Starting high school was nerve-wracking for me just like everyone else. I had made the Varsity competition cheerleading team as the first Freshman to do so. I was also one of the first three Freshman to audition and make it into the Wind Ensemble, the top band. Being a Virtual Performing Arts School, where arts are weighed as college courses, it was very competitive to get in. I was surrounded by upperclassmen on both ends of the spectrum and was determined to prove myself.
On that first Friday, I wore my cheer uniform proudly to school, excited for my first game. Eighth period band came around and I sat in my seat to get my music out, ignoring the stares coming from all around me. Mrs. K, the assistant Band Director was standing on the podium in front of me. She said, "Wow we have a cheerleader in band, that's a first!" I was mortified. After class when I was putting my flute in my locker, I overheard Kenny, a band student say, "I didn't know cheerleaders could possess the mental capacity to read music."
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I didn't want to be part of a group where I felt unwanted and a joke. I felt these stereotypes could not be changed. My parents were not happy when I told them I wanted to quit band. They said it was such a waste of talent since it was something I loved doing since 5th grade. My Dad was the Captain of his Baseball team, and in chorus. He quit for the same reason I wanted to and regret it. He told me I shouldn't care what people think and he was right. I couldn't stand to just let everyone think so wrongly about each other. Quitting would just strengthen those ideologies about cheerleaders but staying and excelling in the band program would prove them
With a score of 44 to 37, the Varsity Football Team won against the Midway Panthers last Friday night at Waco.
If everything was easy, then everyone could it and it wouldn’t be an accomplishment. Last year I joined an all-star cheerleading team, and that’s when I found out that this wasn’t going to easy that I have put myself out of my comfort zone. I was 17 years old and I was very shy, but I knew that you couldn’t do anything if you’re shy. Cheer was the best choice I had ever done by the second week of practice I was talking to everyone on the team they became my second family my coaches became so important to me they believed in every single one of us they pushed us to do our best and to never give up.
Cheer Athletics in Plano is one of the most prestigious competition gyms in the country. There are other Cheer Athletics’ branches in other places like Frisco and Austin, but not one is as successful as Plano. It is the absolute best place to go for a serious cheerleader. The best and most experienced coaches work there and they are hungry to win. They expect every ounce of energy and athleticism to be left on the floor when we are finished performing. I have never had any problems with an authority figure until I started at Cheer Athletics.
Ever since I was seven years old playing t-ball I dreamed of playing high school softball. Every year I waited not so patiently for the season to start. My junior year in high school I was the second basemen for my school softball team. That year my team and I were more determined than ever to get our team to the state finals. Before the state tournament we had to win conference, sectionals, and super sectionals. My junior year my team and I had our hearts set on being the first team in Somonauk history to ever win to the state championship.
I believe joining my high school lacrosse team was an influential part of my high school career. Having social anxiety, it was not always easy for me to be around others kids. Joining the team thought me to face my fears and that sometimes it is better to stop thinking and just take that “leap” into whatever you're afraid of. Secondly I learned to push through challenging times even when I wanted to quit. Lacrosse also allowed me to meet people who I would come to look up to, and cause me to want to improve myself for the better.
In my life I feel like I've been very successful, whether I was playing sports or working hard for school. When I regress to my glory days during middle school, I feel very euphoric, almost as if I was boasting to a group of my friends. I look back and see myself as if I was practically infallible. I remember how my attendance was merely perfect up until the first time I had gotten strep throat at the end of my 7th grade year.Or how my pop warner football team went 9-0 for the season, winning the championships of the Big Island.
“Heyboer, you’re at first. Head on out there.” As my coach said that, my nerves started rushing up my back. I was at Bicentennial park with my dad and my softball team for our last softball game of the summer. I was so nervous. Tension grew and my heart was about to burst out of my chest.
