Emalee Stansbury '23 Recruiting Profile

I have been an athlete my whole life. Don’t worry I’m not gonna tell you my whole life story now. I did cheer for cheer athletics for 3 years and two of those years I was on world teams Pandora cats and Zeus cats. I fell in love with cheering and I loved having a family. In gymnastics it’s like that but with cheer it’s a bit different. I love the thrill of going out on the mat and doing something you’ve worked so incredibly hard on and spent a journey through mental blocks or injuries and adding your blood sweat and tears into. Just to spend 2 minutes and 30 seconds on a mat in front of a crowd. Well it’s not just two minutes and 30 seconds for the cheerleaders performing it. It’s a show where we finally get to express everything and show all of our hard work ,determination and perseverance. And when you hit that routine and the crowd goes wild I would say that is one of the best experiences of my life. Being with the people you don’t just call friends now . You call family the working yourself so hard to the point where you thought you couldn’t go anymore but you did. It really shows you who you really are and your character and how hard you work. And I love that.It’s good to feel your hard work pay off. I love being with the team and creating bonds that’ll last a lifetime. And working myself to where I’m the best I can be. And I’m very competitive I love pushing myself past my limit. And I have a lot of energy that I think the team would really like.