Personal Narrative: Cheerleading

Have you ever met someone or a group of people that you knew will be your closest friends? When you first talk to these people you knew that you will build an unbreakable bond. My violin is cheerleading. Not just because of the passion I have for that sport, but because of the girls on that team. The girls on this team have got me through hard times. Whenever I see their faces it lifts my spirits and always puts a smile on my face. We have all grown so close together that we are now one giant family, and I know that I can always go to them when I 'm having a problem. Plus I get to do a sport I love with my best friends. This season was rough. Not any of the competitions, but the fact that we were having a hard time coming together as a family

No one was yelling out anything fun, no one was screaming for the stunt groups to hit their stunts. It was silent. The first time we actually came together as a real family was when they called off our names as first place winners in the game day division at nationals. We all began to hug each other and cry our hearts out. I was sitting behind one girl on my team that I wasn 't very good friends with, but when they called off our name we both looked at each other and then hugged so tightly and it 's a feeling I will never forget. This was when I knew that this was my family. We became closer and we went to finals for our routine and competed as a whole new team, we screamed for everybody to hit their stunts and we talked everything out to make sure everything was perfect. Then everything went perfect we left everything on those bright blue mats that we spend hundreds of hours every year on. This family has got each other through rough times. The night before finals we were all stressed.

Cheerleading is something that 's hard to explain to people that are not on the team. Many people just think of the stereotype when they hear about cheerleading. Snobby, popular girls that stand around and shake their pom poms. That 's somewhat true. We do shake our pom poms but we do a lot more than that. One thing that I love about our team is that none of us fit the cheerleader stereotype, there 's so much diversity on our team. We have singers, guitarist, skaters, cross country runners, and even a very special senior that has been student of the week twice in the last month. Continuing on as I said before we do so much more than shaking our pom poms. We compete routines that involve high difficulty stunts, jump sequences of four or more jumps in a row, we yell out cheers at the top of our lungs, we do high intensity dances, and we get to do it all with our best friends. This season had been amazing, we left every competition undefeated and came home with two national titles. We are the first team in Minnesota and second team in the United States to bring home 2 national titles on the same day. We are gaining more popularity and more people are realizing what a cheerleader actually does. As someone said in the crowd at a football game many months ago, “This is the year for Tonka cheer,”. But winning although winning is fun, it isn 't everything, it is the joy of going out in front of a crowd of hundreds of people and showing them what you have been working on this