Personal Essay: Tryouts In High School

287 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Sports as stress reliever

Nervous: tending to be anxious; highly strung. The word nervous couldn’t even begin to describe how I felt going into my freshman year cheerleading tryouts. It was late March in 2011 as I was leaving middle school and entering high school. I had cheered since I was little all through elementary school and all through middle school, so when the time had come for high school tryouts I was a nervous wreck. Not only were tryouts a full week, but they also consisted of learning a dance, two side-line cheers, the school fight song and a “big” cheer. I can remember tryouts being absolutely miserable for me, because they fell on Easter Break. That year for Easter I was flying to visit my dad in San Diego, but I was leaving on the second day of tryouts.

Show More
Related

  • Personal Narrative: Anxiety In High School

    446 Words  | 1 Pages

    As games went on, the butterflies went away. My freshman year, I went on the field and I felt as I could fly. Now I’m solid as a rock. I could play a game without breaking a sweat. I believe, as I go through life, I will encounter many similar anxieties. Maybe in college I will play football and have the same butterflies as I had a few years ago. I would love to experience more anxieties, it sounds weird but, I see many of them as building blocks to life. I’m always wanting to reach my goals in life. As so many butterflies as helped me achieve so many.

    Read More

  • Cheerleaders Essay

    1038 Words  | 3 Pages

    “They’re snobs.” “They’re ditzy.” “They are just brats.” Cheerleaders. There are many problems with stereotyping, and cheerleaders are no strangers to it. Every cheerleader could probably tell you a time when someone stereotyped them, whether that be them as a person or an athlete. While on some occasions cheerleaders really do fit the stereotypical vision of a cheerleader off of a movie, most are not your typical “cheerleader”; intelligent, polite, and athletic are all characteristics of these individuals. Making judgements about a person based on what sport they played is not deserved. Most people in high school would say they knew, or thought they knew how cheerleaders were, but if taking the time to get to know the kind of people they are, then people’s opinion would change.

    Read More

  • High School Athletics: A Debate Between Two Perspectives

    1016 Words  | 3 Pages

    Typically, the average day of a high school student consists of seven long hours of school; followed by an extracurricular activity. According to the National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS), as of 2014, there was a record high of nearly 7.8 million high school student athletes in the United States. Two experienced authors from The New York Times have contrasting views on athletics in schools. Amanda Ripley, the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Smartest Kids in the World, argues that sports should definitely be removed from high schools across the country. On the other hand, Donte Stallworth, former NFL player, is determined to keep children involved with sports. The main focal point for both Ripley and Stallworth

    Read More

  • My Last High School Rodeo

    1301 Words  | 3 Pages

    The reason for my nervousness was because it was the last rodeo of the High School Rodeo season. The last rodeo just so happened to be the short round of the state finals. The short round was the top 15 cowboys out of the entire state. I had qualified 15th out of about 45 other cowboys in the calf roping. That may sound like it was a great accomplishment, but it really wasn't because I knew I was better than at least ten of the other guys that qualified in front of me. I knew myself that I was someone to watch; even if no one else knew.

    Read More

  • Personal Essay: This I Believe In Athletic Career

    1350 Words  | 3 Pages

    Chp 1:This I Believe Essay There are many many times in your life where you just want to quit something. This is especially true if you are an athlete. Sports get tough and sometimes you just can't take it and you want to give up.

    Read More

  • Effects Of High School Sports Essay

    730 Words  | 2 Pages

    A common denominator that successful people share is the involvement of playing a varsity sport in high school. Every high school in the United States is different, however all encourage students to get involved. Most commonly, students decide to join sports. High school sports can cause profitable effects because students live healthier lives, achieve higher grades and learn life lessons.

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: Basketball Tryouts

    527 Words  | 2 Pages

    It was the most competitive three days of my life, basketball tryouts. This is the first time my friends and I were trying out for a school team, we were all hyped for basketball season. I entered the tryout excited and consequently energetic. Adrenaline was pulsing through all the players bodies, there were 6 foot tall 8th graders with years of experience competing against 6th graders who have never touched a basketball before for the same spots. I was in between, I was a 6th grader that had experience along with some skill. That was also my downfall, I went in overconfident and consequently cocky. I wasn’t planning on getting cut, I walked into the tryout overwrought, nothing could stop me from being on the team.

