Regionals here we come!

     I am beyond proud of my cheer team, we qualified for regionals today for the first time in over 6 years! Nobody will ever understand how great it feels. We have worked so hard this season and the seniors on the team now, including me, have been waiting for this moment since freshmen year. We finally qualified and our hard work is paying off!
       Let me describe the feeling: you have been working all season for one moment, you have been punched and kicked a billion times, you have fallen and gotten back up. Blood, sweat and tears all for a single, priceless moment.  Finally when the day comes you are filled with emotions. You are excited but so nervous to make one single mistake that you want to throw up. Your coach is filling you with confidence because she has also been working for this moment year after year. Other coaches keep coming up to your team telling you all "you deserve to go to regionals" and "my team has been scared shitless of your team all season." When its finally time for your team to take the mat you are just in a numb stage, you are anxious but you want to hit a perfect routine so you have to breathe and relax. You take the mat with confidence and the crowd is screaming and on their feet. You just look around and take it all in, as a senior hoping this isn't your last performance. The ready is called. Before you can register anything you are hitting stunts and throwing tumbling. You are smiling, moving your head and screaming your words, throwing flips and doing stunts all so fast you can't even process it all. When you stick your full and go crazy. Each stunt that hits the crowd gets more rowdy. Then its over, just like that you are done. Then you wait for scores, and the anticipation is just building, wondering if you are in the top four ( top four qualifies for regionals) & when your coach announces each place and gets to fifth, you can't breathe. When the words flood out and its not your team you go crazy. "And the teams advancing on to regionals are 4th place Addison" you jump up and go wild, you are crying tears of joy. All the hard practices, injuries and fights fade, all that matters is that moment you have worked so hard and it is bittersweet♥
      Moments like that are why I love the sport! I wouldn't trade my team for any other team. I'm so proud of each and every one of them, we deserve this! Next goal is state finals!