A forty-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all
wrong. . . .
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Laura Vikmanis has got spirit . . . and pom-poms, too! But before she stepped onto the field as the oldest cheerleader in the National Football League, she was sidelined by a bad marriage and
the many responsibilities of stay-at-home motherhood. She finally got the courage to leave her husband and to ask herself something she had never asked before: What do I want to do? Remembering
her teenage love of dance, she signed up for a pole-dancing fitness class, where she met a former cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals. When the woman suggested that Laura audition to be a
��en-Gal,��Laura laughed her off but soon realized that the audition process could be a way of healing herself��nd regaining her confidence. Her boots were made for walking��ut also for
stomping on a football field.
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She tried out for the team next to girls young enough to be her daughters. Girls with tighter abs, fuller hair, no kids, and no crow's-feet. After much adversity and multiple auditions, she
finally made the team, becoming the oldest cheerleader in the League.
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It's Not About the Pom-Poms follows Laura's inspiring, funny, and eye-opening journey from demoralized divorc矇e to high-kicking Cincinnati Ben-Gal. Readers will cheer her on as she
rediscovers her passion for dancing, takes hip-hop classes with twelve-year-olds, loses twenty-five pounds, discovers her abs, finds love again, and becomes a new kind of role model to her
daughters. Laura also provides an inside look into the fascinating world of NFL cheerleaders��he grueling workouts, bad pay, twice-weekly weigh-ins, but, most important, the lifelong bond
between the women, who do it all for the glory.
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Leading with her heart, Laura Vikmanis faces adversity with her head held high as she learns in mid-life to take a flying leap. Powerful and uplifting, It's Not About the Pom-Poms shows
that, no matter your age, it's never too late to go, fight, and win!
From the Hardcover edition.
