Female AOTW: Frink Middle School Cheerleaders
FEMALE AOTW:
Frink Middle School Cheerleaders
Last week, Frink Middle School Cheerleaders had an outstanding week of events with winning both Wayne and Lenoir County Fair “Best Middle School" in the cheerleading competitions. To add more icing on the cake, the Cavaliers also won the “The Best Overall Score” at the Lenoir County Fair. Here are five of the leaders from the Cheerleading Cavs:
What extent of preparation and hard work has been invested by your team to compete at this level?
Do you believe the athletic rigor of cheerleading receives the recognition it merits within the sports community?
Norah Wine: As soon as cheer practice had started for the year we all have been very dedicated. Two weeks before competition one of our bases had gotten a hernia and one of our flyers broke their wrist. They couldn’t compete, we had to change the whole routine. This process was very stressful but we worked through it. Two weeks, Monday through Friday, after school we practiced for 2-3 hours.We all had to work extremely hard to put fourth the effort for this routine to come together. We succeeded!
Do you believe the athletic rigor of cheerleading receives the recognition it merits within the sports community?
Annaliese Miller: I feel like cheerleading gets the respect and recognition it deserves, only during competition season. We work very hard to preform and compete at competitions, but we also work very hard to cheer at games and preform at halftimes. Cheerleading is much harder than people assume, it takes a lot of athleticism. I think we deserve respect for all aspects of cheer, competition and side line!
Can you speak to the camaraderie within the team? How does this bond translate to your performance in competitions?
Mallory Ham: This team has gotten so close because of working together. We learned off of each other. Doing this we all learned new things from other people, listening and having opened ideas helped a lot. We all worked very hard and had to be a family to pull it together.As a cheerleader with three years of experience, how has your prior exposure to competitions informed your approach to the current contests?
Brevyn Harrison: Having the experience has provided me with important things to tell me teammates that will help us to do our very best as we compete, that I wouldn’t have known without the experience.
Securing the best overall score at the Lenoir Fair must have been exhilarating. What does this accolade signify about the competency and cohesiveness of your team?
Lillian Oliver: It shows that all the hours and extra practices that we put in over the summer and after school were all worth it in the end. As a team, we all came together and worked very hard and we’re glad to see our hard work paid off. We, as 8th graders, were extremely excited to go out on top.
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