Personal Narrative: Mats In High School

Our first step off the bus, it’s like stepping onto a different territory. You see a school that is bigger, nicer, and easy to get lost in. After a few minutes of recollecting ourselves, we stand in a line according to grades we are in, and walk with our heads up high. The Coach lets the director of the competition now "North Marion Huskies are here, " she emphasized the North Marion. Only because there are two different huskies teams. After, checking in we find an area where we can set our bags down. We set them down in one of their gyms. And in the gym, they have fourteen mats places for teams to practice on. Every team goes to these mats do a quick warm up, go over tumbling, and stunting, and along with the dance.

Then you hear loudly the director say "Performing, on deck, or in the hole." Each team gets a number, and the number that is given to the team they will be performing. So we got our number. Couch and the girl go to into the main gym where

Once we do that, we are technically "on deck". We stand close to the mats but not close enough that we would interfere with the team going before us. Once the team that was in front of us goes the north Marion huskies walk up to the corner of the mat and wait. There is music playing we stand there for about three to five minutes. The music stops playing and you know it is the real thing. We put our hands in a circle. And we all hear "Now performing north Marion huskies." We all move-out hand up and down, yell "NMHS HUSKIES!" we run onto the mats and wait till the music plays.First, we do the cheer with tumbling, dance, stunning and the last dance with our best tumbling. Pushing through our burning muscles, our mat burns, and shoe burns, or elbowed faces. Just for the last few seconds till we finish. We hit our last count/move and pause for just a few seconds and then as we run off the mats shouting of the team name. And the only thing left is the anticipation we get when it’s the last few teams and then awards