Will Hevy make the cheerleading team?
Every morning for the past three months, U student Imatu Hevy has had the same food for breakfast-two Wheat Thins hand-dipped in an ounce of V8. Hevy says the meal gives her the “right” amount of energy to get to her 8 a.m. gymnastics class in the HPER on time. After an hour of tumbling, twisting and flipping, Hevy makes her way to the Marriott Library to study old tapes of the U’s cheerleaders. “I can do that,” she says with a bit of resentment on her breath as she watches one cheerleader do a back handspring. Hevy skips lunch, but pops some kettle corn to eat on the way to East High School, where she helps teach aspiring young women how to fall “if the guy holding you up isn’t strong enough.” Hevy prepares a chicken sandwich without mayo and a salad for dinner, and then it’s off to the scale. “Oh, I don’t think I can look,” she says. Hevy holds her breath, pauses, and looks down at the digital display. It reads 124 pounds, just like it has for the past two weeks. Hevy brushes her tee
