Being a D1 Cheerleader at a Power Five Conference

I actually went on my Twitter, um today. I have a Twitter Twitter, but it's I haven't used it since. So a lot of my Twitter feed is like mag convoys like nash Gar and Cameron Dallan direction one direction type beat. So Cassie, how are you doing. I'm doing amazing. Yeah, living a dream. I'm living a dream. So what's really nice about me and Castie's lives is we are constantly busy, um, which is good. We we do it to ourselves, you know what I mean. I would not change it by

any means, but it definitely gets a little. I blame nobody but myself. What's that? I blame nobody but myself? Oh, yeah, yah, yeah, yeah,

this is a million percent in my fault. So hey, we want to talk about expectation versus reality in terms of the world of game day cheerleading, because a lot of times, you know, we're sharing for the fans and all the fancy is a bunch of people and these weird costumes being really loud and really extra for no reason, right, I mean that's kind of like the basic like, oh

here come, the cheerleader is always doing the most. So basically, what we want to do today is talk about all of the different things at or kind of behind the scenes, things that maybe most people don't see or don't think about when we do what we do. So what the ladies get to do is get up two hours before we're supposed to be there and put on what's called game day ready. Castie, would you explain to them what

game day ready is. See, I feel like I'm not the right person to talk to you about this because I do my game day makeup every day, but today, um, like I can get ready pretty fast, but like a lot of the girls don't wear makeup every day, so it takes them like a little bit longer. I'm just like used to I'm used to slang so hard every day. Okay, so you got you like your own sleigh routine. Yeah, yeah, what's your fastest time? M five minutes? Not by choice?

Explain that for me? Um, what was that like the second game, second second football game of this season, so we got to be there a fifteen and yeah, that's a whole another situation. But um, I did not wake up. I didn't wake up like that was not like I was asleep. I could have slept for so long and I don't know how I got up. And it's by the grace of God that I set an alarm for eight am because I was planning on leaving at eight am, So I was like, you're I gotta be out the

door alarm. That was my like okay, you gotta you gotta go, like you gotta go now. No that it turned out to be my no, you gotta get out of bed alarm. And I literally remember I was putting on my uniform, putting my hair in, like my my bow in, and also like simultaneously like letting my lashes dry. Like I was a mess. And I think I left my room at like eight oh seven. So you did all that in seven minutes and I still slid, like

I literally ate that game up. Well, I was like, I was thinking about like when you showed up and you told us, You're like, yeah, I get up ten minutes ago. I was like, there's no way because it looked like normal. Luckily, I normally, for at least like morning games, and usually for um like afternoon games, I'll curl my hair the night before, so then I just have to like, oh this, Like I just like huh. But yeah, Luckily that night before I curled my hair, so that was out of the way, and then I

will say I didn't wear any foundation that day. So crazy. God, I hate the guy's routines so much. I was, um, j C, he's the night, not tonight, the day of the last game we just had when we have to be there at like and Jonah had just gotten on the shower and I was like, we have to leave soon. Like you realize that Jona is a funny example because he doesn't have to do his hair. He's like trained his story to do exactly what it needs to do. Like it looks styled, don't even wrong, it looks style,

it looks good. But it's like he's trained his hair too dry and exactly what it looks amazing. Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, I mean if it's uh, we gotta I'm like, um five, I'll start like that's insane. It's as you put on your uniform and and I'm a bad example because I like to, you know, make sure all my hair is looking good or everything. Um. But yeah, it probably takes like three minutes, you know. Three. Yeah, it must have to shave. That's a different story, but

like ten. Yeah, your life is so hard. Yeah, it's tough. So after we all get ready, after we all get there, we go into the stadium. For football, we use the corners locker room. For basketball, we have our own locker room, our locker rooms in the Simbly Hall, so it makes it nice and easy. Um, and we just hang out,

you know, vibe. Um. I usually in charge of the music because I feel like most people come in n not really ready to roll, and I'm like that has a change, So play some good music, get everybody going, act a little bit over the top, just to get everybody awake most of the time. Um. And then we go to let's let's go football first, Yeah, go to the walk that actually might be one of my favorite

parts of game day. I think that's my favorite part of game really, like overall, it's definitely top three for me, like overall, as in football season or like basketball and football season, football season. Probably, yeah, at least this year, walk us to what is the walk because now you

have both perspectives, do have both perspectives. Ten minutes prior to like the team walking out, Um, there's the Red Steppers, which is our dance team, and then there's our team, and then the band is behind us and the band the Marching hundred, Marching hundred, yes band they like, will play um different you know band chance and stuff like that, and we'll cheer along with them. We'll do some cheers here and there and just be super obnoxious until it's

time for us to leave. So the cream co ed team will lead the walk, um, and they'll join in the pathway at the very end and just you know, cheer on the football team as they're walking into Memorial Stadium. And then a Crimson Ladies will stand on the side of the stairs and just like cheer along to Indiana or Indiana, which is our school song as the team boks by. So you guys don't move when they walk.

