'Tis the Season

Tis the season for drill team competition and dance concerts! On Monday, December 1st, my classes performed in the Payson High Dance Department Showcase. It went really well--a few technical difficulties, but we had a good size crowd and the dancers all had fun.

The rest of that week was busy with baskeball games, parent teacher conferences, and then my drill team's first competition on Saturday, December 6th at Timpview High School.

Here is the team eating lunch which was provided by some of the team moms. They had decorated the table and gave the girls some cute "frog" items. Our team theme this year is "Nothing is Out of Reach" with frogs as the logo. We have a different theme/motto each year just to make it fun and different for each team.

The competition turned out really well for us! The Paysetters placed 1st in each of their routines! We were very excited. We competed in the military, dance, kick, and prop categories. The competition was a new one this year, and so it was small. So we were actually unopposed in kick and prop. But, oh well, we came home with 4 big trophies and we were pretty excited.
We had a little "break down" in our prop routine. One of the benches broke during the routine. Well, at least that is what I thought when it happened. But, what actually happened is one of the girls got too close to the bench and leaped right into it and pushed out the bottom of the bench, causing it to fall and then crack on one of the sides! When it happened, I said to my assistant, "What just happened? How did that bench break?" Luckily it was near the end of the routine and she could just fake the rest of the dance and she wasn't injured. She just had a scrape on the back of her knee. Here she is with the broken bench.

We didn't get a penalty--but I guess it wouldn't have mattered anyway, we were the only 4A team in the prop category, so we would have received 1st place either way.