Week of First Cheer Competition

This week I had cheer practice on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. The practices this week were way better than they have been the rest of the season. My team had our showcase on November 3rd and we did not perform very well. Our routine had 4 deductions at the showoff and we have been working to get that number down to 0. Every practice we have moved our deductions down by one so by the end of the week we only had 1. This set us up perfectly for our competition on Saturday to hit with zero deductions and helped everyone feel very confident going into the weekend. This would not have been possible without learning outcome 5 because the team had to learn to work together and rely on each other to do their job. We were able to be successful because people worked together towards our goal of hitting zero. In addition, this was tied to learning outcome 4 because we had to persevere through our very difficult practices and stay committed to showing up everyday ready to workout and give our all into practice. Some of us really had to test our commitment and perseverance because a few friends and I had strep throat the whole week and had to practice on top of that.