You will never know...

So I named this blog "not just spirit" because I will be blogging about cheerleading, and most people out there think of it as doing froo froo little cheers at games. For those of you who have never been to a competitive cheerleading event, it is not just doing cheers. We do flips and throw girls high in the air and catch them...it's quite dangerous. There are so many injuries in cheerleading these days. In my almost 3 years at temple I've severly sprained my ankle twice, and sprained my lower back and was sitting out for 3 months. Still sometimes hurts after over a year. In fact, I don't even like cheering for the sports team all that much. I'm all about competition. Here at Temple University, we do cheer basketball and football games, but most of the time we are practicing for nationals. This week we started learning things that we will be performing and taping to send into UCA to try to get a bid for nationals. We really need that bid because Temple Athletics gives us no help in expenses to travel to Florida to Nationals. That's a whole other story. In the tape we send we need to film us doing standing back tucks, running tumbling, and then six different kinds of stunts with different dismounts for each. We also need to show some of our 2 high pyramids like 2-2-1's and what not. So far, so good. We'll see what next week brings.