As I have stated in my blog post, Cheerleading: The Beginning of the Season, my team traveled to Tom's River, New Jersey this passed weekend. Despite my doubts and nerves for this competition my team performed really well and I am ecstatic about it! For the high school I am on two teams, each being in a different division. The one team, traditional medium, only had one fall which is amazing considering last week we had around ten falls. We ended up placing fourth in the region, and received our bid to go to nationals.
The other team I am on, super large game day, did absolutely amazing! This is our first year competing in this division so we went in not sure what to expect. We ended up receiving out bid and placing second, falling short of only .4 points to the team that won nationals last year. If we continue to work hard we may be able to go down to Florida and place really well! I am super excited to see how far both the teams go this year because we already improved so much in just a few months!
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This year I'm the captain of the varsity cheerleading team at Ridley High School. This year has been a rough start since we lost a lot of our team from last year. Last season our team consisted of twelve girls and we were a very talented group of girls. Sometimes peoples attitudes affected our team work ethic and this caused us to fall short of our goal at the end of the season. Our problem last year was that we were good enough but when we performed we would never do what we needed to do correctly and it was really frustrating. At nationals we made it to finals but when we performed for our final time we were a mess, which caused us to not place as well as we could have. At the end of our season we lost seven of our twelve teammates because they were seniors.
This season we started off alright, we had five returning varsity girls, some girls from JV, and many freshmen with talent. Things got worse when one of our returning girls had to get back surgery, leaving her out all season, and another retuning girl quit. This left us with three returning varsity girls to lead our team and help the freshmen. This summer was rough and we never had our full team there so we were unable to progress how we normally do during the summer. This put us at a very bad position where we were very behind. We were left with two months practically to teach everything and get our team ready. All the new girls were coming from previous cheer teams where their skills weren't as advanced. We focused our time on teaching girls higher skills and we got everyone up to speed. We had our first competition this passed weekend and things did not go well. SO many stunts fell and we were all over the place. I decided to use this as a learning experience and just a starting point. I hope that as our season goes on we get better every performance. Every year we go to Florida for nationals if we make it and this weekend is our competition to qualify. I hope that things go better this weekend and we grow as a team and get our bid to go to Florida for my senior year! |
Brianna Costa
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