As I was finishing up things outside (repainting the patio furniture, Locking landscape bricks, etc.) Kris calls me in the house. She was busy making barbequed pulled pork for Sunday, and was literally elbows deep in about 20 pounds of meat when the phone rang. It was the varsity cheer coach who was calling to tell us that one of the girls that had made the varsity squad, but was going to be an alternate, decided that she didn't want to be an alternate. She had the option of going back down to JV, but decided she would rather just quit (she was a junior). So the coach went to the list and Alison was the first girl she and her assistant considered as her replacement. So after explaining this, she asked if we thought Alison would be interested in bumping up to the varsity.
Kris said she wasn't sure, that it would be Ali's decision, so she called Alison down to talk to the coach. It didn't take long though, Ali jumped at the chance. So now we have a varsity cheerleader (even if it is as an alternate right now). She will get to cheer for varsity games (football, basketball, etc.) but for competitions she'll be an alternate/substitute in case someone gets hurt, suspended, can't make a competition... whatever the reason they can't be there.
I feel bad because all of her friends (or most of them anyway) are all on the JV team. So Ali will have to leave them behind. I hope they don't end up resenting her because she got moved up and they didn't. And I hope that it also doesn't give Ali a big head. There were some cheerleaders when Sarah was on JV that had made the varsity that pretty much became little witches once they made varsity. We are going to do our best to make sure that doesn't happen. Plus, Varsity is a lot of work. She'll have practice several times a week, plus helping to coach the Jr Indian cheerleaders, and she has a couple of honors classes this year. So she is going to be working her butt off, and if any grades start slipping, she'll be done with cheer.
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