News and Updates Nov. 5th 2012

 Welcome to week 3!  Competitions are less than two weeks away for those early conference meets and invites - we'll be reporting results and getting the competitions underway very soon.  Can't wait to see what everyone is up to!  Today's updates are about the miss dance team MN competition and some MSHSL goings on are at the bottom of the page -- check out the results release below.  Congratulations to all the winners!  

Back on October 28, over 50 dancers from across Minnesota came together to represent their schools at the 11^th annual Miss Dance Team Minnesota competition. The event was held at Eastview High School in Apple Valley and was run by Director, Jenny Raiche.

The Miss Dance Team MN competition is an opportunity for dancers to represent their teams as a soloist. Dancers in the “Miss” division are seniors or junior leaders on their teams. There was also a best of Minnesota category in 9^th, 10^th and 11^th grade. Winners then qualify for the national Miss Dance Drill Team USA competition in Orange County, California. The national competition is in it’s 61^th year of existence, and Minnesota dancers have placed amongst the best in the nation for the past 10 years!

22 dancers competed this year for the title of Miss Dance Team MN. Coming in 6^th place was awarded to Paige Anderson from Edina. 5^th place is Katie Segner from Benilde-St. Margaret’s. 4^th place went to Brainerd Kixter, Grace Gilbertson. The top three went: 2^nd runner-up – Anna Jergensen from Maple Grove, 1^st runner-up – Mikayla Larson from Eastview and finally our 2012 Miss Dance Team Minnesota is Madeline Honke from Wayzata. These dancers along with other names to Team Minnesota will have the opportunity to travel to California in March to represent Minnesota at the nationals.

Additional results from this year’s Miss Dance Team Minnesota competition were as follows.

9^th “Best of MN” division

1^st place: Molly Campbell, Eastview

2^nd place: Morgan Bragg, Eastview

10^th grade “Best of MN” division

1^st place: Alli Getz, Rogers

2^nd place: Mikayla DeNicola, Eastview

3^rd place: Ava Woyno, Maple Grove

11^th grade “Best of MN” division

1^st place: Olivia Corcoran, Eastview

2^nd place: Karissa Bolton, Blaine

3^rd place: Jacqueline Beiter, Benilde-St. Margaret’s

Updates on MSHSL happenings:  For those of you who follow other MSHSL sports, you may have noticed the new format for section tournaments in 6A football this year.  Those teams heading to state have been chosen, but this will be something dance team's should keep an eye on as a possible set up for section tournaments in our future, as the "section finals" idea did not get out of region meetings after all was said and done for dance team.  

This is the first real deviation from a strictly geographical assignment that I've seen done by the league, and boy were the first year results interesting!  The 32 largest football schools (by enrollment) were placed into 4 sections, where they played one head-to-head game, winner advancing to the "crossover" section game.  Then the winning teams from the geographical section faced the winners of another geographical section to determine who would earn a berth at state.  Interestingly, all the state berth winners this year were from the south and west metro sections.  Not one team from the north or east metro advanced this year.   While this is only my opinion, I feel dance team is also somewhat (not always) stacked in this geographical way, where we get a geographical (and league preferred) representation at state, but not a "tournament of champions" where only the best qualify.  It will be interesting to see how this format holds up to the inevitable complaints and scrutiny by the north and east metro winners who didn't send a single team to state.  Will they feel a bit left behind by this new format?  Is it really "fair"?  Doesn't this just show how unbalanced our current system is for all sports when it ends up this lopsided?  (I think it exposes a lot) What direction are we really going in - geography or best of the best?  Keep an eye on this conversation and see how much this guides the future of league tournaments...should be interesting! 

WOW Factor Sports Target Center Invitational Date Change!

Due to a double booking at the Target Center, the WOW Factor Sports MSHSL portion of their invitational has change dates to Saturday, January 26th.  

New New New!

There is so much going on this fall in the world of dance team - I thought you'd like to hear about what is new around here at MN HS Dance Team.com!  

First off, I have exciting news that this year all scores and rank points will be provided directly by the judging panel following the end of the meet!  That means we won't be needing results submitted directly to the site - saving me hours and hours of tracking you all down.  JAM judges and the MSHSL are on board with this plan, and DX looks to be doing the same once I get details ironed out with everyone.  Of course, if your meet isn't covered for some reason, you can always submit results that get missed the old fashioned way.  Look for things to be more timely, accurate, and complete!  

Be sure to check out the rest of the site - pages are updated with NEW competition dates for 2012-13.  If you have dates to add, be sure to send them in!  Check the links for your favorite team - if your website has moved, send me updates!  There is also still time for advertisers to get on board for this year - email mnhsdanceteam@gmail.com for our advertisers packet if you want in for this year.  

Also, we're kicking off a new series this fall on Thursdays all about information for new parents and the basics of this sometimes, shall we say, unique sport.  Once the season is underway we'll be digging into some scoresheet basics for spectators and doing some great interviews, tips, and behind the scenes looks in the world of dance team.  

Up next - we're talking new trends for costumes this year with Satin Stitches! 

Upcoming MADT Deadlines:

Coaches have some upcoming deadlines to make sure get on the calendar for the end of the season.  Some are only for MADT members, and should be completed on the MADT website. 

