By: Sydney Baird

The WVWC Dance Team is definitely a team that gets overlooked on campus. All the time and practices they put in each day all really for one competition.

The Women’s Dance Team is not a part of the NCAA instead they are just a competitive dance team. They dance at every home football game and will also be dancing at the campus bonfire as well. They are a very experienced group with six seniors and six juniors. As well as five sophomores and seven freshmen.

Saturday, September 7^th they traveled to Pennsylvania and competed in NDA College Nationals where they went and competed for a bid to go to Nationals. 

The first day was a Game Day Runoff Competition and then they had to learn a pro team dance which they had to perform for their evaluation. The evaluation is where the staffers judge the team on the pro team dance that they do in different categories like technique, performance value, memorization, and many more. 

The team evaluated on the second day and received a bronze paid bid to NDA College Nationals which is from April 9^th through the 13^th in Dayton Florida. They are also the champions in the Game Day Runoff Competition. 

A couple words from Senior Remmey Lohr: “The team is being built in such a positive environment with a great group of hardworking women. I think we have a great chance of placing high at nationals because everyone is willing to put in the effort. Big things are coming for us!”

Last year’s dance team only had thirteen girls with no seniors compared to this year’s twenty-four. They went to the same competition and placed second. This was the first time ever they have taken second in a routine at nationals. Also, last year’s team placed in the top five in both of the routines they do. Two years ago, the dance team placed in the top three at nationals. 

This year’s team has a chance to do something that no other dance team at this school has ever done and that is win nationals. That is a big task to ask for, but this team has experience with the seven seniors who have been on the previous teams that finished top five and top three. This would be a great way for them to end their collegiate career by winning nationals. 

Best of luck to the Dance Team!

Photo by Remmey Lohr