Cheerleaders Sweat Too!
I always hated our first practices. Practices always started mid July or even earlier sometimes. The weather was always hot and clammy, especially after practicing for hours. The sport, cheerleading. Cheerleading is not as easy as it looks. There’s much more to cheerleading than cheering for football or basketball players while they sweat and shoot baskets or make touchdowns. Cheerleaders sweat too, I can remember the first year I started cheering. That year, I think all the girls on my team had sweat coming down all season long. It all goes back to 1997, when I was in the 7th grade I decided to take up cheerleading. Before I started, I thought it was going to be all fun and games. What could be easier than going out to a football field and cheering for a bunch of sweaty guys? I remember being so excited to start that I couldn’t wait till July for practice; it came sooner than I thought. First day of practice, I had my spandex shorts on, my extremely oversized shirt on, and my frozen water that was almost burning my fingertips. I got to the empty field; there were so many girls there. All different types of girls tall ones, short ones, and skinny ones t . . .
I thought to myself I could never memorize this plus a dance. Our coaches made copies of the tapes for us so we could get familiar with the song and practice at home. It was all worth it though, we were number one in our hearts and back in California. By that time we were ready to leave for competition, everybody car pooled over to the local high school where the competition was going to be held at. I was so nervous that I threw up on the way to my coaches’ house. At this time our coaches decided to finally let us hear our dance song. Cheering is tough and it takes a lot mentally and physically to be a cheerleader. I started to feel butterflies in my stomach. The announcer called our name and we walked out onto the floor. Our coaches were noticing an improvement because they were starting to compliment us. I can remember the morning of my first competition like it was yesterday. It was like a miracle, it all started with us singing together, and then we were finally working together. We started to practice, everyone was staring at us. The first month we were just working on game cheers. Soon they started to teach us the moves of the competition dance but they didn’t teach us with our music just with eight counts.
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