...a new year & new beginnings...

Hello Cute Girls!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I sure hope you have had a wonderful break and I also hope that you have missed drill and are so ready to come back!! I am not sure if you girlies realize that we only have:

• 13 days until Clearfield
• 20 days until Murray
• 27 days until REGION
• 41 days until STATE

Where did the time go? I am so ready to get going again. I am SO PROUD of the job that you did at Jordan and WE CAN ONLY GO UP FROM HERE. All of the judges (besides that one crazy one that ranked us last in EVERY SINGLE ROUTINE) loved your routines. This is the first time in my coaching career where I wasn't told to change sections or fix certain parts. We were only told to CLEAN STUFF UP AND ATTACK EVERY MOVEMENT WE DO!! That is pretty dang cool!! We scored almost full points in everything, BUT execution and once we clean stuff up that will go up. So I want all of you to be prepared to come to practice ready to clean, clean, clean...I know our favorite, but it will be so awesome when stuff looks and feels AMAZING!!! Here is the low down for the next month and a half. We will still get a calendar out but we know how busy January will get...this is the Drill Team month!! You have to remember to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF: VITAMINS, SLEEP, GOOD HEALTHY FOOD, WATER, WASH YOUR HANDS, ETC. IT IS GOING TO BE BUSY!!!

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE NEXT LITTLE WHILE

Christmas Break Practices:

• Wednesday December 29 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. **PLEASE BRING A BASEBALL HAT and Running Shoes**
• Thursday December 30 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. **PLEASE BRING A BASEBALL HAT and Running Shoes**
• Friday December 31 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. **PLEASE BRING A BASEBALL HAT and Running Shoes**

**Note: If we get things done I will let you out early**

Basketball Halftimes:

**All halftimes are full make-up (no eyelashes) and a low LEFT PARTED ponytail**

• Thursday December 30 OFFICERS ROUTINE call time READY 6:30 p.m. Boys Game against Salem Hills
• Thursday January 6 DANCE ROUTINE (everyone must be there) READY 6:30 p.m. Girls Game against Judge
• Tuesday January 18 MILITARY ROUTINE READY 6:30 p.m. Girls Game against Bear River
• Friday January 28 KICK ROUTINE READY 6:30 p.m. Boys Game against Grantsville
• Tuesday Feb 1 WHATEVER ROUTINE WE NEED TO DO BEFORE STATE Be READY 6:30 p.m. Girls Game against Morgan
• Wednesday Feb 9 TBD Be READY 6:30 p.m. Boys Game against Morgan

We have a game before our competitions to make sure we are ready. The routines are subject to change but the main 3 are all scheduled before State. Can you believe we are already here?? We will also perform at B-Ball Play Off Games:) And the week of Region we will have a party and will attend a Mass...xoxo Will let you know dates ASAP

Miss Drill Utah Fundraiser

• Thursday Feb. 10
• Friday Feb. 11

Then practices will be random and then we will prepare for NATIONALS!! THE FIRST DRILL TEAM AT JUAN DIEGO TO GO TO NATIONALS!! WOOT WOOT

ON TO THE NEW YEAR...

I love the new year...I love the feeling of having a new beginning. We will be doing a lot of goal setting this upcoming week and I hope to have you stay true to all of the goals that you are setting both on a personal level and on a team level. This is our time ladies...we must come together, be one, and CONQUER!! So please be thinking of goals you want to set for yourself. I am going to briefly go over each routine and what we MUST accomplish!! I know that we can do this ladies...not lets just get our on the gym floor and prove it to everyone especially OURSELVES!!

OFFICERS:

• Great Job!!! We just need to keep running this one. So excited for you girls!!

