All-Star Ex All Star Cheerleaders

[kem1129]

I love this thread. It helps me know that I'm not crazy for obsessively missing cheering. Seriously though I would do anything to still be cheering, absolutely anything...

 

[xspiritx]

I miss everything about it, the good and the bad. I miss the competitions. The feeling you have before you go on the mat. The feeling of hitting your routine. I miss that amazing moment when your team is finally called for first place. I miss waking up early and going to competitions, and the craziness that ensued.

I miss being yelled at by my coach. I miss the amazing feeling you have when you finally get over a mental block. I miss the bond I had with my teammates, they were like my brothers and sisters. I miss how my coaches were who I could turn to whenever I needed help with anything.

This list could go on forever. I miss everything about allstar cheerleading. Before I got injured, I took cheerleading for granted. I always heard how stuff happened to people and they had to quit. However, I never thought that it would happen to me. I will say this, always be thankful that you can do what you can. Cherish every moment- the good and the bad. You never know when something could happen.

I miss all of that too! It is like you took the words out of my mouth. I was with my gym for about 8 years when it sadly shut down. I didnt have the heart to try out anywhere else that season. That gym was a home and family to me. I wish i had the courage to try out somewhere else i miss cheering so much! Like a huge part of me is missig

 

[xspiritx]

I miss everything about it, the good and the bad. I miss the competitions. The feeling you have before you go on the mat. The feeling of hitting your routine. I miss that amazing moment when your team is finally called for first place. I miss waking up early and going to competitions, and the craziness that ensued.

I miss being yelled at by my coach. I miss the amazing feeling you have when you finally get over a mental block. I miss the bond I had with my teammates, they were like my brothers and sisters. I miss how my coaches were who I could turn to whenever I needed help with anything.

This list could go on forever. I miss everything about allstar cheerleading. Before I got injured, I took cheerleading for granted. I always heard how stuff happened to people and they had to quit. However, I never thought that it would happen to me. I will say this, always be thankful that you can do what you can. Cherish every moment- the good and the bad. You never know when something could happen.

I miss all of that too! It is like you took the words out of my mouth. I was with my gym for about 8 years when it sadly shut down. I didnt have the heart to try out anywhere else the next season. That gym was a home and family to me. I wish i had the courage to try out somewhere else i miss cheering so much! Like a huge part of me is missing

 

[bestbackspot]

I miss the friendships with those who have nothing to do with school live, I miss having my stress out let, I miss fighting for stunts. I coach now and when I have girls who don't get how to fight it drives me crazy and I just want to fill in and fight to make that stunt work, occasionally I show them how it's done;)
And I will forever miss BIG BOWS!:D

My high school coach does this too sometimes. Only problem is, she is a beast when it comes to basing. She is amazing at full ups, actually this season she said "(Insert flyer name here) you have to stand up, I tried basing that and it still didn't hit, and I could full up (Insert main base name here who is much bigger than flyer). She's such a good base and is used to stunting single base with a flyer, so whenever she demonstrates full ups, she never lets the side base catch the foot.

 

[Jessicalynn]

I miss competitions and just going to tumbling

 

[Audrey]

I think the feeling I miss the most is rocking the dance after nailing a flawless routine.

 

[cheernerd5678]

I think the thing I miss most is being part of the team. School teams are such a different atmosphere than allstar teams, in my experience.

I also feel like preparing for competition was a bonding experience for me and my mom. I miss driving to comps with her, and having her do my hair and makeup (yes she did my hair until I was 15 and then I had to quit)... I feel like we grew apart when we stopped having that time... competitions (before and after, not really the actual competitions) were like our "quality time," because it was just the two of us, something that NEVER happens (I'm one of 5 kids), and we don't really have that anymore. HS comps, we get ready as a team, and our parents aren't nearly as involved in the whole competition day thing. :(

 

[ryann3794]

for all of youcomplaining about college cheer... at least its still Cheerleading! I go to Bowling Green state and would most likely not make the team if i tried out because theyre a top UCA school..I miss cheerleading soo much. Towards the end of my junior year and my senior year I was going through a lot of personal stuff and I truely believe that Vizion and all star cheerleading stopped me from going down a bad path and saved my life. Im forever greatful for my vizion family <3

 

[cheeeeer93]

I feel like 18 is pretty young for a lot of the things you have to deal with at that age

Yes. I think the hardest thing about aging out was the amount of things I had going on at that time. Leaving cheer, graduating, saying goodbye to some really great people forever, moving on to college, etc. all at the same time. It's just overwhelming. I was an emotional wreck in April thinking about the prospect of it all.. basically dreading the end of it all and cheer was the first thing I had to let go of. I'd be lying if I said I didn't completely ball my eyes out for a pretty big part of my last competition. Pretty much every 'last' of the day.. by the end of my routine I literally sat there for a minute, took in my last moment under the lights and ran to my mom balling. Now that I think about it I wasn't as upset about aging out that day as I was thinking about how this was just the first of many big changes. I will say, I cried more at my last competition and banquet than I did at graduation..

 

[kickdblcj]

Call me crazy but I miss the full outs.

 

[fullpass]

I feel like 18 is pretty young for a lot of the things you have to deal with at that age

There are some International 4 teams out there this season. I hope this experiment works because I agree with you. There needs to be a pls r for non level 5 kids after 18

 

[thatgirlisfierce]

giving up cheerleading is by far one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I still can't let go of it. I attend college now and try to focus on my studies but I know that cheer is my true passion and I wish I could still be involved and pursue it somehow.

 

[alexamarysouza]

It's so depressing to me that I'll have privileges of posting in this section in a year when I graduate. ugh.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

giving up cheerleading is by far one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I still can't let go of it. I attend college now and try to focus on my studies but I know that cheer is my true passion and I wish I could still be involved and pursue it somehow.

Does your college have a cheer team? Might try doing that even if it's just sideline so you could still be connected to cheer somehow.

 

[Karlssssss]

I still cheer allstar today, but when I was in eighth grade I quit for a year, I hated it! I had decided to try out for school cheerleading since it was my last year in middle school, plus all my friends were trying out. I made the team no problem, but I was soooo bored for the entire season. I was the only one who had cheered allstar before, so no one else could do the things I could. We only had 2 people on the team who could even throw a backtuck (me being one of them) and the stunts we did we so easy they took no effort whatsoever. That year taught me that nothing can compare to allstar cheer, and made me realize that I wouldn't trade being an allstar cheerleader for anything in the world!