We do that straight to the tail game. I didn't even know that because I can't see like that far down The path we're talking about is like about a hundred yards. Um, so maybe not like me, I have no concept of it's pretty far, and so when there's all these people, it's like you can't really see what's going on. I always try and like find like the end of the football line because I'm like, I can only say, like, let's go Indiana. So many times it was pretty cool because we get too high five other

players and it's like, I'm not Gonnas. The last game, Tom Allen gave Jaden a high five let's go, and things like the first thing that happened Tom Allen. I love Tom Alan every time he comes over and gives all the cheerleader sci fis before the game. It's pretty cool. Just a very down Toroth guy. Um okay, So the walk, that's what happens there. I really enjoy it. I love hearing the band because that's my roots, and I always

get to see them march on. I get to see them march afterwards and get to uh see all my friends who are still in the band, which is really fun. Um, let's talk about when we have some of the media there, because really what I you like to utilize us as an extension of the marketing department because we're all about you and we're always over the top, so it's like perfect, Um,

we'll have big ten game day college game day. We had that one once last year I think, um, and then recently we had Fox Sports come, which was really cool. I didn't get to go to that didn't get really what do you do with the alumni them? That was actually super cool. It was really sweet to there, Like it was just it was a cheer alumni was just alumni alumni in general. But they like loved that we

were there. They loved talking to us. And I got to talk to like a lot of really cool people and actually quite a few of them there had like girls who had cheered um at I you before. Yeah, it was it was really cool, super sweet people umly appreciated us. It was very low key, just like us walking around as there. Um, they had like breakfast foods and it smells so good. Oh my gosh, it smells so freaking good over there. But um, it was really fun.

Well okay, so Fox Sports was pretty cool because I mean you would not believe the cameras that were over there. I mean probably. I was talking to Ryan about it and he was like, was that so cool? And I was like, Brian, I wasn't there. I wasn't even there. Okay, come on, Brian ran But so they had like, um, the stage that was like, you know, a little football field was the stage, and then they had like the Fox Sports robot guy out there. It was like doing

his thing. So that was kind of cool. Um, there was an unfortunate amount of Michigan fans that had like snuck into that area, so like it was almost split. I was like, are you kidding me? Um? But we we got to do all that, and then we were on the TV and you could see like what was live, so that was kind of keeping you involved. Um. I was like right behind Hayden, so it didn't really get a lot of FaceTime there. I was lately behind Hayden

and JP. I was like, great, so I'm not gonna be seen at all on the TV, just my forehead just peeking over JP's shoulder. So it's fine. Those kind of things before the game is just something that it really just keeps us involved all three hours before kickoff. I mean you think about we're pretty much going NonStop from if it's a new kickoff, we got to essentially be there at at the latest, right and then we started nine and we're on our feet, moving running around

meeting people. We're in the like the tailgate lots and things like that, like saying hi to people. Some you got. You get the little nuggets that come up and want to take a picture, and that's always so fun. Um. The little boys like parents are like, dona picture and they're like no, they're just so embarrassing. Mom. Yeah, um posted up exactly. And uh, Sam and Jet are always playing pick up football with the little guys are always

doing something active. It's scary a break, just relax, you know. Those boys eat that up. Oh my gosh. That's so that's like their best like that's their best life. Right. Yeah. They're like, yeah, the football game was fun, but I get to play with the so um really one here that's super fun. Um. So when we talk about the pregame stuff for basketball, we do this thing where we it's kind of like basically what you did for the Oleminal Association. Uh on that football game, we go into

what's called Cook Hall. Um. It's where a lot of the alumni and donors will go before the game and we have a little pep talk by some of the assistant coaches, and then we're all in there intermingling with people, UM saying Hey, this year, I'm gonna be handing out my business cards as I'm walking to be like, hey, maybe you want to hire me. I'm actually looking for a job right now. I'm actually open to the job

