Our time is spent practicing innumerable numbers of catchy cheers, but that doesn’t mean we won’t mess up. Hours are spent tirelessly working towards perfection, but that doesn’t make us perfect.  Time after time we put up stunts, but that doesn’t mean we won’t fall. Our job is to get everyone excited for what’s happening, but we just get yelled at to “Get off the court.” It is hard to cheer people on that don’t even want us there.

I have wanted to be a cheerleader since I was five, I thought it was the absolute most amazing thing in the world to do. I idolized how the girls could throw and catch people and flip all over the football field. They were my favorite part of the game. But I never understood why people didn’t want them there. Who wouldn’t want more fans? And not only fans, but the biggest fans. We literally do backflips for you. And yes, sometimes we get in the way, but we have the best intention. I promise.

Cheerleading IS a sport. Just in a different way. We have a team and we have to work together, we work out and have hours a week at practice just like the other sports do. And yes, we do compete, we go to competitions but we also compete for your attention. We want you to cheer with us and get excited about every little detail of the game (it makes the games 20 times more fun). And for that we will never give up. We can’t. (It’s in the rule book).

On that note, I highly encourage you to give us a chance. What’s the harm in that? I mean we are your biggest fans, even if we mess up sometimes.