Flyerettes: Bringing new team

During warm-ups for the Varsity basketball game between Mason and Sycamore on Dec. 20, the Flyerettes perform their sidelines. The 19 team members go along one side of the basketball court. This line will shrink to 14 next year. Photo courtesy of MCD Photo.

After three days of learning the dance and one day of tryouts, the SHS dance team has seven new members alongside their new coach.

The tryouts on April 24 cut none of the 14 trying out.

Only seven of the 19 from the 2013-2014season, are part of the now 14 dancer team for the 2014-2015school year. Three of those seven will be seniors in the fall.

“I’m going to rely heavily on those seven girls to be leaders. They need to show the new girls what it is to be a Flyerette, how to prepare during practice and beyond,” said Brittany Grecco, the Flyerettes new coach.

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Grecco is taking over for her sister Ashley McNamara after five years as coach.

The new team will have:

Two future freshman
Eight future sophomores
One future junior
Three future seniors

“We had 19 last year, 14 are not a huge drop-off but still something. We also lost the leadership of our 12 seniors. The other two seniors and I have to make up for that,” said Emily Spry, 11.

The seven remaining Flyerettes used different tactics to get students to join for example:

A video
Flyers
Spreading the word

“I think we could have done more to promote ourselves but to get seven more teammates is impressive,” said Calista Robbins, 10.

About the Contributor

Lauren Kurtzer, Creative Projects Director

Hi! My name is Lauren Kurtzer and I am a senior here at SHS; thus making it my fourth year in convergence journalism. Looking back on everything I learned and done in room 115, I can not believe it went by that quickly. Being on the staff of The Leaf I have picked up many skills on writing, design, and leadership that I can take to the future. I learned many of those skills through leadership positions of feature chief sophomore year; associate editor junior year, where I made sure articles are up to AP Style; creative projects director this year, I am part of a team that works on the major cover stories like the crazy election. I have written and designed for all four of our platforms. For the past three years, I have also written a sports column on every issue; I cover the morale issues of the NFL and my teams the Reds, Bengals and Buckeyes. Outside of room 115, I am the co-captain of the dance team I have been on for four years, the Flyerettes. I am also heavily involved in the Jewish community. I am the Programming Vice President for my temple’s youth group, which is a part of NFTY Ohio Valley, and the Social Action Programmer for Young Judaea Midwest youth movement. On Sundays, I am a madricha or assistant teacher at my Religious School.