Personal Narrative: How To Make A Better Cheerleading

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I have been doing cheer since I was in first grade. I made the team last year and I loved it. I learned so many new thing and learned how to make myself a better cheerleader. Cheer makes me a better person. It showed me how to be a team player.
Last year, one day after my read an email said to me " You should try out for the kaneland competitive cheer team." I told all my friends about it and they decided they would try out too. On the third day of tryouts I put in 110% to give myself a better chance of making it. I tried to a cheer robot. We found out if made it at the end of that day.
After three hard days of learning dances, cheers, stunting, jumps, tumbling, and a lot of sweating it was finally time to find out if I made the cheer team

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