“I have always told myself no matter what I’m feeling inside, I can’t let the team know ... We can do all this work preparing mentally, but if they see me looking terrified or scared or losing it, all that work that we’ve done could go down the drain”
Monica Aldama. Illustration: Lauren Tamaki Monica Aldama is one of the most successful athletic coaches in the country, having brought in 14 Junior College Division National Championships and five Grand National Titles for the cheerleading team at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas. While she may not have the name recognition of coaches in other sports, Netflix’s hugely popular new docuseries Cheer is poised to change that.
I know that it looks a little crazy. But they were here for four months filming, and all that had to be edited down to six hours. What it didn’t show is that we actually do take a lot of caution when we’re learning new skills. We do progressions, we have a lot of spotters, and we don’t ever put an entire pyramid together until we know that each section individually has been consistent enough.
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