Well, saying that all the hard work paid off at state was a huge understatement. March 7-9 was the USA Spiritline nationals in Anaheim California. The highest that mountain view pom has ever placed at nationals in the past was third place, and our team from the previous year didn't even qualify to finals. My team went in just wanting to do the best that we could. We competed friday morning against 13 other teams. Later that after noon they narrowed it down to a top 6 to compete again on sunday. We made the top 6 and were so incredibly excited. Along with announcing the top 6 they also say what the highest score was in that division. They don't say who got it but it just sort of helps you get an idea of where you're ranked going into finals. Our score was .6 points lower than the top score. We all realized that if our routine went that much better on sunday we had a chance at cing really high. We had a day at disneyland on saturday then bright an early sunday morning we competed. Our routine was awesome and we "left it on the floor" as our coach would say. We knew we had done our best and if another teams best was better than ours then we were fully prepared to be happy with what we got and clap for them. After they announced 6th place we all were like yes top 5 thats amazing! Then top 3.... then we realized it was down to two teams. I dont think any of us breathed after that but then they announced the 2nd place team and it wasn't us. We all went crazy. It was an amazing feeling. We worked so hard all year, and it all paid off in the end. Mountain Views 5 man stunt group also took home the first place trophy out of 62 other teams and the Cheer team took home 3rd. It was such a fun and memorable trip!
