States

This Sunday is states, the biggest competition of the fall season for cheerleading. We won this past winter, and it was such a good feeling. No East Bridgewater team has ever won states in the fall. Burlington has gotten first for the past nine years. We all want to be the first EBHS team to ever win states in the fall. It would be such a great accomplishment. There are two competitions before states, which are leagues and regionals. We did awesome at leagues, and got first place. At regionals, we thought we did really good. We thought we won, then we went to awards. They said that there were four teams in our division, division three, that'd be moving on to states. We were all so excited, because we thought we definately would move on and win. They announced fourth place, and it wasn't us. Next, was third place, and it wasn't us. It wasn't the team we expected it to be, either... We knew that there were three amazing teams left, us, Medway, and Foxborough. They announced second, and it was Medway, so we were really nervous. We knew Foxborough did extremely good. They announced first, and it was Foxborough. We all burst into tears. It didn't make sense... How do we go from winning states in the winter, then not even making it to states in the fall? We were all confused and so upset. Our coach went up to the judges and asked them what happened. Meanwhile, we're all crying and picking up our stuff to leave. He ran over to us and said that we won! They then announced that there was a computer glitch, and there were five teams moving on and we actually got first. We had to go up to Foxborough and take their trophy. We're all practicing super hard and we're all so anxious. We think we can do it, and so do many other people.