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A 40-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, an individual mom in Ohio, informed friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she turned out them all wrong.... Laura Vikmanis offers spirit...and pom-poms, too! But before she stepped onto the field as the oldest cheerleader in the National Football Little league, she was sidelined with a bad matrimony and the many responsibilities of stay-at-home motherhood. She finally received the courage to leave her partner and also to ask herself something she got never asked before: What do I wish to do? Remembering her teenage love of dance, she signed up for a pole-dancing fitness course, where she achieved a past cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals. When the woman recommended that Laura audition to be a "Ben-Gal", Laura laughed her off but soon became aware that the audition process could be a way of curing herself - and regaining her confidence. Her boots were designed for walking - also for stomping over a football field. She used for the team next to girls young enough to be her daughters. Young girls with tighter washboard abs, fuller hair, no kids, no crow's-feet. After much adversity and multiple auditions, she finally made the team, becoming the oldest cheerleader in the Little league. It's Not About the Pom-Poms uses Laura's inspiring, funny, and eye-opening quest from demoralized divorcée to high-kicking Cincinnati Ben-Gal. Readers will cheer her on as she rediscovers her love for dancing, can take hip-hop classes with twelve-year-olds, loses twenty-five pounds, discovers her washboard abs, discovers love again, and becomes a fresh kind of role model to her daughters. Laura also provides an inside check out the amazing world of NFL cheerleaders - the grueling workout routines, bad pay, twice-weekly weigh-ins, but, most significant, the lifelong bond between the women, who do everything for the glory. Leading with her center, Laura Vikmanis encounters adversity with her mind placed high as she discovers in mid-life to have a flying step. Powerful and uplifting, It's Not About the Pom-Poms implies that, no matter your actual age, it's never too past due to go, fight, and win!
