Dance Team Analysis

Freshmen year I joined the dance team and started my journey into an entirely new world. I had taken dance lessons since I was 5, but being on a team was different. It was more like a sisterhood. Over my high school career the dance team slowly fell into turmoil. Each year we lost people due to grades, injury, or the member simply graduated. I want my legacy to be the revival of the dance team. The end of Junior year led to the coaches leaving. This would be the third time the dance team would have a switch of hands in four years. However, this time, there would not be anyone willing to take on the position of coach. For the last couple months of school, and well into the summer, a couple of girls and I went around asking teachers and other employees if they would take on the position and had a school wide email sent out. They all said they either did not have the time or had no interest in dance. We even talked to administration about a parent coming to the school to be our sponsor, but they said that it would have to …show more content…
The others had either graduated or moved on to other activities. The coaches set up a meeting for us and only two of the girls came, myself included. It would later be discovered that we had the wrong number of the other girl. We had a mini tryout for the two of us and we both made the team. The coaches were new to everything so we provided a guiding hand and put in our own opinions on how we could make the team better. Freshman orientation came and we passed out fliers about our upcoming tryouts and talked to people about the team. The day seemed like a success. The school’s Facebook page posted about the tryouts and a recorded phone call was sent to all of the students. Tryouts had a bright outlook. At the end of tryouts the team totaled twelve people, the largest the team had ever been when I was on it. There was a lot of hard work to come, but it would be well worth