By TORI MARDIS
Room 210 Staff Writer
Thursday, March 8, 2007.
A bunch of us have worked hard all week and on that day after school we tried out for cheerleading. Since Monday, about 50 girls went to Joplin High School until seven o'clock every day. We stretched and jumped, worked on our toe touches and herkies. The varsity cheerleaders worked hard, teaching us our cheer and chant. They went over our routine with us a few times then we split up into groups and practiced.
Since girls from North, South, and Memorial are trying out, we normally worked with girls from our school since we knew all of them.
Mock tryouts were held Wednesday, March 7. Each girl performed in front of three varsity cheerleaders. We sprinted in, did two jumps, our chant and cheer. I was so nervous I almost got sick. A lot of other girls felt sick, too, but everyone was o.k. and tried their best.
As the time approached for the real tryout, we were all really nervous because we had to go in front of the varsity squad, coaches, and the rest of the judges. I kept going over the chant and cheer in my head.
"Hey, hey, let's fight, let's win tonight." We had to repeat it two more times.
And our cheer was "Joplin Eagles, our team is on top. JHS, we're fighting non-stop. Explosive, dynamic, you're looking at the best, we explode with spirit and eliminate the rest.
"Yell JHS, JHS, JHS."
Those who tried out from JHS were Christen Cool, Samantha Warren, Cindy Pham, Kendra Wilson, Alicia Shofner, Nikki Carter, Lacy Heiskell, Tessa Luper, Hannah Doerge, Kaylee Sexton, Loryn Ligon, and Tori Mardis.
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