search right now if you were interested in hiring a cheerleader. Um. But no, that's super fun and it's just like really cool to like not have to be on but like still be cheerleading mode with just a couple of people, you know, face to face instead of just like looking up into the sea of red. That's kind of what

makes it worth it. Definitely makes it more tiring, but I think it makes it worth it because that's where you get all the like really cool one on one moments with some people, and that's the things you kind of remember more so than just you know, everything else that we will talk about when we come back. You see that glided over to that. Um. When we come back,

we're gonna talk about football game day. Okay, we're gonna talk about when we get into the stadium, UM, talk about the run on with the band, Shout out the band, um, and just all the stuff that we're doing. UM from the first quarter of the fourth quarter. So you are listening to Beyond the Megaphone. I'm Nathan and this is the College Athletes Network. Welcome back to Beyond the Megaphone on the College Athletes Network. This is Cassidy and this

is Nathan. Subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss another show already. So we're in the stadium, everybody's ready to roll, and you hear the drum cadenced. I cannot

tell you how hype every time. I could listen to it a million times, and every time when I hear that one, two or three or four, bam, and then everybody goes, whoa, you know what I'm saying, Oh my gosh, it's And I have the best job in the whole stadium this year because I get to run on the all girl Crimson six time national champions soon to be seven on the way UM every Saturday. So that's like

the coolest thing in the world. UM. It's also nice because it's like, oh my gosh, there's cast they remember when we were on the same team. Um, but also because I'm Crimson's biggest fan, true or false, Okay, just making sure. So that's super fun. But me and JP, me and j Pizzle get to run the big flags on. That's been like the dreams since I got to college,

since I was in the band. Literally, that was like one of the selling points when I was trying to figure out if I wanted to do band or Yeah, the big flag I was like, I want to do that. It looks so dope. I want to hold a flag dot weighs way too much and wave it all over the place in Memorial Studium pretty much. That was sophomore year Nathan stot process. Um, so we do that, we get to we get to run everybody on. We're down in the front um. We try and get that side involved.

We call that the alumni side. That's where a lot of the parents and alumni and just g a people are so like they might not be as invested in the sports as maybe the other side, which is all students, and they're just hyped up ready to roll. So but they still do a good job. Every time, you know, we're down there. They're pretty interactive, I think. I mean, I don't know, I don't know. It's different for me this year because I'm on the side closest to the

await side. Yeah. So, and especially like the past few day I can't go in an episode where I like, don't forget out of where I don't forget how to speak. Anyways, the past few games there have been a lot of away people, so that section like I'm literally cheering to the away people and I'm like, here we go. They're like boo, And I'm like how many times I hear go blue? Too many during the machinan game? I mean.

That's the thing is, like all we were in the Big Ten Conference, so all these amazing teams they have this these traveling fan bases that travel so well, and so we get to ours and it's like half and half, which is unfortunate, but it's fine. Um we do run on UM. We get to run the team on. The band comes out, they do all their formations, they kill it. Of course. UM we're kind of like the ornaments of

that whole production. UM vocabulary. Yeah, and then and then we have the team run on so there's two run ons during run on how many times? As I said, run on so far, lots of running, lots of cardio asthma everywhere. Yeah, it's rough. So then with like six minutes ago or maybe like you know, three or four, you hear that hear that intro, You hear the fire machines start going off, and you know it's it's game time. UM. And so then we get to run the team out

of where they're coming out of. UM. That was kind of scary because it's like you got a bunch of like three pound athletes behind you and you're like, oh, I really need to pick it up on this one. UM. But it's super fun. That's I think that is my favorite part of game days. I liked doing the run on last year because I didn't have a flag. I have a flag this year, and I'm like usually the O or the E, and so I'm like, I'm in the back. I'm in the back, and I'm just like

so scared that I'm gonna get you. Hear the steps yeah, literally literally, like I can smell the smoke from the fire that's like happening. And last year I was like at the front and I would just like run. But the thing I sucked about that is I'd have to run super fast and then run super fast all the way back. It's like the full we do the full field. Yeah, there's a full two D but like literally put me

on the team like offensive line right here. Yeah, what would you say is the hardest thing about staying engaged and staying involved why we're out there on the field. In terms of football, definitely the weather. Weather. It has a huge impact on like how my game performance is because it's there have been games where I'm freezing my

butt off. I don't think I'm going to survive games where I literally had to sit out the last quarter because it was so hot, and games where I literally came home and like took a like took a shower outside because it was raining so hard. Yes, Idaho, Like there are very few games that are like good weather. Like the last game we had was good weather, but it was still a little cold at the prest to have been Yes, we've gotten lucky. Yeah this has been lucky.

