My Foundation (3B)

I wish I had a wider variety of sports I played so that I’m not constantly talking about cheerleading. Unfortunately the only sport I did in high school was cheerleading and it became such an important aspect of my life, as you can see.

When I was younger I dreamed of trying out for cheerleading and becoming one of them. They were always so popular and pretty and they had a good reputation at school. I couldn’t take that opportunity when I was younger due to financial problems, so I let that dream slip away. My sophomore year of high school I moved to Madison, CT. I took that as a brand new start in high school, kind of like a do over. This was my chance to tryout for their Cheerleading team. I walked onto the mat and the coach began asking me what I knew about cheerleading. With a sad look on my face, I said “nothing” shamefully. The coach was very optimistic and believed in me. I did some of the stunts that she asked me to do that required lifting girls up in the air and I did them with no trouble at all. I listened so intently at what she had to say because I wanted to work my way to the top.

That year I made it on Varsity. That was a big deal for me because I had gone through so little training and was just as good as the other sophomore girls. I always had a love for cheerleading and now that I made it on the team I would stop at nothing. I loved to work on stunts and my technique. Any advice I got I would take that and use it to my advantage. After practice I would go home and go over what I learned with the team. I would look up tutorial videos and watch the college teams perform and so really cool stuff that blew my mind. My life revolved around cheerleading, and working to get better was something I wanted to do for myself. At times it was defiantly hard but for the love of the sport I did what I had to, and got beat up a little in the process but it was all worth it.

Cheerleading helped me find out what I wanted to do with life, and this is become an elementary school teacher. The high school cheerleaders had the opportunity over the summer to volunteer their time to help out the little youth cheerleaders. They ranged from 3^rd to 8^th graders, and it was so much fun helping them and teaching them all the cheers we knew. That was when I knew I wanted to work with young kids in my career. I can’t wait to get my job as a teacher in an elementary school. I know it doesn’t have an outstanding salary like other jobs but I am more interested in being around kids all day and being an inspiration to them. That’s what I want to do in life.