Prep With Me for the Acro & Tumbling National Championships!!!

 Emily Bott 

4/13/25

Hey blog, welcome back, the next two weeks are gonna be tough leading up to nationals. We’re traveling to Sioux Falls South Dakota for the NCATA college acrobatics and tumbling national championships. It’s both exciting and stressful going in as the number one seed. It’s exciting because our hard work shows in our winning record, but it’s also stressful because it’s very hard to stay on top when all the other teams are working just as hard as you to knock you down. so with the national championships, the entire team gets to travel not just the starting lineup which makes traveling a lot of fun. Practices from here until nationals are going to be extremely tough and if you don’t take care of your mind and body, you can’t be successful so this time of year I try to work ahead for my classes so that after practices and weight training I can concentrate on staying organized and getting a good night's sleep to start the day over and do it all again. Practices are also tough when the coach makes changes and sometimes it’s disappointing when you’ve been competing all season in a certain event and the coach changes things to try to score better  to give us a better chance of winning, but this is when you have to understand that this is a team and we all need to do our job to be successful and you can’t just worry about yourself. As far as my injury goes my foot is  starting to feel better. I have to be very careful because if I push my limits, the pain will be back to the way it was and it’s very hard to perform at my best feeling the pain that I had so for now I’m still walking around in the boot going for treatments And I have modified weight training. It seems to be helping. One fun fact about traveling with the team: we're only allowed to use this tiny little suitcase that we get that the whole team matches each other and it’s very hard to pack everything that you need for 5 to 6 days of travel in one tiny little suitcase. It’s times like these that you have to be organized and follow the packing list and make sure you only pack the necessities. So until next week's blog, wish me luck on these grueling practices. 


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