But that made up for Idaho. Yeah, oh my gosh, talk about so Idaho. It was like was it raining when we got on the field. It was perfect weather. That's what I thought. I thought it was nice, and then something bad just had to happen, and it starts pouring down rain, like pouring wearing my long lashes, and I don't know how they stayed on that game, Like I literally don't know how they stayed on the game.

And my eyes were burning because my last blue was like running into my eyes and I couldn't see anything, and I just remember like doing um Alma mater, I think. And then we went into zombie and I had to get into a prep hold a sign and yes, I'm pretty sure I did a stunt. Did I don't remember cut that out because I don't remember if that's true, but I'm pretty sure I got into a stet. Yeah, well we did shoulder sets, so you probably did. It was just a prep. Yeah, I don't know. I have

to look back at that. But that that run on pre game was so fun. I was so scared I was going to fall. I was like changing the ilex, spreading my toes, like trying to run on like my flat footage so I didn't slip. So self aware of how my feet are moving, socks are like soaking way I can feel it like slashing around in my shoes, like absolutely disturbing my My shoes smoked so bad after that game. Here's the thing about like the extreme weather problems,

you know what I mean with with football. Most of the time, when it's really hot, people will stay. Uh that's you know, most people can handle that. Um. When it rains, people usually leave. We don't get a lot of people to stay. Or when it's like super cold. Um, here's something that we can't do is leave. You know, we are locked in start to finish and so um. And not only just they are on the sidelines. We have to be engaged. We have to be calling cheers,

we have to be stunting when it's safe to do so. Um. You know, we have to be for them tumbling Uh me not so much getting there almost there, um, trying to get there. I'll get it. Um. But you know, like it doesn't matter really what the weather is. Like, we have to do our job either way. That's how Julie always presented to us. It's like it's not exactly just showing up, It's a job, you know what I mean.

So I think that that's been something that kind of gets misconstrued from fans to us just like, you know, because I'll be done and I'll be exhausted and my parents be in town. They're like, all right, how was that. I'm like, I just I just need to sleep, dude. I feel so bad when like my parents come and want to like spend time with me after a game, because I will like pass out in like a five minute car. Right. Well, it's also just like I've been on so long. Yeah, I just knew, like, yeah, I'm

just stare at a wall for a couple. Yeah, let's talk about a third quarter. So what we do here at I you tradition that our cheering program does is we actually go into the stands during the third quarter to rile up the crowd, uh large or small. We are there to try and get the crowd involved and keep the crowd involved after halftime. Um. And so that is actually one of the hardest things to do because

you can't stunt because we're on the steps. Um. You have to call cheers that are crowd effective because you're right next to them and if you're just shouting nonsense, they're not gonna listen. Um. What's funny about the guys is we have to like kind of move our megs to a spot where we're not like deafening the person right next to us. So I'm kind of usually just pointing it straight up in the air. So I don't know how much that's even heard. You guys are pretty loud,

can you guys hear us on the other side? So what the what our two teams do is Cream will go on one side, Crimsin will go on the other side. Um, I've actually heard you guys a couple of times where you can hear us pretty well, at least the guys. I can hear the guys like insanely well, like literally two rows down for me. Okay, I ton't know is that effective? Okay? So and we do that and and

that's really I think it's fun. I mean I always try and find, like, uh, you know, family or you know, a group of people to talk to and just be like, hey, how's it going. Sometimes I really like talking to the away fans, just being like, so, why did you drive six hours to watch this game? What are you doing in my home? Yeah? Most of them, vast majority are

really nice. You get a couple of people who you know are just actually had quite a few mean people recently, but the way people are fans fans, well, it might because we're losing. I had one guy I was doing, um, I think let's go Hoosiers, and this guy behind me was like, put the palm down, and I was like, I don't even want to do this anymore. I catch you in now they can. I can get a little

