A week ago today the team, on which my grand daughter dances, was announced as one of the six teams in the preliminary dance competition for Class A scheduled to dance second in the championship round around 5:30 p.m.
And dance all they did! Dance teams of fewer than ten and teams of more than thirty (Bombers team totals 32). More than fifty dance teams in Class A, Class AA and Class AAA representing Minnesota High Schools, private and public. The skill, cooperation and support for each other and each other's teams was unlike anything I had experienced before.
While the Cannon Falls Bombers were performing, the Sartell-St. Stephen's Sabre fans waited for the Bomber fans to exit to the right so they could enter from the left. This arrangement reversed when the Sabre team performed. At the end of the day, the Sabres finished first in Class AA.
The Bomber team and coaches were on the top of the world - exhilerated and exhausted. This was the fifth time the Bombers High Kick Team took first in state competition. On Tuesday evening, February 22 their joy turned to saddness when their entire team of coaches resigned citing coaching requires long days away from their families. The girls were naturally devistated. They "see" this situation through a much different lense than this proud gramma.
Using the preferred form of communication with teens just now, I texted my grand daughter first of all expressing saddness for this unexpected turn of events and then suggested that being the top team in their state division I was confident that there would be coaches standing in line to coach such athletic, talented, committed young women. She texted back "thanks."
I continue to be awed by all of the young women athletes and state teams. Now a week later I continue to celebrate the opportunity this presents to them and their taking advantage of the opportunity in exemplary ways.
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