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This is the official Abilene High cheerleading Instagram account for Abilene ISD. 🦅📣
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This week on the AHS Cheer page, I’ve been sharing old cheer pictures for Homecoming and asking alumni to send me anything they have from their time at Abilene High. I knew it would be fun, but I genuinely had no idea how special it would end up being for me personally.

All week, people have sent me pictures from decades of AHS Cheer—some from people I knew cheered, some from people I know personally and had NO idea cheered, some whose daughters I cheered with, and some whose daughters I get to coach now. I’ve gotten to hear stories, see old uniforms, and learn about traditions I didn’t even know existed.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that, it really hit me how incredibly lucky I am.

Six years ago, I was asked to be the JV cheer coach at my alma mater, and from the very beginning I have treated that opportunity like the absolute honor it is. Now I get to lead the program I once cheered for myself, and I still don’t take a single bit of it for granted.

My days are a little unconventional... I start my mornings at Abilene High with my big littles, spend the rest of the school day at Ward teaching Deaf Education to my littlest littles, and then so many evenings I’m right back with my big littles again.

Seriously—how many school districts would let someone teach elementary Deaf Education AND coach high school cheer at her alma mater?! Somehow, AISD has given me the opportunity to do two things I absolutely love, with two completely different groups of kids I absolutely adore.

I love my job. I love the people I work with and the people I work for. I love that I get to be a teacher AND a coach without having to choose between two parts of myself that mean so much to me.

This week especially, I’ve loved being reminded that I’m just one tiny piece of a much bigger story. Looking through decades of AHS Cheer pictures, then seeing my own from when I wore that uniform alongside pictures from tonight where I’m standing on the same sidelines as their coach, is a full-circle moment I don’t really have words for.

I’m thankful. I’m grateful. I’m blessed. And I mean every single one of those words with my whole heart. 

It’s a great day to be an Eagle🤍
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Year 2 with my BESTFRIENDS!! 😆📣🖤
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