Officer Retreat 2013

Just as you're closing one drill team year, you are also starting the next one.  It's hard, because you are sad to be losing the seniors and the current team, but you are also excited to get things going with the new team.  It's also stressful, because you have two teams at the same time.  Yes, there are members on both teams and sometimes it's just a difference of a few people, but it can still be a little bit crazy trying to keep things straight and get things done in time for the new team since they will be going to BDT camp in a month! 

First, the officers attended the BDT Leadership Camp or as I call it - Officer Retreat.  It was held up at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah again this year on May 10 and 11.  We had a great time and the officers learned how to be even better leaders and made some great goals for themselves and our team for the upcoming year.

Having fun before the retreat started.

 Each team of officers were asked to bring candy that represented their school.  Well, that was easy for us - M&Ms for Maple Mountain and for "make it matter"!

 The group presenting the bag of candy to the other teams and then adding it to the candy basket to share.

 Getting started planning our year!

 They received a star pin and learned what each point of the star stands for in being on a team and being a leader.  Nikki Ashton, one of the BDT staff is posing with them.

 The new officers successfully completed the training and are ready to lead our team!

We picked our theme for the year - "Give it all you've got all the time.  Teamwork makes the dream work!"  We'll use clocks as our symbol for the year.  I'm excited for this group--they want to continue the work ethic that the previous team had and work even harder to achieve our goals.  It's going to be fun to see where this group of officers can lead this team!