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I have been a cheerleader for eight years. I am currently a middle school cheerleader and I'm in 7th grade—which means I've cheered since I was five.
Cheerleading is my life. I love it, I love it, I love it! Many people believe cheerleading isn't a real sport, it's just standing on the sidelines yelling 'go team!' with the rest of the fans. They're wrong.
Cheerleading is, no matter how easy it may look, making everybody excited and pumped up whether we're winning by two or losing by 20. It's a lot more than just yelling—trust me. Some teams usually go to competitions, as well. Competition cheerleading is the hardest kind of cheerleading there is—yes, there are different types.
In competition cheerleading, the team works a whole year, at least three times a week, for two minutes and 30 seconds. During those 150 seconds, the team's job is to entertain the audience and wow the judges by tumbling (gymnastics), stunting (build-ups/pyramids), dancing, cheering and facials (smiling). That just goes to show you that cheerleading is not just a sport, but an extremely intense sport in which you require major muscular abilities. Cheerleading is more than a sport to me—its a lifestyle. A lifestyle I will never give up.
