Starting an M.H.S. dance team is no easy task. It may seem as if the team only had to schedule try-outs, purchase uniforms, and show up on every other occasion to show off the latest moves. Our team this year is made up of only the best of the best when it comes to breathing life into a skeleton of unrecognizable talent. Our team has taken the seemingly impossible initiative to aide in reforming a team we all thought might forever go extinct.

The dance (a.k.a spirit) team has fallen in and out of existence since the squads decline at the end of the school year in 05. A woman everyone knew as Ms. Betsy coached the team. She did her best in helping build the team, but left a few short months into the end fall season. Leaving the team in great debt and in the hands of choreographer Eye-Shante, Ms. Betsy resigned as head of the Spirit Team.



For the remainder of the fall season and halfway into the spring, Eye-Shante showed up consistently to further educate the squad. Each member worked hard to insure the improvement they seemed to lack. Though the team never went on to championships, they put together routines to help fill their assigned performance slots for the annual talent show and the varsity halftime shows.

Eye-Shante’s mother came down with an unknown disease and as a result he was forced to move out of state and resign as well. Without an adult sponsor, supervisor or coach the team became unable to perform. Instead of holding practices that summer in preparation for the upcoming school year, the team called it quits and thus marked the final straw for the MHS Spirit Team. Or so we thought! Former dance student Whitley Hadley had something else in mind. She along with myself, and Ashley Harper were determined to find the nearest exit around such an unfortunate problem. With the help of staff member Amy Sanchez, and dance choreographer (and today’s coach) Zaneta Hadley, a new team was formed. It began with an announcement of try-outs and has now transformed into the incredible team you see today. The team has experienced everything from financial issues to eagerly awaiting a response to being considered an actual team. Even today, the squad still faces

troubles that team captain, Gabriell Hale says, “Are never too hard to overcome.”

The MHS dance team will always and forever be hardworking, dedicated, and true to its goal of being loyal icons and showing the unknown what it’s like to be a true Mitchell Marauder.