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Can you believe I was a cheerleader once upon a time??
Okay only for a year…I turned in my pom pom’s for running shoes and by freshman year post transfer to EHS, I didn’t regret it…four years later I FINALLY Lettered in track and field…and nordic skiing, and cross country running.
You see, I got cut from the cheerleading squad in 8th grade because the head cheerleading coach at the high school was the mother of the “captain” at the middle school – she helped hand pick the team with the middle school coach who was former assistant coach at the high school and picked all the girls that were friendly with her daughter. While I wasn’t necessarily enemies with her, I umm…wasn’t best friends with her either. We had grown apart after elementary school but up until 7th grade? I definitely went to each of her birthday parties. As a 13 year old girl, getting cut from the squad was one of the more heartbreaking experiences of my adolescence…thus…why I joined the track team later that spring.
Anyhow I got cut, and some bitch that made the team quit a week later because she didn’t have the grades. Eff her man. I was bitter. I resented half the squad, I resented one of the girls that got picked for the squad and then right before I was going to ask my long time crush to the 8th grade dance…she did. And told me about it at lunch. Man…that really sucked.
Anyhow, MAU and EHS had some of the best cheerleaders in the state. My sister was good friends with one of the head cheerleaders when she was in high school, and she was dating a football player so we heard all about this stuff and I used to always keep track of the championships in March when they rolled around. A part of me, when I transferred to EHS two weeks into 9th grade wanted to try out for their squad but they were too good for me and well…i lacked the confidence and agility to go for the gold. Oh well.
Anyhow…talk about a trip down memory lane. You can see more VT tales here…
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Yes… yes i can believe you were a cheerleader. hahaha
Yup, I was a cheerleader, too. Except the two junior high schools consolidated my 8th grade year, meaning our squads consolidated, meaning 6 girls were cut. I was one of those girls. That’s when I started dance. So I was on the dance squad for two years, into high school.
Then I quit and have done theatre instead ever since. Haha.
That’s too funny.
I was a cheerleader in high school on a bet. Not my finest moment….
Yeah, I can see that.
) I never tried out for cheerleading. We didn’t have it in middle school, and I was a total band geek and did colorguard my freshman year of high school.
…Then after that I got into drama and the rest was history…
Funny where our extracurriculars take us, huh?
I was a cheerleader in high school and middle school, and it was lots of fun. I do wish now that I had run track or cross country though. It seems like I could’ve gained more from that. I don’t know.
Oh, cheerleadering. Is there any activity that better encapsulates most girls’ entire high school experience? Totally the reason I am just now starting to trust most girls again– high school girls are MEAN, man!
Lol! I couldn’t imagine being a cheerleader, it’s not a popular sport in NZ at all, in fact I don’t know anybody who’s done it. It looks fun though!
I made the hockey cheerleading squad in high school, because I wanted to figure skate between periods. But the dumb captain didn’t feel confident on skates, so she decided we weren’t going to skate–the whole point for me!
So, I quit!