northern Tier League champions…

Hard work always pays off. I am going to be telling you-all a story how we became the champions for my football teams. How it all started was when we got a lot of good players to play on the team. There were a lot a goof on our team, but when it came to practice we all work hard. I think having goofs and funny people on our team was a good thing because most people play good with hype men. Keeping each other, heads up was a big part of us winning. I think that because there were many games…

I am most proud of my accomplishments in gymnastics. Gymnastics was the first place where I experienced rejection; the second time was being rejected from medical school. After my first gym closed down, my mother began researching competitive teams for my sister and I to join. Most gymnasiums require for you to tryout before making a decision. All the of the gyms we tried out at wanted my sister because she was very talented. However, they thought that I was too slow and not quite good enough.…

Dancing: A World Wide Sport If you’re a dancer, you’ve had people ask you what sport you play. Obviously you respond by saying, “I’m in dance.” Or, you hear people state that dance is not a sport. That just trips your trigger. You automatically want to defend yourself, but you don’t know what to say. I’m here today to help you defend the world of dancers! There are multiple reasons why dance is a sport but here a few of my favorites, you have less of a chance to get osteoporosis, it helps…

When I was young, I was always up on my feet and moving. No matter the activity I was involved in or what hobby I took interest in, I would find a way to choreograph little routines and show them to my friends and family. My parents tried to put me in sports, I would do cartwheels and dance on the playing fields, completely oblivious to what was going on during the games. In 5th grade, I was put into my first dance class as a hobby. This happened all because I watched the Disney Channel movie…