Message-ID: <24227741.1075856075287.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: sally.beck@enron.com To: suew2@aol.com, cwhite@viviance.com, cwhite@texas.usta.com Subject: Report from State Competition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Sally Beck X-To: suew2@aol.com, cwhite@viviance.com, cWhite@texas.usta.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Sally_Beck_Jun2001\Notes Folders\Sent X-Origin: Beck-S X-FileName: sbeck.nsf We got back from Dallas yesterday about 5:00 and it was a fun and very fruitful trip for the team. Schools are categorized by size - small, medium, large and super. Klein is super-sized. The Bearkadettes won first place and the grand champion trophy in the super category. Best in Category awards are given for each category of team dance entered, regardless of school size. Klein won best in category for all four team dances entered - kick, pom, military and jazz - a clean sweep. Klein also had the first place winner in the solo category and first place in the duet category. Also won first place in officer dances for super sized schools. They also won two special judges awards - not given out every time, but only when the judges want to especially recognize achievements. They got a special judges award for Creativity and Originality (commentary on both our fabulous costumes made by a group of Bearkadette moms and the choreography) and a special judges award for Perfect Score (a score of 100 awarded by all 3 judges for a particular routine - apparently very rare). The Perfect Score award was for their pom routine, where they are dressed like penguins (one of the ones that Meagan was in). The girls were pretty excited and the moms were cheering a lot, too. They all work so hard and spend so many hours practicing that it is nice to see that pay off!! I am ordering the video from competition, so we can show you the routines sometime. I had a lot of fun. The girls are cute and I enjoyed getting to know some of the moms who were chaperoning as well. But it was nice to get back to Houston yesterday.