Summer Cummins is a senior at Madison High School. During the winter sports season she participates in not only basketball cheerleading, but also competition cheerleading. She started cheerleading for football and basketball her junior year, and continued throughout her senior year while additionally doing competition. She spends almost everyday of her week at practices, games or competitions. Sometimes she will have a competition and game in the same day. “Cheerleading for both basketball and competition is very time-consuming, but my teammates and coach make it enjoyable and it’s a different experience everyday. Some practices we just do jumps or conditioning, sometimes we do our dances, and other days we practice our cheers.” Although it keeps her busy, she enjoys spending her free time cheerleading.
Although both of these activities are cheerleading, Summer says that the experience differs. For basketball cheerleading the main priority is cheering on the basketball players. Practices consist of practicing their cheers and working on dances for halftime. At a competition practice they practice their routine and make changes needed to try to score higher at their next competition. Summer says that at competition practices they really focus on jumps and technical parts of their routine so that they will score high at competitions.
Summer says that she likes doing competition cheer more than basketball. “I like traveling to different competitions and spending time with my friends and team. Competing is fun and more interactive than basketball.”
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