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So my freshman year college cheer tryouts are today and I'm so nervous I want to puke
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Good Luck!!! I'm sure you'll do great
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I was going to post this on the show your bows thread, but it's more of a random entry about my day yesterday. Here's the bow I made for the UConn spring game yesterday. I had the best time! I made bows for my roommate & her cousins. My roommate's boyfriend is on the football team & played a great game. He was awarded coaches appreciation and got to go up for the coin toss. As for the cheer squad.... they were uh "very cute"and yes, it really really kills me to describe cheerleading that way. But they didn't do much of anything. They were very nice to everyone after the game and stuck around as long as the players did to take pictures (some of the kids even asked for their autographs, so cute!). I must say, not every collegiate squad will go out of their way to make each child feel special, but they did.
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I head that UConn's cheer team used to be AMAZING, but the school got rid of it and replaced them with a "spirit squad" that can't stunt or tumble. Not sure why, though.I was going to post this on the show your bows thread, but it's more of a random entry about my day yesterday. Here's the bow I made for the UConn spring game yesterday. I had the best time! I made bows for my roommate & her cousins. My roommate's boyfriend is on the football team & played a great game. He was awarded coaches appreciation and got to go up for the coin toss. As for the cheer squad.... they were uh "very cute"and yes, it really really kills me to describe cheerleading that way. But they didn't do much of anything. They were very nice to everyone after the game and stuck around as long as the players did to take pictures (some of the kids even asked for their autographs, so cute!). I must say, not every collegiate squad will go out of their way to make each child feel special, but they did.
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I saw them stunting in warm ups, but once the game started, they just did the stuff that makes cheerleaders in the stands roll their eyes. I'm disappointed, but at least the girls were nice. The kids I was with cheer for pop warner and they were so excited meet them after the game.
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@Official OWECheer @CheerRehab UConn used to have a real cheerleading team and opted to turn them into "student ambassadors" in 2009.
"The University of Connecticut was slammed last week when it announced that it had stripped its 17-year-old cheerleading program of the gymnastic and tumbling skills that had once made it nationally competitive. Instead, the school said, competitive cheer would be replaced with a "spirit squad"—one that, according to The Hartford Courant, would be primarily focused on finding nonathletic ways to "really spread Husky spirit"—by handing out spirit buttons, for instance."
Basically UConn decided it wasn't fair that you had to have skills to make the cheerleading team, so they opted to open it to anyone with school spirit and a pretty face. I can't find the actual article anymore, but the quote above comes from an opinion column discussing it.
"The University of Connecticut was slammed last week when it announced that it had stripped its 17-year-old cheerleading program of the gymnastic and tumbling skills that had once made it nationally competitive. Instead, the school said, competitive cheer would be replaced with a "spirit squad"—one that, according to The Hartford Courant, would be primarily focused on finding nonathletic ways to "really spread Husky spirit"—by handing out spirit buttons, for instance."
Basically UConn decided it wasn't fair that you had to have skills to make the cheerleading team, so they opted to open it to anyone with school spirit and a pretty face. I can't find the actual article anymore, but the quote above comes from an opinion column discussing it.
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