By Cooper Chadwick
The Circle cheer team is led by senior team captain Layne Nice, and she leads with a stellar attitude and a goal to better her teammates.
“I have always liked being a leader and helping out coaches on any team I have been a part of, so my leadership skills have added up over the years which helps to make me a good captain,” Nice said. I also love to communicate with all my teammates, I feel comfortable chatting with each one of them, and checking in on them, and I want them to feel comfortable speaking to me about anything going on that they need help with. Whether it is cheer related or not, I try to be a friend that each girl could reach out to.”
Nice’s main focus for this year was to better the trust with her team and to continue to build relationships, and one thing that did just that was practicing stunts.
“Stunts can be dangerous but they get each team member to trust each other, not only to catch the flyer but also to keep others from getting injured when the flyer is coming down. We rely on one another and you can’t teach someone to trust someone else, they must make that judgment on their own. So at the beginning of each new season, the newer people learn how to better trust one another, and it also teaches them how close we are all going to be physically,” Nice said.
