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At cheerleading competitions, the audience always sees just one side of the sport — the one with the perfect smiling cheerleaders and entertaining routines.

It’s the nature of the sport. The athletes are supposed to give the crowd energy and excitement, so they can’t show any weakness or struggles when they’re out on the performance mat.

But it’s also a very tough sport, and these young athletes have to invest a lot of time and effort in training to be the best. That’s the side of cheerleading that audiences rarely see.

To show just how much the sport means to the athletes, and how hard they’ve trained, we decided to record 15-second interviews with the teams immediately before and after they performed at CHEER 2015, and upload them on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s what we got:

Cheer captain of Thunder says they did a "perfect routine" #cheer2015 Congrats guys!

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And here’s how much it means to win at CHEER:

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