For the first time in Spectrum history, Spectrum’s Dance Team and the Boys Basketball Team found a way to mix the two sports and put on an amazing performance at this year’s Winter Pep Fest.

“It’s hard to work together when like maybe one of us is less involved in dancing, so it’s kind of difficult in that aspect, but it’s fun because we never really do like partner things before,” said Aislin Tuckey, a captain for the SSDT and a senior at Spectrum. Tuckey enjoyed her experience dancing with her partner, Sam Ostendorf. Tuckey says that she had fun, and her partner seems to agree. “Yeah, I’d say it’s fun just to do it with her, because I know she likes to do it,” said Ostendorf.

The dancers and the basketball players seemed to have a lot of fun with this performance. The dancers didn’t compete this year, but they enjoyed doing this performance and dancing during half time at basketball games.

The Coach of the Spectrum Dance Team, Haley Friend, brought up the idea of doing a dance with the dancers and the Basketball players. “The whole idea was just to like to collaborate with other sports teams […] just to kind of bring unity to the programs,” said Friend. Friend enjoyed this experience and is willing to do something like this again. “I would maybe try with the basketball team again. I would even, like, see how, like, the wrestlers did it if we did it with them, too. Just, I think it’s a lot of fun, like, even if we did it in the fall, like at the fall Homecoming Pep Fest. We could definitely do it with, like, the football team. It’s really fun just to watch, like, other athletes,” said Friend.

Coach Haley wasn’t the only one that brought this dance to life, one of the dance captains, Aislin Tuckey, helped Friend choreograph the dance. “My thought process was, I just wanted to do a mashup of all the different songs I could think of that had to do with basketball, or like, sports in general,” said Tuckey. “My main input was finding the songs, and then, choreographing it was kind of hard, because it like just cuts from one song to the next, so you have to kind of do moves that go with the song, and then, the beat changes, so you have to switch like the timing of things,” said Tuckey.

Even though Spectrum’s dancers did not compete this year, they still found ways to spread cheer through their dancing as much as they could.