Drill Team Happenings

Starting in November, the drill team really starts gearing up for competition. We work for all year, but it seems as soon as football season is over and it is November, then you really start to feel it. Here are some pics from various events that we have had during November and December.

To "kick off" the first week of competition, we had a "fireside" on Sunday, December 11th. The officers asked one of the teachers at school, Coach Darrell Wyatt, to come speak to the team. We had the fireside at Kaitlynn Blood's house and it was really nice. Coach Wyatt gave a very good message to the team and I felt it was just what we needed to hear as a team. Here are some pics from the fireside. He thought that is was cool because it was a fireside by an actual "fire"!

Drill Team Fireside with Coach Wyatt

On December 15, we had our annual Drill Team Christmas party. It was held at Shalee Hiskey's home in Covered Bridge.

We had soup in bread bowls, salad, and yummy brownie sundaes! Here is a pic of the team after we had opened our gifts:

Elleve Christmas Party

This pic is a little bit out of order, but I wanted to post a pic of our new dance costumes. This was just after our performance at the basketball game at UVU during Thanksgiving break. We have since added to this costume, because I was told it was a little "blah". So, we will see what everyone thinks after they see the new addition to it!

Elleves - first performance of dance!

This year, all drill teams get to compete with a character routine. It is similar to novelty, but you can't use a backdrop and if you use props, they have to be used and contribute to the routine. Our character routine is a "tribal/African" theme dance. Here are some pics just before the first time we performed it:

Our costumes have feathers - they caused a little bit of drama that night. They were all over the floor, and the ref got a little bit stressed, then this caused the Assistant Principal to be stressed, then this caused me to be stressed! Oh, well, they looked great!
Then, this year, the wrestling coach asked me if the drill team would perform at a wrestling match. I looked at the schedule and saw that there was a home match on December 20, so I said we would on that particular date so we could perform a Christmas dance. Which is basically one of our camp routines set to Christmas music!

Merry Christmas from the MMHS Elleves!

We've been having fun and the hard work has been paying off!