Cheerleading Tryouts We had cheerleading tryouts at the end of last year. It was one of the most stressful times of my life. One of my biggest dreams was to become a cheerleader. Before cheerleading began I had more free time, played other sports, and spent more time with my family. During the week of tryouts we practiced right after school from 3:00 P.M. until 6:00 P.M. I was so tired that I had to come home and go straight to bed. I also missed my cousin's birthday party, and even a few other events because of practice. I missed some school events, too. But making the squad had always been an enormous dream of mine. Hard work pays off, right? They announced the names of the girls who made the team one morning
Competitive Cheerleading, the Sport Many cheerleaders today face a common problem, getting respect for what they do. In the article “Why Don’t More People Consider Competitive Cheerleading a Sport?”, from The Atlantic, Elisabeth Sherman talked to multiple cheerleaders that all feel they do not get enough respect for the many hours of training they do, along with competing against other teams. It is extremely frustrating to hard working, competitive, cheerleaders when people do not take them seriously because they are uneducated about what competitive or All Star cheerleading really is.
How to Train for Cheer Tryouts The best way to train for cheer tryouts is the following. The first thing you need to do is to get in shape. The best way to do this is by working out.
I unfortunately choked up and didn’t make it on that team. Instead of giving up I choose to keep practicing. I decided to join another team outside of school to improve my skills. My new goal was to make it to my high school cheer team. My new team taught me team skills and with that we were able to win many competitions.
Informative Essay on Cheerleading Stereotypes In today's world, cheerleading is looked at more as a way to pick up all the guys than as a sport. Cheerleading was made for the dumb of dumbest blondes that have nothing better to do then pick on people and rule the school while wearing extremely short skirts, while trying to steal your man. Wouldn’t you want to be a cheerleader if you were getting all the guys you wanted? I'm going to teach you how to be the best cheerleader you can be in ten short steps.
Being a cheerleader I know how hard it is to prepare for a cheer competition mentally and physically. But what about the parents or first time cheerleaders? They do not know how hard it is to prepare and they do not know what to prepare for. When I started a competitive cheer team, a year ago, I did not know what to expect when it came to preparing for a cheer competition. To prepare for the first competition of the year, I asked my sister what she did to prepare because she had been a cheerleader for several years and now a cheer coach.
Being a cheerleader takes a positive attitude and the willingness to work hard! It takes commitment, self-discipline, and dedication. It takes energy and skill and it takes each of us working together to be our very best! Cheerleaders are role models at school and in the community.
“I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get the next goal.” Cheerleading is a very difficult and intricate sport that allows athletic and flexible guys and girls to perform tumbling and stunting talent. Cheerleading was created at Princeton University in 1884. When the sport first started only men were allowed.
“Cheerleading was the cause of more than half of the “catastrophic injuries” to female athletes” (Lyman, 205). Completive cheerleading is one of the toughest and dangerous “sport” in the nation. “In the 2010-2011 school year head injuries were associated with 1579 concussions, 361 contusions and 2,292 internal injuries” (American Association of Neurological surgeons, 2017). Kaitlyn Behnke started cheering when she was six years old. During the next fifteen years Behnke suffered five concussions.
The try-outs were in the spring so I wanted school to hurry fastly. I wasn’t the only one trying out. Kat Wille also did. If it wasn’t for Kat and I to convince Aubrey McEnroe and Grace Menke to try out, they wouldn’t be dancing. We were all so excited to try out and we all four made the team.
I have been cheerleading for the past 7 years, and truly love it. Ever since a young girl, I have admired the Perrysburg High School cheerleaders. Cheerleading helps me express myself, and define who I am as a person. Cheerleading has been my passion since a young girl, and I have a true love for it. Cheerleading has helped me grow as a person, and has helped me become more confident in myself.
As a student in highschool, I contribute to numerous teams. I participate in cheerleading for varsity football and basketball. For cheerleading we all work together and create cheers and dances that we perform at games. We also are assigned to compose cheers by ourselves to teach the whole squad. I have been a cheerleader for three years now.
Although the set up of a cheerleading competition may seem a little difficult and unusual; the same concepts of other sports apply to cheerleading as well. The USASF Cheerleading World Championships is one of the most prestigious competitions competitive cheerleaders have to the opportunity to complete in. Teams travel from all over the world in order to get a chance to become the worlds greatest. The all time cheerleading brand, Varsity Spirit, is one of the top cheerleading associations that holds competitions that house thousands of athletes and spectators in one large arena. Even though meets every criteria of a sport, skeptics still continue to argue that cheerleading does not qualify as a sport.
Here is where my journey, and also the most dreaded part of the year comes, tryout season. My summer went as planned. Working very hard to achieve my goal of making the best team I could. Being smaller than everyone else, I knew I had to set my standards higher and work harder than everyone else to keep up.
Activity: cheerleading _____________________________________ Date: __7th grade_____________________ Your Role: _dancer and lifter______ Description of Activity: _We made a coreography for our presentations and needed to worck together to lift and catch our friends that were going in the air. ____________________________________________ How does your participation in this activity illustrate any specific Academic Achievement, Leadership, Service, Character and/or Citizenship traits as described on page 2 of the application? Indicate how your performance shows you went above and beyond the required expectations.
There are about 3 million cheerleaders in America. These 3 million people are as dedicated to cheerleading as a regular person is to going to their job each day. Cheerleaders, on average, spend about 10-12 hours a week in the gym. That is just to make one game look good. People think traditional cheerleading is not a sport because they do not compete like other sports.