My High School Cheer Team

Not all cheerleaders are created equal, they do not perform the same or work as hard. Any All-Star cheerleader will tell you that high school cheerleading is not nearly as hard as All-Star Cheerleading, but why is that? Cheerleading is a mix of chanting, dancing, tumbling, and stunting. Each level of cheerleading has its limits and regulations. To understand why exactly All-Star girls believe they put in so much more work, one must look into the differences between their coaching, training, limits, and requirements to see who really is on the top of the pyramid when it comes to cheerleading.

As if I had unconsciously alienated myself from the squad. But no matter what I did I couldn’t shake the quasi -mental abuse that I had endured from cheer phi earlier on. No one likes to feel like the black sheep. But being a rebel was embedded in my DNA since birth. After all the separation, stress, and burdens of my financial obligations. I had contemplated quitting the team. I figured that if I didn’t want to be a part of cheer phi and if I couldn’t afford being on the team then why bother. One of the cheer phi members overheard me discussing my plan to the coach .I immediately got defensive and was silent the whole practice thinking that they were happy that I was leaving.

Society today has distorted what a healthy physique actually looks like. It tells you, if you don’t have muscles bulging from under your skin then you are out of shape. And that if you are overweight you are just ugly. Another false concept is that if you are overweight you’re lazy or not self disciplined (Bordo 2). There are so many factors that have to be accounted for when evaluating someone’s weight. To assume that someone is lazy or weak because they are overweight, is ignorant. Many people are deceived into thinking that obesity is terrible like a sin. In her article Susan Bordo gives an example of a study taken where children chose obesity to be more uncomfortable or embarrassing than dismembered hands or facial deformities when shown

You are receiving this email because you have agreed to volunteer your tie to coach a cheerleading team for the Van Buren Youth Football League. I want to first say THANK YOU for volunteering your time! Please forgive me for not get this email to you all sooner I have been extremely busy. I am starting a new career as a 1st year teacher in the Van Buren school district and my summer has been very pre occupied with tasks for this new position. At the moment this email will serve as out initial coaches meeting as I honestly don 't have the time to plan out a full fledged meeting. So I will try to cover all elements in this email.

I was pretty nervous because I wanted to be a cheer captain so bad. After voting, we went back to stunting.

Cheerleading is just one of those activities, which cause many controversial upheavals. Whether it is the outfits they are wearing or the moves they are doing, there is always a problem it seems like. I mean just think about how many times you may have seen something you don’t like or agree with cheerleaders doing. Well I guess that’s just the wonderful world of cheerleading. Cheerleading can be a great sport to become involved in, but many things need to be changed, like their skimpy outfits and sexual moves.

The coaches said that we weren't gonna get the results until a couple days, but those days I was so anxious. Finally the day we were gonna find out the results came. My mom opened up her email and she found out that I made the team with some of my fellow friends from school. I was so excited for my first day to come. That first season of competition was very nerve racking but at the same time so fun. I even remember at one competition I placed first all around in my division. After the first season of competing on silver, my coach wanted to see if I was ready for gold. They put me through one gold practice and I moved up to the gold team. I didn't know a lot of people on that team, so I had to make

Football fans and dreamers all over the United States universally favor Louisiana State University. Many young people aspire to become an LSU Tiger. Some of them aim to become a Louisiana State University football player, while others desire to become a member of the popular LSU cheerleading squad. Claire Walpole, a varsity cheerleader at Weston High School, was able to fulfill a dream that she had for an exceptionally long time. She had the chance to cheer with the Louisiana State University cheerleading squad. It was an opportunity of a lifetime. Although it only lasted one day, she will remember this experience for the rest of her life.

Summer going into my junior and senior year, I volunteered to help the Pop Warner Pewee cheer team. The cheer team had one paid coach and a couple of volunteers. The coach was my coach my sophomore year of high school, so she had asked me to help the team out, so I did. They had practice two to three times a week for two hours and I went to most all of them. I helped the team tremendously because I have had a lot of cheerleading experience and unlike the coach, I am young, and I am able to demonstrate certain things to the girls that the coach can’t. The whole cheer team and the coach benefited from me volunteering my time and skills. They benefited by having someone who’s is experienced in stunting. My friend and I showed them different techniques and skills to do to benefit the stunting.

In the 1960’s not only did almost every high schools have cheer squads but most colleges had squads too. NFL teams began making cheer teams in 1960’s too.The first NFL cheer team was in Texas and known as The Dallas Cowboys. It was quite vicious to make that NFL cheer team! . “There was a mother in Texas who tried to hire a hitman to kill a rival cheerleader, so her daughter could be on the squad.” In 1965 was when the first pom- poms were actually made. They were called Pom- pons not pom-Poms as they are here in 2017. Cheerleaders were pretty successful in the 1960’s. In the 1970’s and 80’s cheerleaders started getting more competitive and they added stunts and competitive

I have been part of the varsity swim team for four years now, which I am now a captain of it, reached cadet chief master sergeant in Civil Air Patrol, where I soloed a plane, and other; however, these two accomplishments are the foundations of my goals.

To begin, all-star cheerleading was approved from NCA to be a sport, some non-sport fans say that cheerleading isn’t a sport. NCA approved of all-star cheerleading being a sport because they face more challenges and competition than any other sport will face. There are two types of cheerleading, which are- all-star cheerleading and school cheerleading. School cheerleading isn’t as demanding as all-star cheerleading; as an all-star cheerleader you have to compete for your spot on the team, unlike school cheerleading, almost half of the individuals get cut from this competitive

“Not everyone is going to see or accept you for who you are, and you have to accept that.” I was told this quote everyday by my mother. Today was no different, walking up to the raked field, quote on my mind , eyes on the fresh red clay, and the sound of my metal cleats against the concrete. I was ready for this day. After months of hard work from November to February , the tryouts for Central softball team were over. Over the span of four months, I pushed myself harder than I ever thought I could, but what I did never seemed to be enough for the team.

Being a varsity cheerleader isn’t always fun. Its’ great to hang with the girls and cheer our team to victory, yet no one really sees behind the scenes. Anyone can be a cheerleader, but, not everyone can a great cheerleader. As every freshman never fails to display, there were countless times where I felt trapped within my body and encompassed in self doubt. It has always taken me longer than the rest to grasp a new routine or cheer. Took me about a full year to learn how to stunt and tumble. I’ve often felt that I was holding my team back from reaching its full potential by not being at the skill level that many mastered in their elementary gymnastics days. I found that drowning in my self pity only kept me at my current state: inadequate.

For most people cheerleading is easy, but it's actually hard. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. As you might have already figured out I am on the Cheer Team. There are twelve girls on the team this year, which is one more than last year. It’s almost like we hunted someone down and made them join the team as if we were Darth Vader. In cheer there are different titles. They are Base, Flyer, Backspot, and front spot(if needed). I am a back spot. When I backspot my feet are planted on the sweaty mat, my hands are grasped around the little ankle of my flyer, and I listened for the counts to begin. When I backspot, I feel free. I feel happy. I feel so happy that I could stretch my face to where it's double the width. I don't know what would happen to me if I was anything else besides a backspot. Would I still be the same?