hostile in the in the stands. I've it's tough going into the students like to do that because it's very dependent on how we're playing, on what their mood's gonna look like. Um. So you know, I've been in there one time. We're down by a good amount and it's just like your cheer into a brick wall, and they just don't want you there. I don't want you there. They don't really want to be yelled at. They don't, so that kind of gets a little awkward. But again,

for the most part, people have been nice. People always want to yell in the megaphones, and that's always a liability because you never really know what they're gonna say or they're gonna take it and run. Um. I like hold it out to people and say you can't say any bad words and you can't hold onto it and they'll like try and grab it, and I'm just like gripping as hard as I can. I was like, please don't run away with this, um so. But I mean I think most part our students are super super nice

to the cheerleaders the students. The students get it, you know, because it we're students as well, So I think that's nice. Um But yeah, football's football is a lot, I think all in all, the just say eight hour days, that's like minimum. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a like a literal nine. So, uh, what's been really tough for me with grad school has been just taking a whole day out of my week to not be able to work on really anything because afterwards I'm spent. You know, there's not I don't have

a lot of energy to do anything else. So can you imagine doing homework after your football game? I have before I had to. Um But yeah, I think football is just fun. It's just a whole different animal, and it's worth it because just I mean, we're talking about Big ten football, you know, it's it's some of the best atmospheres that you can imagine. Um So. And then when we come back, let's shift gears a little bit.

Let's go inside to our climate controlled Simon's Got Assembly Hall. Yes, we'll take you through some of the ins and outs of everything that we have to do for basketball. Yeah. So, um, you are listening to Beyond the Megaphone. I'm Nathan and I'm Cassidy. This is the College Athletes Network. Yeah, welcome back to Beyond the Megaphone on the College Athletes Network. This is Nathan and I'm Cassidy. Subscribe to our podcast so you never miss another episode. Hate your voice, pick

the wrong activity to do. Apparently I can't speak either, so it's fine, it's fine, you're doing great. Um. So, during our break, we were looking at some of the photos from last season and we stumbled across the parade and I don't think we ever even mentioned the parade so far. The parade happened about two months after the crazy March Madness moment, and we just want to take an aside real quick and like say, that was like

the craziest experience ever. Um, I think, like genuinely top five cheer moments ever, and that's above like several of the March Maddess moments, you know, just because it was so fun and like we got there and well, originally we like, we had no idea we're going to be in a car. We were in a car by the way. Um. But we got there and went to the car and they're like, okay, so you guys will be here and

then your teammates will be behind you. We were like who boa wa what because we had twenty people with us, of our of our team. And it was cool because it was like the first year I you cheer had its own float and everything like that. And then we get to the car and it says casting and Nathan Heroes of March Madness. I was like, hold on, woo woaho, what's what's going on here? Um? So, like it was weird, but it was fun and like I think everyone could tell that it was like making us a little bit

yeah weird. So there wasn't a need for us to be like hey, like, you know, this wouldn't be our choice, because that's the thing that we wanted to really make clear when that all that happened was we're still on a team. This is not you know, me, it's not her, you know, It's just something that happened and it's great for our program. So in like examples like this, like we got to do that because of that experience. So

but just so fun Like the pictures are amazing. I don't know why I haven't posted any yet, but um yeah, just the ones in a lifetime experience. Um, it felt like a little celebrity for a couple of minutes. So anyway back to game day, um, because we do yeah, he's yeah, we're just normally not like in the ind f parade. But anyway to basketball. So once you hear welcome to the jungle this game time, Yeah, we're ready

to roll. We run the team out, we get into that circle, we get in the way of the opposing team, no matter who we're playing, and I love it. It's so funny. Um yeah, it's probably scary for y'all, but it's really funny. When they're looking straight ahead, they don't even see you guys. No. Um, So, cheering basketball is a little different than cheering football or really anything else.

