Cheerleading

decorations around the school to candy bags and even running through signs for every home game. High school cheerleading is not consider a sport, but you still need to have decent grades to participate. It was not until my junior year of high school where they started to reward sport teams with the highest grade point average in fall, winter, and spring. It was no surprise that cheerleading won two years in a row for both fall and winter sport seasons. Our average GPA put together was around a…

Competitive Cheerleading causes many injuries that can last a lifetime. According to Dan Popoloski said,” What sport has the highest rate of injury? It says Gymnastics and cheerleading come into fourth place for that.” According to Wayne Drehs also says,” How many people have died because of cheerleading ? They said the number of cheerleaders treated at a hospitals have increased from 5,000 a year to 30,000 a year today. This connects to my reason because it…

there was always one sport that appealed to me, cheerleading. Many argue that cheerleading isn’t a “sport”. I completely disagree with this statement. Not a lot of people notice, but cheerleading is a very aggressive sport. I started cheerleading at age eight. I cheered all the way up to my freshman year. My sophomore year I decided that I would try volleyball. I played volleyball for North Jackson High for one year. Although I missed cheerleading very much, I refused to cheer for the Chiefs.…

my leadership qualities began to fade. As this happened throughout the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I wondered if I had lost my ability to step up and lead. This past year, I proved that to be incorrect. Every May, my cheerleading team holds tryouts for anyone interested in joining. After a major loss at the biggest competition of the year, The Summit, in April of 2015, the May tryouts were looking pretty dry. Almost no one from the past year returned to…

T-shirt, trying not to draw attention to myself, I slowly approached the large group of girls. Everything was so quiet, yet so loud. All I could hear was murmuring about what was about to occur within the next hour or two. It was the final day of cheerleading tryouts. There were girls everywhere within the gym. Filling almost every empty gap or empty space within it. irls who bunched up with their friends, girls who were by themselves, and then there was me. Frantically looking around to see if…

amount to much, took a big toll on my grades. All throughout elementary school I was in the “special” classes. In fifth grade I moved to middle school. I was shy and didn’t have many friends. Still on the hunt for my talent, I saw a poster for cheerleading tryouts. I didn’t have much experience with this, but what the heck, I decided to try it. From the second I tried out, I was hooked. It was like a drug and I kept coming back for more. My entire life turned around, my grades soared, I got a…

I decided to ask them a few questions to see how much they actually knew about cheerleading and what exactly competitive cheer looks like. I found a video of my favorite college cheerleading team competing at nationals to show them how intense cheerleading can get compared to just sitting on the sidelines at a football game. As they watched the routine they were so amazed by the flare of cheerleading it almost cast a spell on them. Jacob said “Woah, there is a person on top of a person!”…

There is No I in T E A M A lot of the time cheerleaders are stereotyped as stuck up, pretty girls, with the mindset of being better than everyone else, well that is not always true. Being pretty is not only an outside appearance but, it is also the attitude you portray when dealing with others at Maumelle High School taught me a 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…

Many times in our lives we have the choice to be a leader or a follower. One of the many times that I have chosen a leadership role is when I was on my competitive cheerleading team. During one of our first competitions half of the team forgot our routine and the stunts all fell. While everyone stood there in silence I started saying the words and going through the stunts and routine and everyone followed my lead and we pushed through the embarrassment. I decided to take this leadership role…

In New Fairfield, Connecticut cheer was everything. Almost every girl in town did Falcon cheer. There were times when missing practice was equivalent to death. During my last year of cheer with the Falcons I was a Jr. Midget, the last team before high school. This particular year there were two Jr. Midget teams, black and red, both of which had the same cheer coaches. I was on the black team, which was considered the lowest ranking team of the two. We were seen as the bottom or the throw aways…