Dec
2
Cheerleading Nationals!
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This weekend my cheerleading team made the 5 hour (school) bus ride from Ottawa to Brampton to compete in the University and Open National Cheerleading Championships! We didn’t do as well as we’d hoped, but we still had lots of fun! Definitely something to work on for next year though! Again, I had the largest entourage there.
Three other blondes came (Erica, Micaela and Katelyn, obviously not Leah), two aunts, one friend, one dad, and one OPA! That’s right, Opa came to a cheerleading competition! Mom wished she could come, but at the last minute had to drop out because she remembered she promised a friend she would help with a murder mystery that night. It’s alright mom, you can look at the pictures and relive it that way. Speaking of pictures, here are some taken by Katelyn and me from the competition!
Me!
4/5 of the fiveblondes
Opa and I
The Western Mustangs. They were AMAZING, and got first!
This is my stunt group- Me, Erinn, Elisa and Rachel. I love them!
One of our stunts- high heel
Hope- one of the girls friend was there too- shes on the right. Shes on the Black Falcons, which is the cheerleading team from Fanshawe College in London
We have two coaches. This is me and Gareth on the way to the after party.
This is Ashley. I don't have any pictures of us together, but she just recently learned how to fit her whole fist in her mouth and is very proud.
The after party was soo much fun. It was basically all the teams at one bar. Ridiculous, but fun! Has anyone ever been to one of these competitions? Or competed in cheerleading?
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Mar
5
National Champs!
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This past weekend in Kitchener my cheerleading team (the Carleton Ravens) had its first competition…well, first competition with me on the team! The team went to Nationals in December and got 4th! At this competition- Cheer Alliance University Nationals, we were only against one team - Laval University, but we still won, and did a flawless routine both times, which I’m almost 100% sure we’ve never done at practice. Also, we got 1st out of all the University teams at the competition, and 3rd overall!
Here is a picture of us before our second run:
During our 2nd run!
After our big win!
This one I decorated a bit. Now our practices are cut down to one day a week, and we’re just doing some fundraising! If anyone is in the Ottawa area and knows of a company that would like to sponsor us…it would be appreciated!
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Lauren
Jan
15
Bring it On!
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As a couple of you may already know (probably just the sisters though…), last week I tried out for the Carleton Cheerleading team with much persuasion from my friend Aley. Well we both tried out and both made it! 
^There is a picture of them from last year. We practice three times a week, twice at a cheer gym not so conveniently located for those of us in residence (but more about that in a bit), and the third practice is in our gym here at Carleton. Last night we had our practice at the cheer gym, and the bus there was pretty good, Aley and I met up with three guys on the team before we left and bused with them, but the way home we weren’t that lucky. The guys went home with someone else, and Aley and I were left with three other girls to bus home. Only one of them was going back to campus, so I stuck with her. Our first bus was about 5 minutes late, and our second bus was about 10 minutes late, so when we got off the second bus to get on the OTrain, it was 12:00, and the OTrain shut down at 11:45. Talk about perfect timing…not. So we called a cab since no other buses were running to Carleton, and we waited…and waited…and waited. Finally after 3 calls to the cab company, 45 minutes later, and a whopping hour and 45 minutes after practice ended, the cab arrived. It felt so good to be in that warm car after standing in a freezing cold transit way station in Greenboro. Our next practices are on Thursday(on campus), and Friday(Cheer Gym), but hopefully it will go better this time!I’ll post more pictures from the Basketball game, which is on January 26th(ish…I think), See ya later!Lauren
