Cheering On College Sports

Even though my favorite aspect of cheerleading is stunting my second favorite aspect of cheerleading is cheering at games. normally cheerleader, on top of practice, also cheer and appear at games at least twice a week and some weeks there are 3 games in one week that we must attend. We cheer are games no matter the weather.No matter if its raining, sunshine or freezing temperatures. Games are the most exciting and thrilling part of cheerleading. Here at Saint Johns we cheer for soccer and basketball. Due to the very successful soccer team the turn out of fans for the soccer games are great and it is defiantly great to cheer on your team with so many other supporters around. It defiantly effects a game when the fans are there and they join in with us. If there were no fans the games wouldn't not be as fun. For soccer games we cheer at Belson stadium. However for basketball we cheer at Carnesecca arena as well as at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN!!! The thrill of cheering at madison square garden is unbelievable the rush you get when you walk out onto the court to cheer on your team and you look up into the stand sand see how big the arena actually is. IT IS MIND BLOWING.


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Cheer Camp

This year was my first year going to college cheer camp. High school cheer camp is not the same as college cheer camp. First off at college cheer camp we stay in dorms. And the food is a lot better at college cheer camp. However college cheer camps are a lot more difficult. Since this was the first time I was at college camp there was a lot for me to learn. There were new pyramid to learn and new stuns and new techniques to learn. So this year I was very excited to learn anything. Cheer camp was approximately 4 days. And every day started with breakfast. After breakfast we would head to our classes. We would have a cheer class and a stunting class and then a pyramid class. Then we would go to lunch. after lunch we would find a quiet place on campus and go over cheers. Than once lunch was over we would go back to classes.  We would go to stunting class, pyramid class and basket class. Then we would go to dinner. After dinner we were given time to go over our stunts and have a UCA staff member critique us and help us to fix our cheers and stunts up. And we did this every day. And the last day we perform our stunts and get judged and get placed and get awards.

Cheerleading Nationals Skills Tape

The days are dwindling down and now we must all start thinking about cheerleading nationals. Our qualification tape is due soon and now the team is trying to perfect out stunts.  The qualifications tape is sent into UCA and if you score high enough they could give you a bid. And a bid is when UCA gives you money toward your trip to nationals as well as you get to skip different round if you are that good. We are now starting to try new stunts and getting out stuns up to par to tape and send in.  We start at the easy things and then once we succeed at the easy things as a team we proceed on in difficulty. However it is vital they we succeed at things as a team. Our qualifications tape is a TEAM SKILLS tape. Every group must be able to hit the difficult stunt. If one group can’t do it we must try something else or continue trying until we all can do the most difficult stunt we can do together as a team.  Your team is only as strong as your weakest team member.

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Cheerleading Injuries

there is a large risk while being a cheerleader that you will get injured.  All sports present a risk of being injured. Even sports like ping pong can cause injuries. What makes cheerleading particularly well known for injuring team member is because of the type of injuries cheerleaders suffer. While cheerleaders can easily suffer common injuries like sprains and strains, “a few widely publicized studies note that cheerleaders suffer more injuries resulting in death or paralysis than any other sport including football.  This, coupled with the widely publicized death of cheerleaders like Lauren Chang, has caused many organizations to tighten regulations around the types of stunts cheerleading squads can perform and the safety precautions squads should take.” “Nearly 25,000 Cheerleaders Ended up in the Emergency Room in 2007” however most of these injuries were minor injuries such as sprained ankles, twisted knees or other more minor injuries.  However cheerleading is very competitive sport not only with other teams but also with in teams themselves. If one of us gets hurt if you step out you can easily be replaced. So if you were to get hurt would just shake it off and keep going unless it is a very serious or critical injury. however no matter what a cheerleader represents the strngth to pull through and in the end end up alright.

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danielle