Cheerleading

Cheerleading has been something I have participated in for twelve years. I love cheer and how it can push you beyond what you thought you could ever do. I started out when I was only six years old and have continued to push myself to become the best I can be. I was in all-star cheerleading first and let me tell you that is it different then high school and college cheer. All-Star cheerleading is my favorite because of how they work. There are many cheer gyms around and competitions around the world. I think all-star cheer is way better than middle and high school ever was. Even though I competed for middle and high school cheerleading, there is nothing better than being on a big stage in front of a lot of people and competing at an all-star level. I have competed for two all-star teams which are Top Notch All-Stars and Champion All-Stars. Both were and still are great teams to be on and they both have amazing tumbling skills. When it comes to competing at an all-star event there are multiple teams and different divisions that everyone is in. However, there is still normally about 20-40 different gyms, with about 5 levels per gym that come out and compete. Also there are a lot of individual cheerleaders that compete between many of the other cheerleaders alone. High school cheerleading normally doesn't have that many squads to compete in one day. For competitions at an all-star level there are many throughout the year but, when it gets close to end of the season there are nationals that many squads can compete at to see if they can move on to worlds. For high school cheerleading there are many competitions that cheerleaders take part in and when the end of the season starts to come around the competition gets harder. The reason is because you go to regionals and see if you qualify then if you do you go to state which here in Ohio it's hosted at Ohio State University, just like any other sport team goes that has qualified for state. At state there are many squads that come but, they do get divided up in divisions which help a little. However, there are still at least about fifteen squads per division.  I am proud to say that all four years that I was in high school my cheerleading team had qualified for state. My freshman year we got 6th place, sophomore year we got 4th place, junior year we got 5th place and senior year we got 6th place.