The only part about being a cheerleader that I had to get used to was
not tumbling on a spring floor because as much as I didn't think it helped me,
it really did. I loved to cheer in high school, unfortunately I had a terrible
coach for the next season so I left. What's even worse than that was she was
the coach for the next two years so, I only got to cheer my freshman year and
my senior year. In my opinion those are the best years of high school that's
when you make most of your memories. Throughout the years I would go watch the
games and still talk to the girls on the team so it wasn't so bad, I still
watched them grow. During my senior year the school had hired a new coach, I
absolutely LOVED her. She was one of the best coaches I had in my cheering
life. At times she was very strict but if you listened she loved you and
everything was great.
She did pick
favorites and that caused a little bit of a mess on the team but people got
over it. I was honored and became captain my senior year. If I could go back
and do it all over again I would. I only know a few of the girls on the team
now because I've been out of high school for almost three years but I still go
watch them compete. The best thing about being a captain was being looked up to
by not only the underclassmen but by the coaches as well. At the end of my
senior year I had a freshman girl come up to me on one of my last days of
school, this girl brought tears to my eye and made me feel like I did my job as
a captain. She told me that I was "the best captain she had ever had for
any sport and I was easy to talk to and I didn't treat the freshman with
disrespect just because they where freshman. I gave everyone a chance to talk
and most of all when making corrections to certain things I wasn't mean and
snappy about it, I explained what was wrong and how to fix it. And that I was
someone she looked up to." With this being said I went back to there first
competition of football season to surprise the girls. This one girl was so
excited to see me it brought tears to her eyes. I will never forget her or my
experience of cheer leading throughout high school. Most of all it makes me happy
to think that if I didn't stop gymnastics to try something new would this have
happened? Would I have made these decisions? Most importantly if I had kept
with gymnastics would I now be teaching it?
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