Oireachtas Teams!!

Hello all-
Below are the names of our 5 teams going to the Oireachtas this November and the dancers who will be on the teams. Carin Patti and I were very impressed with the dancers who tried out. Everyone did a good job, unfortunately we did not have spots for all the dancers that auditioned this year. I hope all the dancers and families will respect the difficult decisions that we had to make to fill these teams. I look forward to working with these teams, and to a successful Oireachtas in Arizona!! Thanks
Robert

CLONMEL TEAM
APRIL OPSVIG
BROOKE WILKES
JOHANNAH FLAHIFF
LINDSEY SHOWALTER
MACKENZIE CASE
McKENNA THOMPSON
RILEY THOMPSON
SOPHIE HURST

TIPPERARY TEAM
CAITLIN DANIELS
EMILY HURST
KATRINA WEBER
KAYLEIGH MCGUIGAN
RACHEL STERN
STEVIE MORGA
SYDNEY DORE
TATIANA GALVINS

LISSEY CASEY TEAM
EVE GARRIGAN
KELLY SERKA
KELSIE JOHNSON
KYRA SPRAGUE
MADDY MURPHY
MEGAN TUEY
SARAH SILVERMAN
SHANNON RILEY

KILMALEY & INCH TEAMS
ANNA HALLEEN
BEKKA SHATTUCK
HANNAH TANKERSLEY
HILARIE KUZMA
JOY OPSIG
KELSEY GUSTAFSON
LAURA VENEMON
LEANNE COBB
MARGERY PULKKINEN
MAUREEN NASH
MEGAN TUEY
MICHELE HOWELL
NATALIE OPSVIG
ROBIN BARSON
SARA FOGARD
SHANNON RILEY
* The sixteen girls on these teams will work together and be divided into two teams by the end of the summer

Hello all

We sure had a fun time doing a show for the Rainb0w Girls last Saturday! Thanks to Shannon, Kassi, Anna, Renee, Maureen and Taryn. I really appreciate you taking the time on a Saturday to do this show. I had a great time hanging out with you and getting a blizzard from Dairy Queen. I think all the pagentry and costumes were very interesting. I think I have some good ideas for new solo costumes. I wish I knew more about what the Rainbow Girls are, I would have had a better appreciation of what was going on. I know that the Grand Worthy Advisor was very please with your dancing. I think she may have shed a tear or two! Thanks Bonnie Maureen and Kassi for your help with the marley floor. Showteam please remember we have shows on May 11th in OLY and May 25th in Port Angeles!! I am really looking forward to the Juan de Fuca festival, hope you are too.

I hope everyone is practicing hard this week and getting ready for the upcoming Comerford feis! We only have a few weeks left until the feis. I know many of you are working hard to move up to the next level. Keep up the good work, and PLEASE practice your left foot. I know there are only a few days left for LFAM, but you can still give some attention to your left foot in May too!

Patti Carin and I are almost done putting the teams together for the Oireachtas in AZ! It has been a bit of a challenge this year, but I think we almost have it done. Everyone did a great job at the tryout and the make up tryout today.

Hello Dancers

Well we had our tryouts for Oireachtas 8hand teams today!! I was very impressed at the quality of dancing. Patti Carin and I will be working hard this week to try and make as many good teams as possible. I look forward to working with the teams on a new 8hand the "Cross Reel". this dance is a bit more difficult than the " High Cauled Cap", but I know the dancers are up to it. Let's make sure to keep focused and work hard on our figures and we'll be on the podium come November!! Not to mention a fun weekend at the resort in AZ!!

While we are talking about figures, I would really like to make sure that we have lots of teams ready to compete figures at Dance for Life. We will be presenting an award to the school who wins the most figure competitions during the feis. This should prove to be an exciting challenge, and hopefully we will see an increase in the entries for figures at our feis!!

I think that's all for today! Keep practicing and remember it's still LFAM!!

Robert

First blog

Hello all
I thought it would be fun to start a blog for the school! I will try to keep up with what is currently happening at our school; feis results, show photos, fun news, that sort of thing. I think this will also be a place mostly for photos to be shared. I hope you will all enjoy this. I think there is a comment section, so please share with the group. Also if you have photos that you want to see on the blog, send them my way!
Recent News
Thank you to all the dancers who participated in a successful show season!! We had a good number of shows for each area that we teach. I was very excited to see the Tacoma, Oly, and Kent dancers helping eachother out and traveling to different shows. I know this made a difference in each studio and helped SRS put on the best shows possible!! I will try to download some photos from the Center House show. I am proud to say, I think this has been the best show we have done at the Center House over the years. Great work Patti and Carin. Special thanks to Erica, Lauren, and Taryn who each took the time to come in and help us organize and run such a great show! I look foward to further shows this year and more fun. Remember we have shows booked for the Juan de Fuca festival, The Scottish Rite Rainbow group, and the Olympia Boat show!!

Penk O'Donnell Feis
Congratulations to the dancers who competed at the Penk O'Donnell feis. we had a good sized group travel to Canada and compete. I am pleased to see how well all our dancers did at the feis. Special congratulations to Margery, who won her prelim and qualified to move up to Open Championships and to compete at the North American Championships. I hope no one had trouble getting all those medals and trophies across the boarder, we did take a lot away from Canada.
Good luck to all the dancers who plan to participate in the upcoming Comerford feis.

Well that's all for now.