The Cheerleaders

learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." This quote by President John Quincy Adams helps embody my role as a leader. I strive daily to make others feel as though they are strong enough to be able to accomplish their goals. Being a cheerleader, I fulfill a key role in the leadership of my high school. Peer pressure challenges me on a daily basis to make the right choices. The constant battle helps make me the leader that I strive to be. As a senior in high school, many…

Ever since I was little, I’ve always wanted to be a cheerleader. The glitter, pom-poms, and how pretty they always were made me want to be a part of that world some day. My junior year of high school, I prepared myself to try out to be a part of the 2015-2016 Hazen Cheer team. To say that I was nervous would be a complete understatement, because I was scared out of my mind. I wanted to keep it on the down low and I only told two of my closest friends. I knew that if I didn’t make the team I…

for this journal, cheerleading came to my mind as a favorable memory. Fondly, I remember becoming a cheerleader very early, at four years of age. When I look back on my years as a cheerleader, I smile with a warn heart at the wonderful memories I hold. It began with Pee-wee cheer for the Brunswick Bull Dogs in Brunswick, NY, cheering for the boy’s football team and it I continued to be a cheerleader throughout my high school years. The members of this club were positive, especially my coaches…

A time as a child that I made an effort to accomplish something was when I became a rattlers cheerleader and wanted so badly to learn how to do a cartwheel. I was about 9 years old when I first began cheering. Mid season my cheer coach told us we have this big end of the season cheer routine and she wanted us to begin practicing. It started off easy with a few jumps and spirit fingers, but then the difficult parts came. We had to all do cartwheels. I was never really good at cartwheels. I was…

rises to her throat of the anticipation of the perfect routine. What they do not see is, the cheerleader who actually stepped off the mat as she hoped and prayed the judges did not see her blunder. Nor did they see the shaking stunt that almost did not hit as the flyer held it together with every ounce of her strength. To the spectator, it was just another routine and just another competition. To the cheerleader, it was a combination of long hours and exhausting practices only to find out that…

Social Psychology amongst Cheerleaders For this paper, I chose to evaluate my high school’s cheerleading team for concepts that were taught in Social Psychology. I was a member of this team for my junior year of high school- 2012 to 2013. I was a first-year varsity cheerleader, and it was my second year attending this school. This team was almost entirely composed of student dancers with teammates ranging from fourteen years old to eighteen year olds. I was the only non- freshman who had not…

As a cheerleader my strengths include being very determined, hard-working, and most importantly spirited. Especially when it comes to stunting, making sure everyone in my stunt group is using the right technique so that each time it goes up it hits, even if it doesn't I make sure to move on and learn from each mistake and try to make the next attempt better. Technique is very important to me not only with stunting but cheering and dancing as well. I know that with each cheer or dance there are…

have learned that to be successful I have work hard and have a positive mind. Failure isn't something that makes me feel successful but in reality, I almost always fail before I succeed. However, I have realized that in order to be an excellent cheerleader, I fail before I succeed. One part of cheerleading that requires a tremendous amount of technique is tumbling. Tumbling always came fairly easy to me but when I started working on a double full I began to doubt my ability to tumble easily.…

signals that are sent to the brain when one feels harmed or afraid. Enough fear can traumatize a person, causing them to miss out on many adventures in life. Some fears are caused by a total freak accident. That is how my fear developed. Being a cheerleader, tumbling is a big part of my lifestyle; or should I say was a big part of my lifestyle. This meant that we would have to drive up to New Albany every Tuesday and Thursday night for an hour and a half of tumbling class. There are always…

The Life Experience of a Cheerleader The rush of excitement running through the stands during the freezing Friday Night Lights. There is nothing better in the world than the feeling of pumping up the football players and crowd during a football game. Cheerleading began during the late 18th century. It originally started out with all males. Nowadays, there is a majority of females with few males or no males at all. Being a cheerleader is a great way to increase spirit in the school or community.…