HIP HOP:

• Stay thug
• Stay tight
• Just keep running it

MILITARY:

• CONFIDENCE!!! YOU ALL NEED TO LEARN THAT YOU CAN DO THIS ROUTINE!!
• Fast Arms both Begin & End
• Headstands
• KICKLINE
• Slow Section After
• Slow Headstand Section

**They really loved this routine. We just need to be matching on our fast arms, largest amount of comments were towards the kickline, and that you cute, amazing girls looked sacred on the floor...STUFF WE CAN EASILY FIX**

DANCE:

• Triple
• Side Leaps
• Pique Section (Formation/Technique)
• Triangle Section
• Fouette Section
• Fast Leap/Toe Roll Section
• End

**They LOVED the routine, we just have to clean it up**

KICK:

• BIGGEST COMPLAINT...DRUM ROLL PLEASE...We need to LIFT HIGHER with the hats. Hence why you need to bring a baseball hat to practice now
• Matching Kicks
• Dance Section

**They LOVED this routine...biggest complaint was lifting on the hats**

I am so incredibly proud of this team!! I will tell you that until I am blue in the face. You did such an AMAZING job at Jordan. That was a very hard competition and I am so excited that 3A has brought it this year. It makes the journey much for more fun!! I am so excited to see what 2011 has in store for all of us!! Lets make some incredible memories!! A blink of eye ladies and this will all be behind us...we are already so close to Region and State!! Can you believe that!!! Lets do this ladies and please remember this:

‎"Go out and grasp the seconds of the day as if you had only that day to live. EXPERIENCE & ENJOY the moments of your life. We only have one life to live

SO LIVE IT LIKE A CHAMPION!"

Let me know you read this entire thing by telling me how many Boys Halftimes we have coming up and how many Girls Halftimes we have coming up? AND What do you need to bring to practice? :)

IGNITE THE LIGHT & LET IT SHINE!!!

XOXO-Meg

...you shall not walk alone...

HERE WE GO...can you believe it is here?? Alrighty so here is what you are wearing on Saturday!!

MEETING AT JUAN DIEGO @ 5:45 A.M. car pool to Jordan High School. Saturday Morning

• Hair must be done. We want to look professional. Please make sure that your hair is SLICKED and pretty much perfecto:) Bump your bangs (no fly aways), 1st slick ponytail from the end of your eye brow, 2nd slick from the top of your ears, 3rd slick from the bottom of your ears, into a low RIGHT side ponytail and then bun your hair (HAIR NET). MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR HAIR PIECE. It would be FABULOUS if that was in. Safety pin it to your ponytail. Make sure it is hidden. Take random strands and bobby pin to make the bun look messy:) MAKE SURE YOUR HAIR IS SO SHINY BECAUSE IT IS SO SLICK!!! PROFESSIONAL KIDDOS.
• Make sure you have all of your make-up. Eye lashes, etc.
• Bobby Pins
• Safety Pins
• Hairspray, etc.
• Double check your bag a 100 times!!
• Clip your fingernails NO WHITE showing
• Come to the Solo Comp with your nails clipped and NO NAIL POLISH so we can paint them unless you have Black Nail polish and can paint them before, but NO NAILS can be showing when you hold your hands up.
• Solo Competition begins at 5:00 please be there ready to support our team members and others as well. Please wear your Warm-Up Jacket. I am not sure if you have to pay or not. As soon as C.C. is finished you go home and GO TO BED!!

What to wear the day of the comp:

• Warm-Up Pants
• Shoes that can get wet (UGGS, etc) DON'T FORGET YOUR TOMS though
• Football Jersey (white shirt underneath)
• FIREWORKS sweatshirt
• Warm-Up Jacket
• DON'T FORGET TO PACK YOUR REINDEER ANTLERS:) WE WILL WEAR THEM AT AWARDS

Competition:

• Cell Phones will be left in the room when we go and watch. Focus is YOU and nobody else!!:)
• SPORTSMANSHIP...whatever the outcome WE ARE HAPPY, NICE, AND PROUD!! remember the power of a face!!!
• cheer for everyone
• above all HAVE THE GREATEST TIME EVER!!

xoxo let me know you read this!!

