Top Girls Research Paper

The words “full out” cheered out of the coach’s mouth as the cheerleaders moaned and shuffled to their starting positions. The big blue mat, filled with 15 female and 2 male, cheerleaders waited in silence for their music to start. “Your music is on,” screamed coach. The music starts five, six, seven, eight. The first stunt is thrown. The top girl glues her legs together as the bases toss her up to hit a liberty. The top girl is leveled down and the four girls add to the energy happening in front of them. The music continues, three, four, five, six. By seven hands clap together in synchronicity ready to throw jumps. On count two coach yells, “hit” and again on count four. The jumps hit flawlessly. The first fifteen seconds of the routine is
Smiles all around from every athlete. Two pyramids are being set into place. The middle girls sets on five as they are elevated onto the men’s shoulders, where she will stand and hitch her inside leg towards center. The top girls are coming from the back as the bases drive her into a liberty. Releasing one of the top girl’s feet she will step on the middle girl’s thigh. The bases give one last dip and explode, giving the top girl the momentum she needs to hit the pyramid. The pyramid hits. The top girls radiate with excitement. The top girls stay there for four counts until they look behind them to fall into a cradle catch. The excitement is radiating off of everyone. Next transition is into tumbling. All tumblers go to their assigned corners. Athletes who are not tumblers nugget on the sides of the mat and cheer on their teammates. The first tumble pass is thrown, a round off back handspring. Followed by a round off back tuck. Tumbling comes from the corners with a force of a bullet. The last tumble pass is thrown. The athlete sprints out the corner and does a round off, back handspring, layout. She ends the tumbling section of the