Cheerleader Sweat Too!

It all goes back to 1997, when I was in the 7th grade I decided to take up cheerleading. Before I started, I thought it was going to be all fun and games. What could be easier than going out to a football field and cheering for a bunch of sweaty guys? I remember being so excited to start that I couldn’t wait till July for practice; it came sooner than I thought. First day of practice, I had my spandex shorts on, my extremely oversized shirt on, and my frozen water that was almost burning my fingertips. I got to the empty field; there were so many girls there. All different types of girls tall ones, short ones, and skinny ones too. I wasn’t feeling too uncomfortable because my friends Letty and

of a 1 to 1½ minute cheer and a 3 minute dance. I had never been to a cheerleading competition but I had always seen them on T.V.

really a team; it was like the song brought us together. From the team being able to work together, we were able to get our routine in unison. Our coaches were noticing an

was staring at us. Time passed and we were finally next. We were all so nervous; we said a prayer and whispered the lyrics to “Footloose” to hopefully calm our nerves. The announcer called our name and we walked out onto the floor. I’ve never been so nervous in my life, people screaming our name out and screaming “GO”. We began with our dance, I think our fans noticed we were a little nervous, that they started to sing along with our song. I heard all the fans singing “Every cut everybody cut, footloose”, it was awesome. After that, we stole the show; we hit all our stunts, moves, and smiles. After we were done, we ran off the stage and as soon as we got off every one of us started to cry. They weren’t sad tears, they were happy tears. Our coaches yelling “You did it girls, you did it”, they were crying too. When they were announcing the winners, they announced us first place. We were all so excited and surprised, we didn’t know what to do. We were #1, it felt good. That season were ended up being number one in California, and moved onto nationals in Florida. We didn’t win in nationals, because our coaches say it’s a “political” thing, whatever that means. It was all worth it though, we were number one in our hearts and back in California.

I thought competition was only for college cheerleaders and we were nowhere near being as good as them. Our coaches handed out a paper with our competition cheer typed on it; they told us we needed to memorize it. I thought to myself I could never memorize this plus a dance. For a week straight we only worked on our cheer, we weren’t good at all. Our coaches had no faith in us. They always used to tell us “You girls aren’t going anywhere looking like this”. I don’t think it was to motivate us to be better because we really sucked. We weren’t together, our claps were off, we couldn’t get our jumps at the same time and we definitely couldn’t get our stunts up. Soon they started to teach us the moves of the competition dance but they didn’t teach us with our music just with eight counts. As time passed and competition got closer we starte

Some topics in this essay:
FIGHT WIN”, , Letty Ashley, coaches’ house, players sweat, girls team, soon started, letty ashley, song motivated, started practice, cheerleaders sweat, “you girls, cheerleading cheering,