Meg

...the time is near...

You have moved mountains so far ladies! Please continue to push yourself past the sky!!

The Sky is NOT THE LIMIT...I know you can push past it:)

...IGNITE THE LIGHT...

...OWN THE NIGHT...

...COME ON SHOW THEM WHAT YOUR WORTH...

Please practice the following for next week:)

Hip Hop- Get that inner G out:) What are your names again??:)

Dance: Know the entire routine:), Triple, Box Turns, Fouette, and the end:) Getting through the routine without wanting to kill over:) PERFORMANCE

Kick: Changed in the long kick line and double line, my cuties that go over the stomachs do your heads now. Pointed feet and sharpness...PERFORMANCE

Military: Dead man's fall section, my cuties that split and do the transition go over your new stuff, new kick line, new section of clapping before ripple in kick line, and new fast arms at the end. Work your headstand section shoot out 1 in 5... snapping those fast kicks INTIMIDATION, SHARPNESS:)

love your guts!! Let's be the best we can possible be and use these competitions are growth and stepping stones towards region, state, and nationals!! GO ROCK my little fireworks. Please practice and please rest this weekend...it is YOUR TIME next week!!

LET ME KNOW YOU READ THIS PLEASE:)

xoxo

Meg

...your original, cannot be replaced...

SL-

YOU ROCK!! Dance is a technical, endurance, red face routine and you are doing a great job!! Please practice and keep it up!! It is only December think of how far you will come by January 22?? YOU ARE DOING AWESOME!!! xoxo

The videos are up on YouTube please practice:) Just take a look at the difference from State last year to what you are doing now...

Military Last year...You looked so good!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5SnZ6a2Oc


Dance Last Year...so cute...you rocked it!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ACs8RVwnQ

Kick Last Year...you were awesome!! We started a tradition with our kicks this year!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpul9UmcvFI

Now...with the addition of some AMAZING members...your heart, soul, dedication. We stepped it up HUGE this year. Dances are way harder, faster, stronger, and just awesome!! YOU CAN DO THIS. Please practice!!!:) xoxo

Military this year...holy crap!!! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9E4x06D5c

Dance this year...oh yes...need i say more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTm_X_ZHbc

Kick...we rock and people are talking about us!!!:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImRdMmiEhs

Officers PLEASE PRACTICE...your videos are up too. Sorry we didn't run it today we will tomorrow:)

To SilverLine Girls!

Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July

Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what your worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby you're a firework
Come on slet your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gunna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own

xoxo

Meg

...a team that can't be beat won't be beat...

SilverLine

We are 2 weeks away from the beginning of our Competition Season. Can you believe it is already here? This team has taught me so much already and I hope that you are also learning many things on this journey: I hope you are learning the importance of teamwork, dedication, heart, soul, and above all love and respect for one another. It is ok to have up's and down's and bumpy roads, it is what you do after that is important. Always remember we can't go through life alone and it is important to ask for help. Always stay positive!! Never walk away from a situation wishing you would have handled it differently. The next 2 weeks will be challenging and oh so much FUN!! Stay in the PROCESS, don't get frustrated, and learn. Step back and watch your team and be so very proud of where you started, where you are right now, and where you are going to go...this Journey is OURS...THE TIME IS OURS.

I don't care about the outcome or how many trophies we get, I care about the experience, being prepared, being dedicated, being respectful of all, being kind, and YOU DANCING WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE WITH YOUR ENTIRE SOUL AND YOUR WHOLE HEART. That is what I care about...I believe in every single one of you...I believe that you can accomplish ANYTHING that you want to accomplish. I will support your dreams and wishes and I will ALWAYS BE HERE FOR YOU!!!

Please watch this video...It is a Pre-Game Prayer that Nebraska does and I am kind of loving it...I have an idea for a Pre-Competition thing that we will start Christmas Party Night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n2UMxbxha8&feature=related

Dear Lord, in the battle that goes on through life,

I ask but a field that is fair,

A chance that is equal with all in the strife,

A courage to strive and to dare:

And if I should win, let it be by the code

With my faith and my honor held high;

And if I should lose, let me stand by the road

And cheer as the winners go by.

