Cheerleading Dilemma

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I'm a tom boy who wants to try out for cheerleading. No one thinks i should but i want to.....what should i do? I luv talking/being in sports of all kinds, but i really want to cheer. The guys are all making fun of me now because i am a tomboy and they think that i couldn't do it, but that makes me want to cheer even more. .....what should i do? Should i cheer or should i keep my reputation and stick to sports...real sports! (no offense to cheerleaders, i mean muddy and dirty sports where you hit stuff and catch stuff other than human beings. Please take no offense at this!)

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	katie	25-Mar-08

drill team and pom at my school were what people tried out for after they didn't make cheerleading. that's why pom and drill team tryouts were ALWAYS after cheer tryouts.

	katie	25-Mar-08

and drill team? uh sure, that's if you like throwing a flag around and doing steps to incredibly slow songs... it's second rate to cheerleading.

	katie	25-Mar-08

hun, my parents are from Ohio and if you know anything about football at all, you'd know that we're raised on football there. everyone is huge for Ohio State. and i'm not a big pro fan. i'd rather watch college sports any day because i sports and like to watch people who play for the of the game, not just people who money. i don't know why you think it's hard to believe a cheerleader would know anything about football though. hello, we cheer at games... and in powderpuff i normally played running back, though because the whole thing was put together in a little over a week and only a couple practices, obviously it wasn't very organized. they stopped the football games after my senior year though because one girl broke her nose and another (one of the girls on our soccer team and we were *#!ed) tore her ACL. and yeah, i'm glad you're trying out as a joke. obviously you realized you wouldn't be very good at it so you're going to tell everyone at school that when you were considering trying out you were actually just joking. that's ok, whatever keeps you from embarassing yourself...

	hailee	25-Mar-08

oh well then...i hate to break it to you katie but..... i actually like cheerleading...but oh well.....i don't really want to do it anymore... oh well...this will make you happy...i'm trying out just as a joke! It will be ... the real thing i'm doing is gonna be drill team...better than cheerleading....I hope that makes you really happy! btw, I hope you enjoyed football. WHat was your position? My fave position is wide reciever even though i'm thinking i wanna be the qb or the half back...maybe a full back or a lineman...What's your favorite professional team? I'd l-u-v to hear what you think of football....and then you can tell me everything you know...haha

	katie	11-Mar-08

it's pretty obvious you just wrote this article to make of cheerleading and act like you're too good to do it. don't try out then if you don't want to. but leave us alone and grow up.

	katie	11-Mar-08

i was in competitive gymnastics for a number of years. i STARTED gymnastics when i was 5 and had a backhandspring by the time i was 6. i played club and varsity soccer for many years and traveled around the country for tournaments. i also thoroughly enjoyed track but wasn't able to do it past my sophomore year in high school because i was so busy with both all-star cheerleading and competitive soccer. the only time i was able to play football was once a year when they had powder-puff, though my soccer friend and i tried to play football as a kicker one year (the coach said no). so it's ny that you do the "you don't know me" crap and pretend like i'm judging you, while you're the one judging me as a prissy girl who has never done any other sport besides cheerleading. you already know the kinds of injuries i have had from cheerleading and i have cheered on both one of the top all-star and college programs in the Nation. you probably don't have what it takes to do cheerleading and you obviously have no clue what it takes becasue you're assuming it's nothing but jumping around on the sidelines. maybe that's what your team does and if they do, i'm sorry but they suck. but around here we do real cheerleading and you don't have what it takes and you sure wouldn't have friends by walking around insulting the thing that our lives have practically been dedicated to.

	hailee	09-Mar-08

see katie, here's where the "you don't know anything about me" part comes in.... i'm in gymnastics,and i have been in gymnastics since i was 8....i can do standing back tucks,back handsprings,and other stuff, if i didn't kno how to do that stuff i probably wouldn't try out... and again i probably wont do it because all there is is a bunch of girls trying out that are like you... i kno nothing really of cheerleading...i kno about football and baseball....now have you tried either of those???? then you can come back and tell me cheerleading is better (even though it really isn't)

	katie	29-Feb-08

PS - i'm not talking about roundoffs and cartwheels, just so you don't come back and say "i can already do it and it's ." i'm talking about the real tumbling passes that you won't even get to right away, like standing back tucks, fulls, whip passes, etc.

