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 …showed first 75 words of 1538 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1538 total…my eyes because knowing how bad we were when we started and how that song, motivated us and lead us to be number one. That year encouraged me to 6 continue cheerleading for three more years after that. Cheering is tough and it takes a lot mentally and physically to be a cheerleader. It’s hard being a cheerleader, not only ball players sweat but cheerleaders sweat too! Sometimes cheerleaders need someone to cheer for them.