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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…
