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81: Netflix CHEER Star Summer Wilkinson on Dedication to Her Sport, Studies, and Faith

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Self-improvement, Education

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you're a fan of the huge hit Netflix series CHEER then you're in for a real treat today. Summer Wilkinson, a member of the Navarro College Cheer team in 2018-2019 was on the team during the pilot season of the emmy-nominated docuseries that swept the nation and kept everyone entertained during the first couple months of COVID-19. Summer shares with me what it was like to be on Navarro Cheer, how much hard work went into preparing for and staying on the team, and also her unique experiences as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a school where she was one of only a few members of her church. Summer's stories of dedication to her sport, her schooling and her faith are so inspiring and if you're looking for something uplifting today, I know you're going to love my episode with her. www.GreenChef.com/mintarrow80 to get $80 off your first month plus free shipping on your first box! Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're a fan of the huge hit Netflix series Cheer, then you're in for a real treat today.

0:05.6

Summer Wilkinson, a member of the Navarro College Cheer Team in 2018 to 2019,

0:11.8

was on the team during the pilot season of the Emmy nominated

0:15.3

docu series that swept the nation and kept everyone entertained during the first

0:19.5

couple months of COVID-19, including myself.

0:23.0

Summer shares with me what it was like to be on a borrowed chair, how much hard work

0:27.0

went into preparing for and staying on the team, and also her unique experiences as a

0:32.0

member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

0:35.1

at a school where she was only one of a few members of her church.

0:39.3

Summer's stories of dedication to her sport, her schooling, and her faith are so inspiring.

0:44.8

And if you're looking for something uplifting today,

0:46.8

I know you're going to love my episode with her.

0:49.4

So today, fans of the Netflix series cheer are going to love this interview because I am

0:58.8

interviewing Summer Wilkinson who was a Navarro cheerleader say hi summer.

1:05.0

Hi! And I'm just so grateful that she is taking the time to talk to me today.

1:11.0

So Summer let's start off with where you grew up and just kind of

1:15.2

your background and like your family and all of those things for people who don't

1:19.3

know you. Okay so I was born in Gilbert, Arizona, so my family's all down from there and I still claim that like I was only there for like since I was like two years old but I love to say Arizona because I don't know I just love hot weather and just being in Arizona has good memories when we visit.

1:45.9

But my family's all from there.

1:49.0

Then we moved to Draper, Utah.

2:01.0

We grew up in Utah my whole life and then the past six years I've been in Texas. Awesome. Yeah. Very cool. And so you moved to Texas, your

2:07.0

sophomore year and was this for a cheer? Yes. Wow. It was all for cheer kind of well we also had some family here in Fort Worth, Texas.

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