Football comes to an end:(

I absolutly love Friday night football:)

I love being a varsity cheerleadr. I remember being a little girl in elementary and looking up to the varsity cheerleaders at the pep rally and wanting to be one of them one day. Well my dream came true. and i love every minute of it.
Lots of work goes into being a cheerleader.. its not just put on you uniform and go scream and hollar for every game.

First off it cost a bit of money to buy everythign from camp clothes... to two different uniforms.
Then every cheerleader has their own cheerleader and this year we each had two. and every friday morning we bring stuff to go with the theme for that week for our football players. such as candy, and gatorade.
Then we have to spend time practicing.
and on top of that we have to make signs for the game which takes a bit of time.
Then Thank God im a junior this year. but if you are a soph. you have to carry the run through sign every game.
Also we have pep rallies frequently.. which are so much fun.

My favorite pep rally is the black-out pep rally:)
it is so much fun.
we start off by selling the black out tshirts.
then on friday we sell glow sticks and we sold around 4 thousand i think this year.
then it takes some time..but we have blackouts all around they gym floor and a tunnel with a fog machine for the team to run through. we cover up all the huge windows thank God for our cheerleader sponsors husband:)
then around 2:00 on Friday the whole school gets in the gym.. and they turn off all the lights and their are hundreds of little kids on one side and highschoolers and middles schoolers on the other. and thousands of glow necklaces everywhree. the band starts playing and the team comes in through the fog. the cheerleadres glow with paint of whatever on them. and the whole pep rally is spent like that. its so much fun to hear all the little kids go crazy when the lights go out:) it makes everyone super excited about that nights game.

The senior pep rally and the pep rally before the playoff game was tied together. Our theme was roll over the devils. So we brought tons and tons of rolls of toilet paper and during the pep rally we rolled the gym. of course everyone had fun throwing it everywhere ecspecially the little kids. But the after effect was insane. there was toilet paper everywhere and guess who had to clean it all up???? the cheerleaders:) we had so many bags of toilet paper it wasnt funny.. and get this our school is having to do fundraisers for toilet paper in the elementary????haha


Anyways...
Its kinda sad that this years football season has officially ended. It seems so unreal that this was my last year cheering before being a senior:( feels like just the other day I tried out for my first year as a middle school cheerleader. I have cheered for 12 years this year:) and i loved every minute of it. I am a top and not scared a bit. Camp was lots of fun this year with the wallace state cheerleaders. My group dominated. For the first time ever I fulled down from an arabesque:) we did switch libs and tons of other stuff it was so much fun. But i have to say i was scared once when the two guy cheerleaders on our squad and one of our really strong girls, and one of the wallace state cheerleaders who used to be a football player threw me in a basket toss. No joke.. I went so high that it hurt a bit when they caught me. but it was still fun & I would do it again:)

But back to football. we had a good season this year:) and we made it to the first round of the playoffs. the paper had predicted that we would win and even some of the elkmont people thought we would win. Our guys were so pumped Thursday because the coach said if they won they would all get to keep their white jerseys. But unfortunatly things didnt turn out so great at first they scored.. then we scored. so i thought alright maybe well hang in there. but unfortunately they ending up scoring one after another. It was a sad way to end the season for the seniors.

But i really had a blast cheering this year. and its gonna be sad when march comes around and its my last cheer tryout:( but for now its basketball season... which starts tom.