Cheerleading can be pretty brutal.... Sara's all star team competed in Irvine past weekend at COA Nationals which is a huge event held at the UC Irvine Bren Center. We all knew going into this weekend was going to be rough with so many of our team members being sick and a couple members being slightly injured prior to the event.Sara sucked it up and so did the rest of the team, and even though Sara and so many other team members weren't in good health they did a wonderful job.
Carrissa, one of our injuried team mates (shoulder Injury) does a wonderful job holding Sara up with Joey's help. Two Man stunts with girls holding the girls in the air give us more points, then a boy holding the flyers.
The coaches even changed parts of the routine from Saturday's comp to Sunday's and they all did great. They even told the team after competing that no matter whats happens they are very proud of them all for competing when some were ready to pass out, some wanted to sleep, some throw-up and some were hurting do to injuries.
The coaches telling them they did a good job was nice to hear since they don't usually tell the kids that.
Unfortunately, the illness and injuries didn't play to our favor and they just weren't as clean as the other teams so we took 5th place out of 6. It's all good though, three weeks ago we placed 3rd out of 7 in Las Vegas; and we still have the Varsity All Levels International Competition Coming up in April.