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Personal Narrative-My First High School Cheerleading

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My first high school cheerleading tryouts were coming up and I was so nervous. Before I knew it tryouts were here. The tryouts were on April 15th and 16th. We have had two open gyms that week and that helped me calm down, but I was still really nervous. On Saturday we had it from 11 A.M to 5 P.M. I got there around 10:30 because that's when you could start checking in. You will never believe how many girls were there. We didn't get a lunch break so we just had snack breaks and drink breaks. I was starving by the end of the day because I only ate granola bars and fruit snacks in those six hours. Also, during that time I had to learn a cheer, floor cheer, chant and a hard dance. When I saw the dance I had the oh-my-gosh-I’m-going-to-die look. …show more content…

So Sophia, Lynse, Macy, and I Went to Panda Express. After that, we just went to Emily's house. We practiced the cheer and the dance over and over. Then her mom made us this amazing homemade ice cream. Shortly after that Lindsay's dad came and picked us up. We went to Lynse’s house, just to go over some of the materials we needed to know for tryouts. After Lynse’s, I was dropped off at my house. I practiced a little by myself and then went to bed. Next thing you know it's Sunday morning. Today was 1 P.M to whenever it was over. I got there around noon because that's when we could stretch out and do what we needed to. I felt really confident, I was getting spotted on my back handspring and hitting everything. I found out my group. I was with one senior one Junior and another freshman. We were the fifth group. When my group was called we looked at each other and headed for the gym. The judges asked us a few questions and I think I answered perfectly. We did all of our materials and we were

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