Meet the Marsh Brothers.
I’m John Marsh, and I am his brother, Josh Marsh, and we’re cheerleaders here at the
University of Kentucky.
Go CATS!
Coming to UK was a dream of mine because UK cheer is so huge in the cheer world.
Since 1985 we’ve won 20 championships so this was a no brainer if you got the chance.
I’m just glad I got the chance.
We always like to challenge each other and that’s awesome.
Us both being here was a blessing and our parents loved it.
We’re at the point where it’s go hard or go home.
We like to feed off of each other.
Yeah.
Let’s make the crowd go wild.
We really don’t know what we’re going to do before that game.
So right before it’s time to tumble, we’ll like brainstorm some cool stuff.
We know what the crowd will like.
So like the last game, we figured it out literally as everybody else was going.
So we’ll be like let’s do ten back handsprings in a row and the crowd will love it…back
handsprings, back whips, something crazy.
Games and stuff they are fun, you know we like to hit the crowd, yeah.
Games and stuff are fun.
We like to see the crowd.
But competition is serious.
It’s not a joke.
Like we said, we came here because of the winning attitude that they have and the winning
tradition that they have.
So we like to win.
. We do the things that the other teams don’t do.
We try to make it look easy, yeah we try to make it look easy.
That’s why when it comes to are you going to see your family for Christmas, we only
get a couple of days.
We’re not getting that week.
We’re only getting a couple of days.
Some people don't even get to go see their families because it’s two a days.
We put the hard work in.
We are going to go out there - we’re going to hit, we’re going to win and we’re going
to take the championship.
We’ll be doing a combination of two a days and performances.
So the practices range from 2 hours to 3 hours and that’s two times a day everyday until
competition.
Two a days is easily the hardest part of the season.
We put the hard work in.
Our biggest goal as a team standpoint is hit.
When you’re up there, I just feel like if everyone does their job - performs, has a
good time, electrifies the crowd - I feel like we can achieve 21.
Jomo always preaches, “You go out there, you are the best, act like it.
Perform.
Act like it.”
There’s nothing more exciting than hitting a routine.
There’s literally nothing more exciting because as that first thing hits, you’re
like oh my gosh we did it and then you go to the next thing and it hits and you’re
like we’ve got the flow!
And you can feel as that last thing hits, it’s over.
Let’s do it!
It’s like, Boom, drop the mic.
When we’re in competition we’re always supporting each other.
Iron sharpens iron.
That’s basically our relationship.
He 100% looking out for me and I ‘m looking out for him.
But I’m also gunning for his spot and he knows that which works for him because he’s
like, “I can’t let my little brother beat me.”
I got to stay up there and I can’t let him surpass me so I have to keep fighting for
it.
So until that day we’re still going to be pushing.
It doesn’t matter if it’s in cheerleading or business or anything in life.
I feel like we’re always going to have that iron sharpening iron relationship.
And I think it’s going to be awesome.
Josh, man, that’s my boy!
That’s my little brother.
He’s literally my best friend.
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Josh.
I’m the little brother so I'm always looking up to John.
John is the role model that every boy or every girl needs in their life.
I feel like without John there wouldn’t be that role model.
I feel like we have a really good relationship when it comes to driving each other so we
can reach success in anything in life.
I think cheering with him and being on the same team is legit.
I think it’s awesome.
I know even outside of this, even when he leaves, we’ll still have the good relationship.
We'll still always have that bond.
Hopefully we’ll both makes lots of money and be able to retire and then go travel the
world together.
That would be awesome.
I would love to do that.
I’m John Marsh, and I’m his brother Josh Marsh and we’re proud to be a Big Blue Family.