High School Drill Team Dance

As a young lady growing up I have attempted multiple sports and activities such as soccer, basketball, volleyball, track and etc. However, I was never able to allow these extracurricular activities define my in an essential way in high school. Instead of a traditional high school sport, I had the opportunity to make dance an essential talent/interest of mine. Within most of my years of high school drill team dance has had an influential effect on how I define myself. Dance/drill team has had this affect one me because this activity is time consuming, challenging, and I have experienced significant growth within this activity. After my education, drill/dance team is one of my top priorities because being a part of the Cedar Hill Highsteppers is very time consuming. I spend about 22 hours a week participating in dance, which doesn’t include the hours I stay after practice helping others and the time taken up from practicing at home. Therefore, drill team has become a defining activity for me because I do it so frequently that it has become a part of me. Everything I do is

Learning and teaching new choreography every other day is hard enough, but also having to keep up with strong technique and flexibility along with workouts makes things even tougher. Nonetheless, needing to excel in all of these aspects of drill team add to the amount of time I taking working on dance and trying to improve. No matter how long I have been dancing, there is always room for improvement. This characteristic the lies within dance is influential to how I carry myself because I always see that there’s room for improvement. This has affected my school life because I do not settle for passing grades; instead, I reach for the highest score I can get. In other words, drill team has given me the ability to set high standards for myself and be able to reach