The Cheerleaders

senior football captains had to show me how to do everything at least twice. I’m sure it was just as frustrating for them as it was for me. They never gave up on teaching me cheer after cheer. Looking back, they probably thought I would be the worst cheerleader Belle Plaine has ever had. It takes a toll on a team when you have new…

I have been doing cheer since I was in first grade. I made the team last year and I loved it. I learned so many new thing and learned how to make myself a better cheerleader. Cheer makes me a better person. It showed me how to be a team player. Last year, one day after my read an email said to me " You should try out for the kaneland competitive cheer team." I told all my friends about it and they decided they would try out too. On the third day of tryouts I put in 110% to give myself a better…

competitive cheerleading is not a sport because all one does is scream chants, dance around, and look sexy, but a cheerleader does that and a lot more. They need to recognize that being a cheerleader takes a lot of skill and coordination. Their job is to get crowds pumped, not show any fear when being tossed up into the air, and show no pain when throwing a girl 30 feet into the air. Cheerleaders make stunting look easy, but they need to understand that it is harder than most sports. Of course…

harder . I remember my Freshman year , I tried out for cheerleading and didn’t make it . Then I became a Sophomore at Southwest Early College Campus and I tried my hardest and I succeeded . I finally accomplished my big dreams I had finally become a cheerleader . Up until I had to drop out because I moved schools , then I tried out for the cheerleading squad at Hickman Mills High School . I didn’t make it the first time, but I kept trying . It's something about me that when…

The crowd screams, the lights shine, the music starts, and 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…

Back in the day, not many people can say that they were born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and a not Grady baby, Priscilla Davenport was born at Hugh Spalding Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and she is a proud product of Atlanta Public School system. She graduated from Joseph Charles Murphy High School in Atlanta. As she tried to follow her educational dreams, she attended DeKalb College and West Georgia College, which led her in pursuing a career in banking. As time moved on, she found her…

whole life.Everything I could learn, I wanted to learn. Cheerleading captivated my every thought. This continued on for two years through injuries and difficulties. By my junior year, my entire identity had become cheerleading. My friends were cheerleaders. I’d rather listen to cheer music than regular music. When new or different people spoke to me, they would ask, “How’s cheer?” and I would talk to them about it.…

“Lets Go West” As a cheerleader I have been to many school football games before, but none of them compare to our first game this year. It was on a Thursday night, and the date was August 27th, 2015. The whole school had a new attitude going into this game. I could almost feel the excitement in the air. It was a feeling I have never felt before, and it was exhilarating. I am more than sure that this feeling came from our new coaching staff and all the hard work our boys put in this summer.…

this article “Sis! Boom! Bah! Humbug!” By Rick Reilly the author does a good job of providing evidence that cheerleading is a dangerous sport An example of this is in the text, “It says According to a report by The Physician and Sportsmedicine, cheerleaders lose more time from their activity because of injury--28.8 days per injury--than any other group of athletes at the high school level.” The reasoning that cheerleading is a dangerous sport is strong enough to support the argument because…

cheers, dancing and stunting. The most exciting part of coaching is watching everyone learn new things and watching the performances come together. However, Shannon wasn’t always the person she is today! In high school she was very shy and being a cheerleader really brought out a whole new side of her that gave her a lot of self confidence. That’s part of what she wants to accomplish in coaching, to get girls out of their comfort zone and to gain self confidence within themselves. " Watching…