MMHS Ellevés take 3rd at State!

February 4, 2011 was State Drill at UVU. It was a great day, a stressful one, but great in the end! We were going in with a 1st place military, 1st place dance, and a 2nd place kick. So, we had really good placement. All of the first place routines perform last, rotating between the regions. For military, we were the very last 4A military to perform. So, there was a lot of pressure to look our very best!

We had not hit all of our headstands at a competition yet! We had one person fall at Region, and one person fall at the last invitational. But, we had hit them at our Region Preview night and at a couple of basketball game performances, not to mention several times in our practices! So, we knew we could do it, it was just now, we needed to hit them at state!

Well, WE HIT THEM AT STATE! Yay! It was so exciting and felt so good! They were very excited as they came off the floor. I even had to do a "two touch" jump! As terrible as it looked, it was what one of the girls said I would do if they all hit their headstands at State!

We ended up placing 2nd in Military, 3rd in Dance, and 3rd in Kick. So, we were 3rd overall! We totally improved from last year and we beat everyone in our Region--again!

Once I got the score sheets, we saw that we had actually tied in dance with Bonneville. But, to break the tie, they look at all 5 judges rankings and see which team was placed higher by the most judges. So, Bonneville had 3 judges placing them highest and we only had two! If only we had placed 2nd in dance, we would have been 2nd overall! That just shows how close it was. I'm still so proud of my team and what we have accomplished this year! They are amazing and I have enjoyed working with them this year!

MMHS Elleves--3rd Place Overall at State!
My amazing senior Elleves!

Three of my seniors, Makenzie, Mikel, and Alli were named to the 4A Academic All-State for their high GPA's. Three more of my seniors, Krizia, Kourtney, and Savannah were named to the 4A All-State Dance Team--something that only two school's accomplished--all three of their girls making the team! One more of my seniors, Edynn, won the 4A Drill Team Scholarship. Then another senior and one junior placed in the drill down--Alexus was 3rd and Kimber was 2nd!

It was a great day! So proud of all of our accomplishments--and we are only a second-year team!