A New Experience

Who knew coaching cheer would be so much fun! The first year I started coaching youth cheer was in 2009, I seriously thought I wouldn’t be able to handle it because these little girls were so much to handle. As I began coaching I stared learning how each girl had there own personality, which ones were the quiet ones, loud ones, the most talkative, the ones that were good in everything and those that were going to need help. I knew from the start I got myself into something I would have to be dedicated to and not shy. I am not the type of person to yell or punish someone, but as the days went by I started using my voice, (yelling).

The girls started liking me they would come up to me calling me coach and  it did feel good being called coach. The other cheer coaches liked me as well and liked all the cheers, dances, and stunts I was teaching them. So I became a competition coach, and when you get offered to be a competition coach it basically means they want you to be a permanent cheer coach. I was happy, I felt like I did my job better than they expected knowing that I am a very quiet person around them.  They gave me my age group that I would be coaching for competition and they were 8 year olds, I was getting nervous because I didn’t think I would have been able to handle them but surely and slowly I did. The girls loved everything I taught them and they like me. We would practice cheer competition 2 days out of the whole week, and I didn’t think that I was going to be able to get everything I wanted done on time. So as a coach I had to be productive and call a practice of my own. Coaching them took a lot of hard work, patience, and dedication. As the days passed the competition routine started coming along, and I was getting nervous because I knew other teams were going to have better stunts than my group. Finally, competition day came.

When I arrived to the stadium I was so nervous, maybe even more nervous then the girls. I still had a lot of time until it was my team turn to go up on stage, so I took them to practice their routine. As they were practicing the routine there was a bunch of mistakes, I was getting even more nervous/anxious. I gathered my girls together, and we all took deep breathes and just thought positive. Finally, they called us up and I cheered my girls on as they ran onto the stage. They were set waiting for the music to start, I had never felt my heart pounding so hard and so much butterflies in my stomach. The music stared and they started the routine, wow they surprised me. The whole crowd was on their feet cheering for them and even the judges wereon standing up. I couldn’t have been any happier, and excited. Then, it was time to announce the winners; 3^rd place The Cowboys (our biggest competition) , 2^nd place The Braves, I heard my girls screaming, 1^st place, Mid Valley Titans!!!! (my team). I was a proud coach that day. Since that day, I loved coaching my girls.