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Sachse
(March 8) -
The Sundancers closed out the competition season
with a bang Saturday at Sachse High School at Crowd
Pleasers Regional Dance/Drill Team Competition! Awards
are as follows:
Soloists
receiving 1st Division ratings (score of 85
or above): Taylor Newman, Lara Wilson, Laura Pena,
Erin Peters, Adriana Wood, Kelsey Jones, and Stella
Wong.
Officers:
The officers made it a 3-peat! Three competitions
in a row they are GRAND CHAMPION officers!
Best in category for prop and novelty,
1st runner up for jazz, and sweepstakes.
Team:
Super sweepstakes, Best in Category for
EVERY DANCE-kick, military, jazz,
and production-and GRAND CHAMPION TEAM!!!
Burleson
(March 1) -
They competed at the Showtime International's Texas
State Drill Team Contest at Burleson High School.
Awards are:
Officers-Sweepstakes-all
scores 85 or over, Judges Award for all scores
90 or above, Best in Category Officer Prop,
Officer Jazz, and 1st Runner Up for Officer
Novelty; Circle of Champions for highest scoring
officer line!! Two in a row!!
Team-Sweepstakes,
Judges Award, Best in Category Team High
Kick and Production for the Las Vegas number,
1st Runner Up for Team Jazz
But
the best news of the day is all about the Starlettes!!
The JV team competes only one time a year, so it was
all or nothing for them this past weekend. And let's
just say, they WON IT ALL!! Awards are:
Trio
of Haylie Perry, Bria Palmer, and Katie Curtis-1st
place JV Trio
Soloists
Alyssa Morales, Caitlin Stringer, and Courtney Clark
all received Division I ratings on their solos.
Officers-Division
I Rating, Best in Category-JV Officer Pom (Elizabeth
Burke, Bria Palmer, Alyssa Morales, and Caitlin
Stringer)
Team-Sweepstakes,
Judges Award, Best in Category JV Team Novelty
and Military, 1st Runner up for JV Team
Pom
Sweepstakes, Judges Award and....Overall
GRAND CHAMPION JV TEAM!!!!
Weatherford (February 23) -
The Sundancers competed Saturday
at Weatherford High School in Danceline Productions'
Fort Worth Area Competition.
1st
Lieutenant, Senior, Taylor Newman,
placed 4th out of 60 high school
soloists! This is a huge accomplishment!
Senior Briana Hobbs was 2nd
runner up in the toe touch contest
held after the regular contest had concluded. About
40 dancers entered this contest, and it was very exciting
to watch Briana advance round after round in front
of hundreds of people.
Seniors Lara Wilson and Ryan Perry
advanced to semi-finals of the high kick contest,
and sophomore Erin Peters advanced to semi-finals
in the turns contest.
The officers (Lara Wilson,
Taylor Newman, Charlene Clarke, Jasmine Scott, Cody
Coke, and Adriana Wood) received sweepstakes
for all scores 90 or above, Best
in Category for Officer Novelty, a
judges' award for overall presentation, and
were GRAND CHAMPIONS of the officer contest!!
This is the first time in my eight years of
directing that I have ever had an officer line to
win Grand Champions!! The officers are the best
of the best of each team, so for our officers to be
the Grand Champs means our best were better than the
all the other schools best.. Big, big deal in
dance/drill team competitions.
The team also received sweepstakes
for scores all above 90, and were
Best in Category for military and high kick.
The were 1 point from a perfect score on high
kick! Another first in my career! Huge achievement
by these ladies. These categories are very competitive.
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