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[quote=Anonymous]Op,

I have a daughter who is in Cheereleading varsity team. She never was specifically prepped for it and never even had interest in doing it. She had several years of gymnastics experience in the young age, than a lot of dancing, than three years of swimming in the middle school. She got in the track team in the 9th grade, and then decided to try out for cheerleading in 10th grade since the track would not start until later in fall. She loved it and stayed for 11th grade as well. 
I would never ever push my child to any sports to begin with. It is a time for them to try and explore themselves, so let them do it. Failure to get on the team will be a oriceless lesson. As to weather this a sport or not: the do have extensive training every single day Monday-Friday's, games on Friday nights or Saturday's and competitions over the weekends. Daily training involves a 3 hours of running, full body conditioning and stretching in addition to learning choreography. So, it is very intense and gives her a great lean body.

As to the concept of mean girls at the team, I have not heard from my daughter anything. I could see some of them might be that type ( it is just my pure observation). My daughter is nerdy, all A students, taking all AP classes, competing in the science contests and Olympiads on the National level, did STEM program at the Naval Academy, etc. So, there are no time for a bad behavior, but at the same time doing something that she enjoys after the school takes a lot of stress and pressure. She also was a new kid in this high school who came in the middle of the year, and I didn't see other girls been not nice to her even that she is not your typical cheerleading girl. [/quote]

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