Day One at NCA Dallas
This blog post is Part Two of my NCA Series. For Part One click here. Part One Day One-Warm ups My team and I are in the back waiting to hear what just happened. Two of our best people just collied heads in warm-ups and were bleeding. So here we were waiting in this giant room for our coaches to tell us the game plan. "They're gonna do it for you guys, but we are going to be the last team to compete all day," our coaches say. Relief. The place looked lifeless. Everyone had already gone back to their hotels. It was just us and one other team that had watched what just went down in warm-ups. Photo Baker, J. (2019). Was the night before NCA . photograph, Dallas, Texas. Above is a photo of what part of the warm-up room looks like. On stage A stunt falls. One stunt that never would fall, had hit the floor. Tears. The girls who dropped the stunt felt horrible. Our coaches didn't make matters better by yelling at them....