	katie	29-Feb-08

listen, if you think it's then it's just not for you. why did you write this? just to insult us? my injuries weren't from tripping and falling. they're from the stress that tumbling constantly puts on your body. you haven't ever tumbled or stunted, but it puts some extreme stress on your body. it looks , but i advise you to try it and see that you're wrong. but i also advise you not to go around saying this stuff to the cheerleaders at your school, because if you try out and DO make the squad, you will be miserable. i sure as heck wouldn't be to a person who constantly insults the sport that makes up such a huge part of my life and who i am today simply because she doesn't know anything about it.

	hailee	27-Feb-08

dude well i kno you get injured....you can get injured jump-roping... but you didn't give me a chance to explain myself...so you kno nothing of what i kno... maybe a little....but still not enough to be like this

	katie	27-Feb-08

hun, i never said i know everything, but i know much more than you, obviously. and i'm not being a brat. you just offended me, and like i said, by simply saying "don't take offense," it doesn't take care of it. that's like saying "you're face is ugly!!! no offense though." if you're truly a gymnast you'd realize how difficult cheerleading really must be (real cheerleading). i began as a gymnast too. i was a competitive gymnast for years before i tried out for cheerleading. i've cheered at some of the most competitive all-star and college squads in the Nation and now i coach a college squad of my own (i'm only 21). i haven't tumbled in about a year, but when i cheered i had a double full and a standing full. if you think that's or that there are no injuries and we don't sweat, you're sadly mistaken.

	hailee	24-Feb-08

thank you... i'm already in gymnastics.... our squadf at my school is pretty bad though... not a lot of lifting or throwing...haha it sucks though

	kati	24-Feb-08

You should do whatever makes you happy. But if you do try out you should make sure that you make it. You can do this by working out before try outs. You could go to a gym to tone your body so it is prepared for the jumping and lifting requred for cheerleading. Also you could go to a gymnastics or cheer gym and learn to tumble so you are prepared for the squad.

	hailee	23-Feb-08

well katie i'm sorry that i can't kno everything about cheerleading like you... i'm sorry i can't be that way... this is why i don't do cheerleading. .. cheerleaders (some of them like you) are brats if u don't kno everythhing about it!

	katie	21-Feb-08

and the other stuff wasn't "crap." i was explaining to you why you're wrong. if you can't handle it, do some research next time before you open your mouth (or in this case, type).

	katie	21-Feb-08

exactly how you wrote it*

	katie	21-Feb-08

i didn't take it the wrong way though. i took it exactly how you took it. you obviously don't even know what you said was wrong.

	hailee	21-Feb-08

katie, you can disagree but you don't have to say all the other crap..... don't take offense means "don't take it the wrong way"...

	katie	19-Feb-08

hailee, just by saying "dont take offense" doesn't give you the right to say whatever you want without us disagreeing.

	katie	19-Feb-08

hailee, just by saying "dont take offense" doesn't give you the right to say whatever you want without us disagreeing.

	katie	19-Feb-08

hailee, just by saying "dont take offense" doesn't give you the right to say whatever you want without us disagreeing.

	Nia	17-Feb-08

If u really want to try out go for it! Im a cheerleader but my school is mostly african american and hispanic and also its a middle school so we dont really throw eac her in the air and stuff so really try it you may like it. My cheerleading squad aint really snobs they just got bad attitudes

	hailee	17-Feb-08

katie, i said NOT to take offense in what i said. and when i said hitting i don't mean people. my other problem with it is that the cheerleaders at my school are total snobs....that's not how i roll. Cheerleaders don't notice me so they couldn't hate me. I don't care really if you would hate me. everyone else that replied, thank-you for your advice but i still don't kno if i should tryout or not.

	1st Sarge E. D.	15-Feb-08

That's up to you. If you want to stick with the sports, that's great!

	=Azze=	15-Feb-08

You should do what you want, don't listen to anyone else.

	katie	13-Feb-08

and you're insane if you think you don't get hit during cheerleading. please go watch a practice somewhere. bodies hurt a heck of a lot more than a ball hitting you, and i've played soccer in the snow and that frickin stings when you get hit with the ball when it's that cold.

	katie	13-Feb-08

you obviously don't know cheerleading if you think it's not occasionally a dirty sport and not a real sport. we had several bloody noses during the 3 years i cheered at the University of Central Oklahoma and i had my eyebrow busted open with an elbow which bled a ton (your head has a lot of blood vessels so any hit to the head willb bleed a lot). not to mention i've torn my achilles tendon and broken my back in cheerleading, among tons of other injuries like concussions and a torn MCL and torn ligament in my thumb... considering you're still insulting us, just don't even try out. you'll be miserable if you walk in there with the squad and tell them they're not athletes, because they're gonna hate you. i would.