When I was 9 years old, I started this thing called competitive or all-star cheerleading. My goal at the time was to make it on a level 5 team and compete at the World Championship. Within my first 5 seasons I had a lot of trouble with my tumbling, which prevented me from moving past level 4. Before my sixth season I switched cheer gyms. My parents believed in my goals so much that they drove me an hour and half to and from practice two to three times a week. Within my first year at Tribe which was my new gym, my tumbling issues never got resolved. That left me on a level 3 team where I never believed I was good enough. The next year I was again put on a level 3 team. Now in my eighth season I was put on a level 3 team yet again. I wanted to quit, but my coach showed me that tumbling did not define me and allowed me to fall in love with the sport all over again.
Hi, I am Arabella, a junior in high school and a varsity cheerleader at Siesta Key High School. I am four feet and eight inches tall and a flyer on the cheer team. I often dress like a nerd, and do not care what other people think. I am dating the star football player at SKHS his name is Tom. Tom was not only a star football player, but he is also very good at soccer, basketball, baseball and volleyball. He is a liar and a cheater too. Anyways, people just call me Bella. I love sports and love spending my days off at the beach. I especially love Major League Baseball; Tampa Bay Devil Rays is my favorite team. I am a happy person most of the time. Who’s dedicated to my cheerleading career; and I want to get a scholarship for Northwestern
There are certain things people take away from high school, experiences, memories, etc. Personally, I will never forget my first marching experience. The first day of summer band was a complete wave of mixed emotions. I had been in band before but no junior high band compares to the high school marching band. I can still remember how the screeching sounds of the trumpets, melodic runs of the clarinets, and the erotic smell of year old marching dinkles filled the band hall. The experience was just overwhelming. The upperclassmen could just see how lost we all were because we had never experienced anything close to this before. Soon after we got there the directors didn’t waste any time going straight into how to stand at attention,
For the most part, I didn’t enjoy the early stages of marching band. The practices were long, and without any friends to interact with, the length of those practices intensified. Marching band became tiresome and boring. I wasn’t having fun, and I considered quitting after
“She’s stupid,” “They’re snobs,” “All they do is party” and the list of unflattering traits goes on. When people refer to cheerleaders, chances are they think horribly of you. Everyone see’s us as the good-looking girls who wouldn’t know anything. In years past, I was always seen as the nice, quiet, and smart girl. Until, deciding to become a cheerleader in high school. Everyone stereotypes cheerleaders as the pretty, dumb and popular girls. However, I am nothing like the stereotype people classify cheerleaders as. Although, I knew how people would view me and act around me I still decided to tryout for cheer. Despising the negative aspects that came along with becoming a cheerleader it was something I decided to be apart of.
Fifth grade was intimidating, it was where all four elementary schools combined. Fifth grade was also when you could start band. I had taken piano lessons in the third grade and had loved learning to play an instrument so I was extremely excited to join band. I was particularly looking forward to being able to play another instrument. I had no idea what to play, my mother had hoped I would choose the drums instead I had defied her wishes and picked the clarinet. I had two reasons for picking the clarinet, the first reason being I thought it looked really cool and decided I wanted to learn to play it. The second reason was based on the suggestion of Stephenie, our original plan had been to play the cello together but at the last moment she decided to play the flute. It was after this shift in instruments she suggested I play clarinet so we could play across from each other. Without any sort of idea as to what
I waited weary in anticipation of what name would break out of the happy-go-lucky collegiate cheerleader’s boisterous mouth as he was announcing the two lucky 2017 National Cheerleading Association All Americans out of all 4 Belton cheer squads. I replay this moment in my most vivid dreams, feeling the excitement of the halcyon moment grow greater and greater as the nerves and emotions grew stronger and stronger. A moment as imperative as this showed me in the most transparent way that hard, continuous work and growth pays off in many more ways than one.
In hindsight, I have come a long way since my first day of band. There have been many friends, many failures, many victories, and many beautiful moments in the wake of my fateful decision in sixth grade. I can say without a doubt that being in band has strengthened my integrity and provided me with memories that I will cherish throughout the remainder of my