Freshman Cheer Team

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When I was 14 years old, I joined the freshman cheer team. I thought it was the greatest idea I have ever made, but it turned out to be the worst decision I had made in years. I was terribly criticized, bullied, and even worse. My coaches and teammates hated me, they made everything wrong they did in their life, seem like my fault. In all of that, I was a 14 year old girl, just trying to figure out who I was in this great circle of life. When I first joined the cheer team, I was so excited and so ready to make new friends and cheer for my school. Everything started out great! I loved my coaches, I was good at cheering, I had friends, and I gained popularity. Until, everything has changed. My friends started competing with me for top spot, they wanted so badly for me to be off …show more content…
All because the girls, who were actually talking crap, didn’t want to get caught. After that happened, the coaches started to resent me. I was always in the back row, on the back of the bench during bench cheers, and they never let me do my straddles or jumps. They always made me sit down while everyone else got to practice their jumps. The talking just started getting worse and worse each day. I tried hard to ignore it, until we had our first cheer event. I needed a ride home from my cheer event, so I asked the girl I got grouped with to take me. She said “Ok, I will ask my mom.” After I left, my best friend, at the time, overheard her talking about me. Saying she didn’t want to take me home, because of how annoying I was and how much she hated me. So my teammate lied to me and said her mom said no, when she never even asked. After the event, we had a Christmas party. During the Christmas party, I had to leave early. While I was about to leave, the coach stopped me and told me my behavior was unacceptable. I asked her what she was talking about, and the coach said that the girls told her, I cursed them

Personal Narrative: My Interest In Cheerleading

first time I was in cheer was when I was six years old. I met my best friend Kaylie there. That’s when I fell in love with cheerleading. The reason that I fell in love with cheer was that I loved competing against other teams. My dad told me I should try out for the co-captain place, so I did. I was co-captain for 3 years. After I had started middle school, I tried out for the drill team. I made it on the team. That's where I met most of my friends from middle school. Freshman year, my dad told me…

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Leadershi Leadership Speeches

You look to your left and to you right and you are surrounded by not only your teammates, but your best friends. As the team gets in a huddle the other captains and myself stand in the middle and talk the team through what we need to remember in the round. Before taking the mat we all yell the powerful words that we yell before each round, “WE CAN, WE WILL, JUST BELIEVE IT” the team yells as we start to rush to the end of the mat. As the judges say “South Lyon Varsity you may take the mat” the nerves…

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Personal Narrative: Going Into High School

get the best experience I possibly could. I wanted to do more than just go to school for seven hours, come home, and repeat. My middle school passion for gymnastics drove me to try out for the cheer team and over the years, I slowly expanded my boundaries. I went from being on JV, to coaching the JV cheer team, to becoming more of a leader on campus. Renaissance gave me this opportunity. Within Renaissance, my class and I organized different academic and social events like; Valley View’s annual Homecoming…

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High School Stereotypes

For a lengthy period of time, I was, like most teenage girls, guilty of trying to be the person I was expected to be, rather than who I truly was. My freshman year I joined the cheerleading team, and exhausted myself trying to maintain good grades, while keeping up the expected social life of a high school cheerleader. I attended 2 years of lunch outings and sleepovers, where the topic of conversation generally ranged from cute boys to the latest tumbling pass we were trying to perfect. The only…

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Cheerleading Change Me

than a pure passion. After two years of Junior High cheerleading you can imagine how beyond ready I was to tryout for the High School squad. However it would end up being the most nerve-wracking thing I had ever done yet. The fear of trying out for a team and knowing you may not make it; unexplainably terrifying. So many different things were running through my head leading up to trying out for the squad. What would I need to do? How many people will be there? Who are the judges? I knew that the chances…

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Cheerleading In High School

It was my freshman year of high school and I already had two years of cheerleading under my belt. The basketball game was at Meade so we had the home advantage. Since we already had cheerleading practice twice that week, our coach only made us practice a few stunts before the game because she knew we were ready and we knew we were ready also. Then we went up to the gym to get ready to the game to start. My favorite thing about cheering for basket ball games was the sound of the crowd cheering and…

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Cheerleading Observation Paper

For the coaching observation, I observed a Varsity Cheerleading team at Plymouth High School, coached by Samantha Kerr. These cheerleaders were Varsity level, ranging from 14-18 year olds, and a mix of freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. I was never a cheerleader, nor have I ever sought out to be one, but its good to get a different perspective on a sport that you wouldn’t ever get to see up close and see the coaching styles of the sport itself. The practice I observed was one where there…

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Personal Narrative-AAU State Volleyball

consisting of parents and family, was on the edge of their seats, cheering, “Let’s go Raiders!” That day, my mom, dad, both sisters, uncle, and brother showed up to watch and support me. I am always grateful for their support. My team and I were waiting for the other team anxiously on our side of the court. They had taken a time-out, and were creating their game plan. They nervously walk onto their side of the court and get into position. The up-ref resumes his position at the top of the stand. At…

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Ella Primeaux Personal Statement

My name is Ella Primeaux, and I believe I am truly deserving and capable of being on the DE English course. Since I was a freshman at Kaplan High School, I have strived to be better than my classmates and excelled academically because of my hard work and determination. My roles as a cheerleader, cheer captain, and class president for three consecutive years have taught me how to allocate and prioritize my duties and time judiciously. My commitment throughout high school as well as my plans for the…

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Breaking Barriers In College

have made the team those next two days. We had a great season, winning left and right, and as the season continued the Reagan girl’s swim team had grown closer and closer. Now it was a few months after that first day of tryouts and the girls Reagan swim team was getting ready for our conference. We were practically family at this point, and we all had one common goal. Win conference for the eleventh year in a row. Of course this wasn’t going to be easy since there were a lot of good teams that we would…

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