My Personal Experience Of Cheerleading

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Babe Ruth once said, “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” When starting cheerleading on a whim at the age of twelve, I faced intense adversity being that I was the only new girl with no cheer experience. Cheerleading has been nothing but beneficial to me for seven years. When entering college, I had no intention of cheerleading because I thought it was an appropriate time to close that chapter. At orientation when I saw the pretty girls in the prettier uniforms, I knew that I owed it to myself to give it another whirl.
During the summer of 2015, I went to AMC Livonia and ran into one of my former teammates, Morgan. Morgan and I were on Stevenson High School’s cheer team together when she was a senior and I was a sophomore. Naturally, we began to converse about my cheer career that was ending at Stevenson, and hers that was ongoing at WSU. I asked Morgan about tryouts and she explained to me that tryouts were over but I could email the coach to see if I could get in. In hindsight, I believe this was my first sign. Moving forward about four months. I attended Festifall with a friend and we were excited to see the cheerleaders present. I then signed up for the cheer and dance team’s email list. Looking back once again, I believed that this was my second calling. Not …show more content…

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