October Practices…

It is officially 87 days until our national competition!  Although this may seem very far away, you would be surprised how fast a competition can spring up on you.  Like every sport, hours beyond hours go into practicing for the big day.   However, what sets cheerleading apart from other sports is that most teams practice for several games but we only get one chance to perform a two and a half minute routine. We only get one shot! It’s either we “stick it” or we don’t make it to finals.  Because this is my first post, I’d like to give you a little background information on our team.  The University of Scranton is a division three school, however, the UCA national college competition does not offer division three so we compete division two, “all girl.”  Our team is made up of 24 girls, four of those ladies being alternates.  In case of injury, we have an alternate girl for every stunt position- backspot, flyer and bases.  We can’t take any chances!  We practice three days a week not including mandatory individual workouts and team lifting twice a week.  Once November hits, we have 24 hour rules where we can’t go out the night before games which are usually every Saturday and Sunday.  While most students go home after finals in December, our team stays on campus usually up until Dec. 21. to prepare ourselves for nationals as soon as we return back to school after New Years.  We were lucky enough to get some talented freshman in this year, and I am very confident with the way practices have been running.

Cheers!

~ by msg21 on October 20, 2009.