On Tuesday night, it was the Lamphere Varsity Dance Team’s last basketball game of the season, and the Lamphere Varsity senior dancers’ last game ever. So let’s take a deeper look at two of our senior athletes’ experiences from their emotional and sentimental night.
Kaylee Stong
Senior night was so much fun and was a great way to end our basketball season. I wasn’t that emotional and heartbroken because I was trying to stay focused and locked into my performance. The crowd was bigger for this game, because not only the dance team but also the girls’ basketball team had their senior night too. So the stands were really full. Which meant I had to give a bigger performance. Knowing that this was my last time performing at Lamphere High School meant that I had something to prove. I wanted to make every practice and run-through count when I went out on the basketball court. I wanted to make my mark at this school. The performance felt great overall. I really felt connected to my audience, and that I was selling my performance to them, and showed how much fun I was having out there while executing everything I do precisely and with perfection. It is pretty sad that I won’t be able to perform and entertain my Lamphere community anymore, but now I am focused on getting even stronger for our last competition this weekend. To just put everything out there and have a true goodbye to the sport that’s been there for me when I needed to express myself and my feelings without speaking. The sport that makes me who I am.
Lilly Miller
Senior night was so much fun, and I feel like for me it just made everything more real, and I got a little emotional, and I felt that it was a good way to end the basketball season. I’m going to truly miss seeing these girls every day and dancing with them. It’s just crazy how fast time actually goes by, and I can’t wait to see where the team goes in the future. At the end of half time show, our parents gave us a bag and had notebooks in there that was custom made with photos of the team. Inside the notebook, our parents watched us read a message that they wrote for us, and it was a very touching way to end the basketball season. I felt like this time, for the first time in my life i was dancing for me, and I don’t care what anybody else was thinking. I just really tried to hone in on the little things, like the things we do before we hit the floor. Dance truly means so much to me, as I feel like when I dance, I can ignore everything else and just focus on dance.
This night was created to honor the graduating seniors and to show how hard they worked over the years to get to this point. This was a very important moment, as it was the seniors’ last game and the last time performing at a school where they had made so much growth as people and athletes. Thank you to all five seniors on the team for what you have put into this program and have done for the team as a whole.
