Leah of the Pack

Being part of the cheerleading team has a few perks and one big one is the opportunity to travel to the NCAA tournament to cheer on our team! This year, we went to College Park, Maryland to play Princeton in the first round. Although the outcome of the game was not in our favor it was a great experience and I'm so proud of our women's basketball team! Here's an overview of our trip as well as some snapshots!


Day One - Thursday: After the cheer team and pep band put our stuff on the bus to go to the airport, we headed over to the Kress Events Center for a send off pep rally for the team. Together with the pep band we created a tunnel for the team to walk through and played the fight song to get every's excitement rising and get their Green Bay Phoenix spirit up! Community members and students joined in the fun and some even brought signs. Once everyone was on the buses we had a police escort to the airport! From there it was wheels up as we flew into Washington D.C. After we had landed safely we had about an hour drive to our hotel in Maryland. Our team went out to dinner and once we returned to the hotel my friends and I had an amazing surprise waiting for us! Our friend Nellie used to work for the Women's basketball team but graduated last year and now attends UConn. She wasn't supposed to be able to make it to Maryland because she works for the UConn women's basketball team and they had a game the same day as ours. We made "Stick Nellie" so she could still come on our adventures with us. Somehow all the fates aligned and Nellie was able to make it to Maryland for the weekend and surprised us! It was the surprise of the century and I may have teared up a bit. Spending time with such a great friend was the perfect ending to the day!

It's one of the best times of the year: March Madness. I've filled out my bracket and although I am a die-hard Marquette fan, I've chosen Wisconsin to win it all. This year I get to take part in the action as our women's basketball team won our conference tournament and will be making their 15th NCAA appearance! I am really excited because the last time they made it to NCAA, our team got to travel to Louisiana, but I missed out on the fun as I was still recovering from knee surgery and was not cleared to cheer. This year I get to see what the hype is all about. Tomorrow afternoon we are headed to College Park, Maryland to take on the Tigers of Princeton on Saturday morning! Although Princeton (the 8 seed to our 9)  has had an undefeated season so far I think we can take them down! I'm super excited because on our off day we get to visit Washington D.C. and I have never been there before. Fingers crossed we can avoid rain. Can't wait for this great experience and to cheer on the Phoenix to victory!

A common thing most college student hear is that being away at college makes you appreciate home and being home makes you appreciate being away at college. Well, being away at a different college makes you appreciate your college even more. After spending some time on a different college campus I realized even more some of the reasons why I love UW-Green Bay. 

A few hours ago I was just offered the position of Social Media Assistant for my campus' office of residence life and housing. I am so ecstatic! Duties of this job include managing social media accounts, blogging, assisting in taking photos and videos and more responsibilities that I am confident I will excel at. I had a good feeling about the interview but I was told I was the unanimous choice and the main standout candidate which makes me beyond happy. I probably smiled for an hour straight after I got the call. The best part about this internship besides getting to do the things I love to do, is that I can use it to count towards my credits for graduation which makes this position such a great opportunity! I have been so lucky job wise these past few weeks. I cannot wait to start my new position!

April shower bring May flowers but April also brings along the housing lottery, which means you have to figure out your housing situation for the upcoming school year. Everyone who is re-contracts to live on campus gets sent a number, the lower the number the earlier you have to pick your housing. According to your number you also receive a set time to go and actually choose and register your housing choices. Seems like no big deal, right? Not this year. Normally you have your usually room of four that you tend to keep as roommates for your whole college career but this year we have a group of five trying to get into one of the few five bedroom apartments on campus. Freshman year we had heard about these apartments, thinking they were an urban legend of the UWGB campus, no one really talks about them and they aren't advertised. This year we have done our research to find there are only four available. All we can do before losing our mind while anxiously waiting for next Thursday to arrive is to hope that those with lower numbers than us (hello 547!) have no idea that these apartments exist.  May the odds be ever in our favor. 

Hi! I'm Leah and I'm going to be using this as a way to write about my life, mainly cheerleading experiences for the rest of my college career. I have a different blog dedicated to a different style of writing, but I wanted a place to write about my college experiences and show a more relaxed style of my writing, so Leah of The Pack was born. To start out here is a little about myself.

1. College: I am a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin- Green Bay, where I am majoring in Communication with an emphasis in Journalism and Public Relations. I love writing. Journalism has been something that has always interested me and I look forward to learning more about writing as well as broadcast journalism during my time as a student.

2. Cheerleading: I have been a cheerleader for nine wonderful years and I have learned so much more than I had ever imagined. I started on our community's rec team in sixth grade and went through our middle school and high school teams. I am currently a member of the UWGB Phoenix cheerleading team, which has been amazing because in addition to cheering for our university's basketball teams we also get to cheer for the Green Bay Packers! Also this year I am a UCA rookie staff member. I cannot wait to start my summer with UCA!

3. The Future: There are so many different things I see myself doing in the future. I think it would be so cool if I could share my passion for cheerleading through my writing by working for a cheerleading magazine such as American Cheerleader or Inside Cheerleading. Otherwise I would like to write for another publication. I also am interested in broadcast journalism. Being a TV news anchor or a talk show host would be a awesome job. Or running social media for a big organization, or working in PR for a large company, there are just so many careers I am interested in, I can't wait to see where life takes me!

Even if this blog never gets read, I am excited to write about my life because it's a great way to keep track of all the adventures that life takes me on. Thanks so much for reading.


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