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Related: About this forumCheerleaders Surround Girl From Rival Team Who Was Cheering All Alone
http://www.reshareworthy.com/cheerleaders-join-lone-cheerleader/Being on a cheerleading squad usually means a team experience, but that wasnt Tori Adams felt when she was the lone member of her squad to show up to cheer on her school.
But Tori wasnt alone for long, when girls from the opposing squad joined her on the court at the CLAA Conference Tournament in Missouri.
It turns out that Tori was all alone because all the other girls on the cheer squad for the Northwestern Eagles came down with an illness except for her.
It was quite a dramatic turn of events, but Tori felt obligated to represent her school. She told told FOX4 News: My coach gave me the option to cheer or not cheer, and I felt like I had to be there for the team.
In this video clip, Tori, who is dressed in a blue outfit, was looking a bit embarrassed and scared in front of the large audience all by herself. But she is soon surrounded by girls from the Hardin-Central cheer squad all total strangers to Tori.
More and a video at link
mahina
(18,938 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,727 posts)That actually moved me to tears.
And that, dear friends, is what sportsmanship is all about.
sarge43
(29,155 posts)will be our salvation.
OhNo-Really
(3,991 posts)Richard D
(9,352 posts)Thank you.
niyad
(119,888 posts)LisaM
(28,594 posts)and it was the norm at high school games for the cheer leading squads to go over and do a cheer for the other school's fans, which was generally reciprocated. Our band would also learn, and play, the other team's fight song for every game. Fans from both schools would applaud these performances.
I'm glad that this kind of sportsmanship seems to be getting resuscitated.
Paladin
(28,755 posts)And for the better.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)One game in particular, when the opposing team's cheerleaders used their much greater numbers to quickly learn our cheers, and then drown us out, inserting their team's name while stealing our cheers. It was brutal--and these were grade-schoolers.
So heartening to hear that kids these days, at least some of them, have evolved.
ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)Sam McGee
(347 posts). . . and the kids from the Florida school shooting . . . maybe there's hope for us.
yesphan
(1,599 posts)Canoe52
(2,963 posts)Thanks for sharing!
littlemissmartypants
(25,483 posts)Thanks stonepounder.
GopherGal
(2,400 posts)...that got in here when I was looking at the Michelle Obama pictures is back at it again.
littlemissmartypants
(25,483 posts)To watch without crying, no luck.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)With kids like these you can rest assured that our country is in safe hands. As for the hands it is in right now.
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