- Jul 19, 2015
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Not that'd I'd actually call it being tough but I couldn't think of a better name for the thread. Anyway!
!!Sorry this is so long!!!
I'm a senior in school this year and this is my second year cheering football cheer and I made Varsity. (And not just because I'm a senior either) Anyway, the Varsity cheer coach is an acquired taste.
For our tryouts at my school, they're in late Early May and it's 2 days of 3 hour clinics where we learn a dance, a cheer, and a chant and preform those for 5 random judges along with jumps, a chant we made up, and tumbling/double jump the next night and we get scores that add up to Varsity, JV, and Freshman level. Pretty much the most stressful thing ever.
Anyway, the next day after learning I made Varsity, the Varsity coach called me and demanded that I needed to meet with her on Tuesday to talk things over. So I did. And she told me that she didn't think I was "good enough" for Varsity and that I wouldn't be cheering under those friday night lights until she said so, even though my tryouts squares equaled Varsity level, meaning I'd sit in uniform beside her instead of cheering. She forced me to meet with her every tuesday and thursday through all of June and half way through July because she was leaving on Vacation, for an hour each day. At those "Private" practices, she asked me to do chants and cheers that I remembered from last season and basically pointed out every single flaw and told me that I didn't try and reminded me time and time again I wasn't good enough for Varsity. On these tuesdays and thursday's, we also had open practices for freshman which she made me go to that were 2 hours long and was up my a** the whole time instead on focusing on help freshman who understood nothing about HS cheer. This went on for all of June and July and she didn't bat an eye at any of her other new varsity members and it sort of broke my confidence as a cheerleader. (She also told me that she'd make me cheer JV if I "didn't get it together even though my tryout is varsity level)
Tomorrow we start conditioning and preparing for camp from 8 in the morning till 11:30 for 2 weeks straight until camp starts and then the same time until the 13th of August for just regular practice. Don't get me started on how our conditioning gives no gains. But i'm honestly afraid of going to cheer practice because I have left every open practice until this crying. Last year during camp week, she broke out a ladder (yes you read that right, a ladder) to stand on to look over all of us while we practiced our camp dance and screamed out every flawed. We did that dance so many times a few girls came close to passing out. She once yelled at us so loud a teacher on the other side of the building heard her and she's actually very proud of that moment and tells us it all the time.
I need advice. Should I put up with her until I can get to basketball season (football ends October 30th) and enjoy myself and my senior year with extremely nicer coaches or should I quit because it's honestly making me so miserable?? I love cheerleading, it's my heart and soul and passion and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but it's hard to take when you're told you basically suck at the sport you've spent seasons perfecting.
*My high school team is not competitive, we do no stunts or tumbling, we are a strictly sideline team
!!Sorry this is so long!!!
I'm a senior in school this year and this is my second year cheering football cheer and I made Varsity. (And not just because I'm a senior either) Anyway, the Varsity cheer coach is an acquired taste.
For our tryouts at my school, they're in late Early May and it's 2 days of 3 hour clinics where we learn a dance, a cheer, and a chant and preform those for 5 random judges along with jumps, a chant we made up, and tumbling/double jump the next night and we get scores that add up to Varsity, JV, and Freshman level. Pretty much the most stressful thing ever.
Anyway, the next day after learning I made Varsity, the Varsity coach called me and demanded that I needed to meet with her on Tuesday to talk things over. So I did. And she told me that she didn't think I was "good enough" for Varsity and that I wouldn't be cheering under those friday night lights until she said so, even though my tryouts squares equaled Varsity level, meaning I'd sit in uniform beside her instead of cheering. She forced me to meet with her every tuesday and thursday through all of June and half way through July because she was leaving on Vacation, for an hour each day. At those "Private" practices, she asked me to do chants and cheers that I remembered from last season and basically pointed out every single flaw and told me that I didn't try and reminded me time and time again I wasn't good enough for Varsity. On these tuesdays and thursday's, we also had open practices for freshman which she made me go to that were 2 hours long and was up my a** the whole time instead on focusing on help freshman who understood nothing about HS cheer. This went on for all of June and July and she didn't bat an eye at any of her other new varsity members and it sort of broke my confidence as a cheerleader. (She also told me that she'd make me cheer JV if I "didn't get it together even though my tryout is varsity level)
Tomorrow we start conditioning and preparing for camp from 8 in the morning till 11:30 for 2 weeks straight until camp starts and then the same time until the 13th of August for just regular practice. Don't get me started on how our conditioning gives no gains. But i'm honestly afraid of going to cheer practice because I have left every open practice until this crying. Last year during camp week, she broke out a ladder (yes you read that right, a ladder) to stand on to look over all of us while we practiced our camp dance and screamed out every flawed. We did that dance so many times a few girls came close to passing out. She once yelled at us so loud a teacher on the other side of the building heard her and she's actually very proud of that moment and tells us it all the time.
I need advice. Should I put up with her until I can get to basketball season (football ends October 30th) and enjoy myself and my senior year with extremely nicer coaches or should I quit because it's honestly making me so miserable?? I love cheerleading, it's my heart and soul and passion and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but it's hard to take when you're told you basically suck at the sport you've spent seasons perfecting.
*My high school team is not competitive, we do no stunts or tumbling, we are a strictly sideline team