So as we embark on the next 2 weeks lets keep our hearts and minds pure and be ready to push ourselves in life, in drill, and in school!! Here is an outlook of the next 2 weeks. I want you to be mentally and physically prepared as best as possible!!

Monday- Finish Dance (please come knowing movements and with lots of ENERGY)

Tuesday- Run Everything by 6:30 a.m. Start going through Military and getting through all of the small changes I want to make.

Wednesday- Run Everything by 6:30 a.m. 6:30 a.m.-7:00 a.m. Start going through Kick. 7:00-7:30 going over Triple, Box Turns, and Fouette Turns. Please don't get frustrated or think too hard...just do:)

Thursday- Run Everything by 6:30 a.m. Continue in Military if necessary and Continue on in Kick

Friday- Run Everything by 6:30 a.m. See where we need work:

Monday-Friday Of Following week run everything...build confidence and love the process:)

Text me so I know you read this by answering:

Are your ready to Ignite the Light of the SilverLine Drill Team???

xoxo to the moon and back!!

Meg

...go away snow...

Ok...

After talking with Jenni we are not comfortable with you girlies driving in this weather. I am really sad about this in a big way, but we are canceling practice for tomorrow. YOU must be prepared for Tuesday's practice. I am begging that you PRACTICE and practice a lot to make up for tomorrow.

Here is the thing: we have to finish Dance this week. If we don't finish it this week we will have to do an early morning Saturday practice. I am sorry about that, but we need to be prepared in all areas and have dance complete.

Your safety is too important to us and that is why we are not comfortable with you driving...this is much worse than last week (I would have had you practice last Wednesday...haha just sayin') but it is supposed to snow all night so and we haven't seen this much snow in a LONG time. So please PROMISE me you will practice on your own and A LOT.

Text me letting me know you got this and also please read the post previous to this one that I wrote about this morning:) Text me telling me YOUR BIGGEST PROMISE IN THE WORLD THAT YOU WILL PRACTICE AND BE PREPARED FOR TUESDAY PRACTICE AND EVERY PRACTICE FROM HERE ON OUT!!

xoxo to the moon and back

...this team...

Hello Cutest Team EVER!!!

Some quick team items:

1. I hope you have practiced A LOT!! Please remember your sign off sheet and bring it signed on TUESDAY MORNING

2. Please bring your National Payment to me on TUESDAY

3. Please bring your Chili's fundraiser money on TUESDAY. I hope you have not lost those cards because those are worth money and if they are lost or not accounted for we will be paying for that out of our account...we cant afford that!!


TONS of stuff due on TUESDAY...don't FORGET IT PRETTY PLEASE!!!

Now...WELCOME BACK, I hope you are refreshed and ready to begin!!!!

THIS IS YOUR TIME!! It is time for competition to officially begin. Monday morning will mark the beginning of EVERYTHING we are working for! All of your sweat, blood, and tears is coming down to these moments...ARE YOU READY??? I can't believe that we are finally here...we were just standing in rain about to debut ourselves at the football game and now we are preparing for competition season!!

I know you can do this...you better know you can do this. It is going to be a tuff competition season everyone is working so hard!! Our practices will determine the difference between us and them!!

We HAVE to get dance done this week. So prepare yourself to be running everything and working on dance. Then we will have 2 week of fixing thins (i have small changes in each routine) and getting ourselves comfortable for the Jordan Competition.

Please work your very hardest...it will make it all very much worth it!! Love your guts, can't wait to start this competition journey with all of you!!

Please respond to me with the following answers:
1. What is the difference between us and our opponents?
2. How many Chili's tickets have you sold?
3. Can you believe we are competing in 15 practices??

xoxo-Meg