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Younger performers learn from Westlake High dance team
November 5th, 2011
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Westlake High School dance team member Maddie Olandt (right) takes a group of boys and girls through a routine. The children will perform with the dance team Friday.
The Westlake High School dance team recently led a dance clinic for youths who will perform for halftime at Friday night’s football game against Agoura High.
“The inspiration for our dance clinic was to have our WHS dancers create choreography for specific age groups and teach younger girls in the community,” said Adrienne Steele of Thousand Oaks, president of the dance team’s booster club.
“We also decided it was the best way also to raise money for our competitive dance team to offset the expenses of hiring coaches, choreographers, have costumes made, entry fees for competitions, transportation and hotel rooms,” Steele said.
The clinic, held Sunday at Westlake High, attracted 61 Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village residents from 4 to 13 years old. The high school dance team has 20 members ranging in age from 14 to 17.
“Our dancers have spent the last few weeks creating and teaching each other choreography that was taught to our clinic participants,” Steele said. “Our participants learned an entire dance that will be performed at Friday night’s game.”
Each clinic participant is scheduled to dance. Hosted by Westlake High, the show will have three groups, split by age, that will perform to songs, as well as a finale with all the dancers.
Samantha Pena, 6, of Thousand Oaks said she enjoyed dancing and learning new moves.
“I also liked the music and being with all the big girls,” she said. “I will try out for dance team when I’m big.”
Bella Francisco, 8, is on a competition dance team at Agoura Hills Dance.
“I take dance lessons, but I’ve never done these kinds of jazz moves before,” the Westlake Village resident said.
Amanda Francisco, 14, a Westlake High freshman who joined the dance team this year, helped teach jazz and hip-hop performance to 8- and 9-year-olds.
“I hope I taught them a valuable lesson in dance and that they had a lot of fun and made new friends,” she said.
“I didn’t realize so many young people were interested in dance.”
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Baseball: Connecticut Junior Select Team Announced
June 19th, 2011
The Connecticut Junior Select team, which will play the Massachusetts Junior team Sunday at Plainville High at 1 p.m.
Here’s the Connecticut roster:
Joe Burns St. Josephs High SchoolZack Brown Holy Cross High SchoolDylan Callahan Greenwich High SchoolTyler Bush Bristol Eastern High SchoolTroy DeLeon Xavier High SchoolNick Dummar Branford High SchoolGary Flowers Notre Dame High School, WHMatt Ederle Norwalk High SchoolDwayne Ellis Sacred Heart High SchoolTre Gonzalez Montville High SchoolMax Hart Montville High SchoolChase Livingston East Lyme High SchoolNolan Long Waterford High SchoolLiam O’Connor Avon High SchoolTom O’Brien Watertown High SchoolVin Siena Amity High School Ryan Zahornasky Shelton High SchoolAaron Wilson Northwest Catholic
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Baseball: Connecticut Junior Select Team Announced
June 18th, 2011
The Connecticut Junior Select team, which will play the Massachusetts Junior team Sunday at Plainville High at 1 p.m.
Here’s the Connecticut roster:
Joe Burns St. Josephs High SchoolZack Brown Holy Cross High SchoolDylan Callahan Greenwich High SchoolTyler Bush Bristol Eastern High SchoolTroy DeLeon Xavier High SchoolNick Dummar Branford High SchoolGary Flowers Notre Dame High School, WHMatt Ederle Norwalk High SchoolDwayne Ellis Sacred Heart High SchoolTre Gonzalez Montville High SchoolMax Hart Montville High SchoolChase Livingston East Lyme High SchoolNolan Long Waterford High SchoolLiam O’Connor Avon High SchoolTom O’Brien Watertown High SchoolVin Siena Amity High School Ryan Zahornasky Shelton High SchoolAaron Wilson Northwest Catholic
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Tani Tupou named to 2011 U.S. Under-19 National Team
December 18th, 2010
Archbishop Murphy’s Tani Tupou has been named to the 2011 U.S. Under-19 National Team, which was announced Tuesday.
The University of Washington recruit, who helped lead the Wildcats to the Class 2A title game, is one of 45 high-school seniors from 21 states and Washington, D.C., who will play Feb. 2 in Austin, Texas, against a team composed of 45 of the best players age 19 and under from outside of the United States, spanning four continents in the second Team USA vs. The World game.
Here is a link to the story and full roster on usafootball.com.
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Kristin Lutes makes all-decade volleyball team
August 9th, 2010
Kristin Lutes, a defensive specialist who was part of Kentlake’s three state championship volleyball teams from 2000-02, recently received a huge honor.
She was named the lone libero on Sacramento State’s all-decade volleyball team.
You can find more information on the team, and Kristin’s college bio, here.
The setter on the all-decade team — Lisa Beauchene — is also from Washington. She played at Fife High School.
Kristin is currently completing her master’s degree in secondary-education counseling and will be doing an internship at Tahoma this fall, according to her father, Dave.
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