If you cheered in high school each one of these statements apply to you. It doesn’t matter if you have or will cheer in college, nothing beats the "Friday Night Lights" and the people you’ve called team for 18 years.
1. “I can not move.”
Now, this is a different “I can’t move” from the one you remembered saying not long after summer cheer camp. This is every day. This is the crack of your hips and knees when you try to do yoga or get out of bed in the morning. This is worse pain than you've ever felt. Plus, it's here for the long haul. Yay us, right?
2. I don’t care how old you may get, UCA Nationals at Disney World is the Super Bowl to all cheerleaders former and present.
Oh, and trust me, we catch more errors and deductions than any judge.
3. Bloody nose, bruised arms, hands, and legs. But, what beats hitting that perfect full-up full-around with your favorite people?
I'll tell you right now I have never failed at anything more than I have at cheerleading. Plus, getting it on video is so worth it.
4. The words “full-out” still haunt you in your sleep.
Coach never meant "last-time" when she said last time.
5. You remember that one song from that one routine that literally could drive you mad?
6. In the last 12 years of my cheerleading career I have never once used “spirit fingers.”
Probably because this guy is a creep
7. Girls these days with the privilege of Nike pros never understood the real horror of spank wedgies.
8. Every Friday night spent under the lights next to our best friends was worth every single sacrifice we ever made.
9. If we were to try to stunt now, we would probably end up in the hospital.
10. Most importantly, we desperately want our future daughters and sons to be the University of Kentucky’s first pick for blue squad come their year.