1/18/12:  Coach of the Year, Assistant of the Year, and Rookie of the Year, and Hall of Fame NOMINATIONS are due Wednesday, January 18th.  (MADT only, web submission form)

1/20/12: MADT All-State nomination videos are due (MADT member coaches only)

2/3/12: Team academic and Senior academic all state awards sheet submitted to MADT (MADT only)

2/7/12: Last day to submit and certify photo and submit state program form to MSHSL

2/8/12 or 2/13/12: Last day to send in reserved ticket orderforms to MSHSL (based on section date)

2/13/12: Last day to reserve state hotel rooms for competing teams

3/24/12: Senior MADT scholarship submissions due (MADT member schools only)

State Performance Order Has Arrived

Time to get excited for state!  The MSHSL has posted the state order of performance (with no schools) on it's website.  Who will be filling those spots?? Where do you think your favorite team might place?  Turn that into a performance order with the lineup posted below:

High Kick Performance Order - No Schools

Class	Performance Order	Marking Time	Performance Time (approx.)	Section Qualifier
A	7	8:30	12:48 p.m.	1A1st
A	1	8:00	12:00 p.m.	1A2nd
A	2	8:05	12:08 p.m.	1A3rd
A	10	8:45	1:12 p.m.	2A1st
A	5	8:20	12:32 p.m.	2A2nd
A	8	8:35	12:56 p.m.	2A3rd
A	12	8:55	1:28 p.m.	3A1st
A	9	8:40	1:04 p.m.	3A2nd
A	3	8:10	12:16 p.m.	3A3rd
A	11	8:50	1:20 p.m.	4A1st
A	4	8:15	12:24 p.m.	4A2nd
A	6	8:25	12:40 p.m.	4A3rd
AA	8	10:10	3:25 p.m.	1AA1st
AA	9	10:20	3:35 p.m.	1AA2nd
AA	5	9:40	2:55 p.m.	1AA3rd
AA	2	9:10	2:25 p.m.	2AA1st
AA	12	10:50	4:05 p.m.	2AA2nd
AA	11	10:40	3:55 p.m.	2AA3rd
AA	7	10:00	3:15 p.m.	3AA1st
AA	1	9:00	2:15 p.m.	3AA2nd
AA	10	10:30	3:45 p.m.	3AA3rd
AA	3	9:20	2:35 p.m.	4AA1st
AA	4	9:30	2:45 p.m.	4AA2nd
AA	6	9:50	3:05 p.m.	4AA3rd
AAA	10	10:35	3:50 p.m.	1AAA1st
AAA	12	10:55	4:10 p.m.	1AAA2nd
AAA	2	9:15	2:30 p.m.	1AAA3rd
AAA	9	10:25	3:40 p.m.	2AAA1st
AAA	7	10:05	3:20 p.m.	2AAA2nd
AAA	4	9:35	2:50 p.m.	2AAA3rd
AAA	6	9:55	3:10 p.m.	3AAA1st
AAA	8	10:15	3:30 p.m.	3AAA2nd
AAA	3	9:25	2:40 p.m.	3AAA3rd
AAA	11	10:45	4:00 p.m.	4AAA1st
AAA	1	9:05	2:20 p.m.	4AAA2nd
AAA	5	9:45	3:00 p.m.	4AAA3rd

Jazz Performance Order - No Schools

Class	Performance Order	Marking Time	Performance Time (approx.)	Section Qualifier
A	5	8:20	12:32 p.m.	1A1st
A	2	8:05	12:08 p.m.	1A2nd
A	1	8:00	12:00 p.m.	1A3rd
A	6	8:25	12:40 p.m.	2A1st
A	7	8:30	12:48 p.m.	2A2nd
A	10	8:45	1:12 p.m.	2A3rd
A	3	8:10	12:16 p.m.	3A1st
A	11	8:50	1:20 p.m.	3A2nd
A	8	8:35	12:56 p.m.	3A3rd
A	4	8:15	12:24 p.m.	4A1st
A	12	8:55	1:28 p.m.	4A2nd
A	9	8:40	1:04 p.m.	4A3rd
AA	1	9:00	2:15 p.m.	1AA1st
AA	9	10:20	3:35 p.m.	1AA2nd
AA	8	10:10	3:25 p.m.	1AA3rd
AA	3	9:20	2:35 p.m.	2AA1st
AA	5	9:40	2:55 p.m.	2AA2nd
AA	6	9:50	3:05 p.m.	2AA3rd
AA	12	10:50	4:05 p.m.	3AA1st
AA	2	9:10	2:25 p.m.	3AA2nd
AA	4	9:30	2:45 p.m.	3AA3rd
AA	7	10:00	3:15 p.m.	4AA1st
AA	11	10:40	3:55 p.m.	4AA2nd
AA	10	10:30	3:45 p.m.	4AA3rd
AAA	12	10:55	4:10 p.m.	1AAA1st
AAA	4	9:35	2:50 p.m.	1AAA2nd
AAA	2	9:15	2:30 p.m.	1AAA3rd
AAA	5	9:45	3:00 p.m.	2AAA1st
AAA	10	10:35	3:50 p.m.	2AAA2nd
AAA	1	9:05	2:20 p.m.	2AAA3rd
AAA	7	10:05	3:20 p.m.	3AAA1st
AAA	8	10:15	3:30 p.m.	3AAA2nd
AAA	11	10:45	4:00 p.m.	3AAA3rd
AAA	6	9:55	3:10 p.m.	4AAA1st
AAA	3	9:25	2:40 p.m.	4AAA2nd
AAA	9	10:25	3:40 p.m.	4AAA3rd