The Ashwaubenon Jaguaress Dance Team is an award-winning athletic program with a tradition of high standards and expectations. Its purpose is to cultivate a love of dance among its members, to develop a true sense of self-discipline and excellence in working together as a team, and to foster a sense of community and responsibility to each other, to the program, and to the Ashwaubenon High School community. The Jaguaress Dance Team is a competitive team, truly comparable to all sports at Ashwaubenon High School. While on the team the girls learn the concepts and movement patterns of 4 different styles of dance. Pom - emphasis on synchronization and visual effect. High Kick - emphasis on quality of kicks and visual effect. Jazz - Emphasis on technical moves, style, and execution. Hip-Hop - Emphasis on sharp, synchronized choreography; street dance or hip hop style. The girls are required to a two-season (Fall and Winter) commitment during the school year. We perform at all home varsity football games in the fall including the Homecoming Pep Assembly and Parade as well as the majority of both Boys and Girls Varsity Basketball games in winter. We also perform at all the post season games for both the Football and Basketball teams if they make it into the playoffs. The competition portion of the season starts in November. The team competes at 7 to 8 various competitions on Saturdays throughout winter. In the past the team has attended the Homestead Dance Classic, Hortonville Dance Invitational, Pulaski Showcase, Milwaukee Bucks Dance Competition, Green Bay Holiday Dance Classic, Little Chute Invitational, Freedom Irish Invite, and the Kaukauna Dance Classic. At the end of the season there is the WACPC Regional Competition that the team can perform two of their best competition routines. If either/both of the routines qualifies, there is then the WACPC State Dance Competition in Lacrosse Wisconsin the first weekend in February. On select years we choose to continue our season by attending a National Competition. Dance Xtreme in Minneapolis Minnesota and Contest of Champions in Orlando Florida are National Competitiions we have traveled to in the past. In 2011, the Ashwaubenon Jaguaress Dance Team decided to host the first ever dance competition at Ashwaubenon High School for various other High School Varsity, JV, Middle School and Collegiate Dance Teams throughout Wisconsin to come and compete at. The Ashwaubenon Dance Invite was a grand success in 2011 and will be an annual dance competition in December. This competition will be used as a fundraiser in hopes to raise enough money to take the team to Nationals and pay for the cost of new Uniforms for the Team. Coaches: Rodney Anderson ([email protected]), and Andrew Meinel ([email protected])
