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Thats what I thought! She should have just been able to walk in with her NCA jacket on and silver medal around her neck and automatically have made it lol. no need to try out!wait isn't your daughter on smoed? that's absolutely CRAZY that they didn't pick her. their loss :)
It happens to the best of us from the allstar world. Similar experience happened to me in college. Made it no problem for 2 years and then suddenly one year I didn't make it. Other girls only threw a roundoff backhandspring or roundoff tuck but made the team when I was throwing skills far exceeding that with sharp motions and very pretty jumps to boot (if i don't say so myself ;) ). The judge that year apparently marked down my stunting score because according to her I "was too small to base but too big to fly", regardless of me using correct technique to solidly base girls the same size as me vs. girls twice my size using bad techniques but just being able to chunk a girl up there (and i'm a normal size for all girl basing.....5'5 125 pounds) . It turned out to be the best blessing however, as I got involved in other organizations on campus, met people outside the cheerleading bubble and moved up to leadership positions that have helped me become a much more well rounded person. It's given me the opportunity to work with people much higher up at the university (including an invitation only leadership retreat) and meet closer friends than I ever had on that cheer team. I still get my cheerleading fix from fierceboard and also working for one of the cheer camp companies, but I thank the lord that I am no longer on that college team because they are still having the same problems they always will due to the way its managed, yet I have been able to take what I know from cheerleading and evolve those skills in other outlets. It was most certainly a blessing in disguise!
I would say a lot of my experience led me to coach as well! Funny how life works!I didn't make the first squad I tried out for. Made me a better cheerleader, and I think a better coach. Actually, I think it probably led directly to me becoming a coach.
thank you!!!My freshman year of highschool I didn't make the team at my highschool and I found all star! I found all star WAY more fun then school cheer... Tell her to keep her head high and try out next year :)
Maybe we are twins haha! Both my roomates think i'm crazy when I tell them I'm busy watching cheer competitions online or something. They never really participated in much sports though as they both aren't super coordinated, so I understand why they dont get it. Makes it fun to play Just Dance 3 with them though...... they are convinced that I'm ridiculously good (but i don't tell them that its just because I'm playing against them that i win :) lol )are you me? haha i had a very similar situation. (except i was not very good haha) now i'm president of a club, assistant editor of the news section of my school's newspaper (and i discovered how much i LOVE writing), webmaster of another club, and publications manager of an student-based athletics support group. I get my school spirit fix from that club, my cheer fix from here/youtube (my roommates think i'm a freak for watching so much! they'll never understand), and i'm definitely way happier now than i was freshman year when i cheered. i miss cheer all the time (esp the BOWS and uniforms) but i definitely didn't realize how much of college i was missing out on because cheer took up SO much time. i still talk to girls on the team, but i have way better and closer friends now too.