I love basketball. That's my favorite thing to cheer. Okay, so tell me about like some of the differences that are necessary when you're cheering basketball versus anything else, specifically Indiana basketball. Um. I think one thing that makes our programs so unique just like and I know it makes us unique because when we have done tournaments, I've seen like the other cheer teams and how they handle basketball. Um, we are cheering of the time, like there is no

time to breathe. It's it's constant yelling and screaming and getting excited and getting the crowd excited because you're like three ft away from the people, like they are watching your every move that they're hearing every word you say is super important. Sorry, Simbly. Hall is not a big stadium, no, not at all. Everybody's on top of each other. Everybody's trying to see the court and we're all in the mix um and just right up on top of people,

like face to face most of the game. And something that's really cool about are you is they give the

cheer team almost every time out the entire floor. We grew out there, and we take this space that is free real estate every time out, and like that's something that is not common, you know, like they might get a corner, you know, but literally every teav TV time out, we got routines, we got pyramids, we've got things that we're gonna do something, prepare for everything, and all of those have to be different than the ones we do for football because you can't be over what too high,

you can't do baskets, you can't do like a lot of release stunts. You can't do any like too to one pyramids one one pyramids. It can't be two and a half high. It's gotta be just a Yeah. There's a lot of different like rules and stuff with the legality of basketball cheer, and it's similar. The stunting and time outs I say, I will say are very similar to like what a high school team would experience. The differences.

It's just constant, NonStop, always doing something and like you have to be very quick on your feet to like remember what's going on, because these time outs aren't like terribly long, but they also like we we jam packed them with stuff. Is there's two minutes of just constant moving,

go go go. Um. Yeah. I think that's where I always think that this is where I You Cheer thrives because all the other teams they do all this extra stuff whatever there's I don't think there's many programs who have better game day presence and experience than I You Cheer. I mean, we are constantly going yelling, screaming, getting people involved.

Me and Mel loved finding like little nuggets who are courtside or like first couple of rows, and during our time out, like when we had the free time, we can run over and say hey, how are you, and you know, take a little picture and like that was that was like the best. I love doing that UM, but just being the presence, always being on UM and keeping everybody engaged, because those time outs can't get long, like you said, so it's our job to be like,

all right, we're still engaged. Let's go, We're gonna win this game. And then you have the greatest time out and all of the n C double A the one and only William Tell, Yes, William Tell, I didn't. I don't do a flag in William Tel. I didn't last year and I'm not doing it this year. I've made that happen because I can't physically do it like I will happen as an attack thoughts too much for me. It can get congested in there too, so no, no, no no, no, no,

no flag for me. So I'm on the side after we do the stunt and like do a little like one two things I moved to like the sides and like clap through the fight, clap through the school song, um, and then do school song the Perdue game when we did William Tell and I was like center of the court for that. I literally felt like everyone was clapping for me, like I am the only reason they're watching Williams Tell right now, You're on the only reason they're

at the game. I'm literally the only reason that that moment, Like, I literally was like I'm I'm saying literally so much. Literally literally, No. I was looking around because I clapped through for the first like two times and I was like, Wow, They're all looking at me and only me. This is my stage, Like hello, that's a pretty common cheerleader. That was a very like, very cheer little moment. No. So I have one of the big flags for William Tell that can get along, that can get a little a

little much. We're because we go through the song wim tell it. It goes through that whole song and then you play school song twice. Can you talk about the transition though, like that transition from William tad to the school song smooth, flawless, smooth, shoutout band again and again kill it William. So we go there and it transitions to the school song and um me and last year with Ethan that she was gonna be a JP Um. We're just running the whole time and waving the big

old flag. I always try and find how close I can wave that flag to the away team when they're in the time out without hitting them, because that would be bad. Um. But just like making making it known that, oh, hey, this is giant I you flag is all up in your girl, just just for fun of it, you know, just to get in their heads just a time. College is happening right now, right and they're missing it. So that's a little disrespectful, but whatever. Um, yeah, all at all.

And the biggest thing about the whole point of this episode is just to talk about there's a lot that goes into producing game day and putting this product out that is I You cheer. Um. You know, I'm a bit biased being an I cheer leader, but I would say we have some of the richest tradition out of all teams. That's what I love about it. I love the like traditional, this is what we've been doing for

such a long time. Like the fact that our coach, Julie, who has been here for three decades has been doing some of the same things in excellence, you know, and it has been done in excellence for the past three decades, and now it's up to us to remain at such a high caliber. That's pretty cool, um. And I think that that's like something that you know, maybe people who

aren't involved with YER don't really understand. It's just because you know, you wear that uniform, you wear that non breathable fabric in ninety degrees or in a packed assembly hall, um for the tradition, you know, and just to say that you're a part of something bigger than yourself. Um, because it's it's stretches not only to the active members of the cheer team, it's all the ones who've been here before us and all the ones will be here after us. Um. So I think it's pretty cool. Long

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