UCA National High School Cheerleading Competition
Marketplace we all realized how big the UCA National competition was. There was UCA and cheerleading merchandise in almost every one of the stores. It made the team that much more excited to compete the next day.
We got back to the hotel and decided that we all wanted to go swimming. We wandered around trying to find the pool and after about 15 minutes of walking we found it. It was stunning. It made you feel like you were in paradise. There were exotic plants all around. There was also a bridge over the pool as well as a hidden waterslide and waterfall into the pool.
We met some other teams that were competing in the co-ed division while we were in the pool that night. One of the teams was in the small co-ed division just like us and the other was in large co-ed. The team that we competed again was St. Louis High School, actually from Hawaii. It was also their first time at UCA Nationals. The other team was the infamous Christian Brothers Academy. That night the members of the Christian Brothers told us what to expect from the competition and what would happen every day of competition. They also told us that for their first 4 years at the competition, they did not make it to finals. The Academy’s members also added that normally teams take about 2-3 years to make it to finals. That news kind of bummed us a bit, but it made us put the whole trip into prospective. We were there to have fun and compete. It would be wonderful if we made it to the finals, but even more spectacular if we placed them!
The next morning we woke up at 8am to have breakfast as a team and then head to the Disney Quest. Disney Quest was a very exciting place that had many interactive and hands-on games. There we played a bunch of games and went on a few rides. We also got to design our own roller coasters and ride them in a simulator. Then the team made the craziest, fastest, hardest roller coaster the simulator could handle and made our coaches ride it. When they came out their faces were a bit pale.
Later that day we went to Universal Studios. We had lunch at the Pizza Planet. We played a bunch of Toy Story games there. We went to the Honey I Shrunk the Kids part and played on giants ants and huge blades of grass. We got to be a part of a show that was put on there. The show involved green army men. We got to go on a stage and had to do all these exercises while being ordered around by army men. It was a lot of fun.
After we got done at Universal Studios we went back to the resort and got to take an hour nap before we had to go compete in preliminary competition. We went to the WWS arena and went [next page]