    Read More

  • Personal Essay About Competitive Cheerleading

    1632 Words  | 4 Pages

    I’ve been doing competitive cheerleading since the third grade. Competitive cheerleading being the third most dangerous sport in the world, I was going to get injured at one point or another; it just depends on when and how bad the injury is. Most cheerleaders hide injuries from coaches and other athletes to continue with the season, like if the athlete has a broken rib, jammed finger, sprained ankle, or wrist. Some injuries just cannot be ignored, like a torn ACL, achilles, obvious broken bones, concussions, or a jammed back. No athlete wants to be injured, but sometimes that’s the best thing that can happen to them.

    Read More

  • Being A College Athlete Essay

    881 Words  | 2 Pages

    College is a time for young people to develop and grow not only in their education, but social aspects as well. One of the biggest social scenes found around college campuses are athletic events, but where would these college sports be without their dedicated athletes? Student athletes get a lot of praise for their achievements on the field, but tend to disregard the work they accomplish in the classroom. Living in a college environment as a student athlete has a great deal of advantages as well as disadvantages that affect education and anti-intellectualism.

    Read More

  • Tryout Narrative

    386 Words  | 1 Pages

    I wake up to Lane shaking me. I catch my breath at first but then realize that I'm back in the real world.

    Read More

  • The Negative Effects Of Cheerleading

    1765 Words  | 4 Pages

    Cheerleading requires athletes to be strong, agile, and graceful in order to perform strenuous routines (Szwast 4). Practice and timing are essential in making a routine flow successfully. Trust, dedication, and commitment are key elements in cheerleading. Not only do flyers have to trust bases to catch them if they fall, the entire stunt group has to place trust in one another that everyone will do their job. Much like other sports such as football or volleyball, It takes effort from each person in order for things to run smoothly. In cheerleading, flyers need to trust that their bases will not only throw them in the air, but to also catch them safely. These national title seeking athletes spend hundreds of hours in the gym training for only two and a half minutes of performance time. There is much more that goes into preparing a routine than what is presented to the crowd at competition. Many athletes are very serious about the sport and even come from different states in order to get to practice. Some girls stay with what is called a “host family” which houses an athlete during competition season. At a very well known gym Raleigh, North Carolina called Cheer Extreme, it is not uncommon for athletes to leave for practice right after school and return around 12 pm (Almasy 2). Practices are usually 2-3 times a week in addition to at least 2 days of tumbling classes. They

    Read More

  • My First Week Of High School

    516 Words  | 2 Pages

    Most freshmen like me that enter the school are scared. I think the first week of the school is the easiest since there would not be a lot of homework and what you need to do is to listen to what you need for the class and know other people well in the class. But I am wrong, as soon as you get seated on your assigned seat, new teachers start to introduce themselves and start giving tons of homework. As the bell rings, I start rushing to my next class hoping that I wouldn’t be late. The first day of school is always the hardest since you don’t have any new friends and you have to sit in the cafeteria alone when it is lunch time. As day starting to go by, I found myself getting earlier and earlier to class. Talking starts to increas...

    Read More

  • The Concept Of Time, By John Mbiti

    1033 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...g a little nervous at times - like when we realized we had missed the train out of central London at one in the morning -- each moment felt so real and so raw. When we try to contrive plans we will become disappointed but when we truly embrace what is happening in the present we are more readily able to deal with it.

    Read More

  • My Journey Through High School Essay

    1541 Words  | 4 Pages

    On the night before the first day of high school, I was the most nervous thirteen year old in

    Read More

  • Sports Narrative - Volleyball Tryouts

    1090 Words  | 3 Pages

    Six long hours after departing Hotchkiss, we finally reached our destination. We pulled into the parking lot of the Super 8 just off Interstate 76 in Sterling, Colorado. Since I had been to this hotel on a previous trip to Sterling, I began wishing I had brought my swimsuit along. Mom and dad went inside and got the keys for room 129. I was so sick of riding in the car that I did not care what the room looked like as long as there was a bed for me to sleep on. As we entered the room, on the left there was the bathroom sink, a mirror, and a place to hang our "good" clothes. To the right, was the miniature bathroom. There was not enough space in there for a midget. Stepping out of the entranceway, there was a wooden dresser with a 27-inch television. By the large window, there was a small table. Two queen size beds sat on either side of the nightstand. The purple patterned quilts were quite shocking compared to everything else in the room.

    Read More

More about Personal Essay: Tryouts In High School

Open Document