I was bored. I didn't like the time constraints, and the assignments seemed tedious and redundant.

AVS has a philosophy of people first, not grades or accomplishments. I now look at my kids that way -- kids first. It's not about their disability or their ability to accomplish anything. It's about who they are.

I was standoffish at first, but they opened me up because they wanted to get to know who I was. Without AVS, I would have dropped out of school.

With this team, they want to have their best time, but they want the state points for Cape Central. We want to race the fastest guys there and get as close to them as we can. We think our relays can race right there with them.

How do you know it's not going to happen again, ... and this time, it just might go, 'Wham!' A whole lot of innocent people are going to get hurt.

We all knew at tryouts, this time last year, we would be going to state competition and we have been working for this day all season. We have all been cheering together since freshman and some since Pop Warner. We have been waiting for this our whole cheer career and we are so excited.