Descriptive Speech About Cheerleading

From the nerve racking moment of you and two other girls at tryouts getting the most unappealing looks. But no matter how much they give you a blank stare, you have to always smile and never lose eye-contact. We would even put Vaseline on our teeth so we wouldn’t drop our smiles. That is the most awful taste if you closed your mouth. Then one of the veteran cheerleaders, Emmy, would say “Rock with the red and roll with the black.” We all clapped and started the cheer. We all spoke in harmony “Hey, Eagles you know what you got to do, you got to rock with the red and roll with the black.” We repeated this 3 times. It was the longest 2 or 3 minutes of my life. It was different to be extremely loud and show spirit after every single thing. I wasn’t use to being outgoing. I was more reserved and to myself but that changed when I made the middle school cheerleading squad.

Over time, cheerleading terminology became a second nature to me. When you hear us say “liberty, high V, broken T, candlesticks, buckets”. We are not talking about objects or the alphabet. These words reflect a motion. Also, when you hear “toe-touch, tuck, hook, hurdler, and herkie” we are referring to a jump. We danced with numbers but it started over at 8. You would hit a different motions for a certain number. It would be like “1 and 2, 3, 4, down 5, 6, 7, and 8.” Our hearts

Seeing those red, black and white colors come through the sign every Friday night lead by cheerleaders running with flags was thrilling. I never wanted the last letter cause if the people in front of you are running slow you might get trampled by a stampede filled with 80 horses. On the field cheering it felt like I was another person. It was like living a double life. Cheering made my voice heard. Doing those different cheers it felt like every motion, every word, and every smile mattered. It helped the crowd. It helped the boys. It the cheerleading squad. It helped