Kennedy Dance Team

Kennedy Varsity Dance Team is a group of twenty high achieving academic leaders and dancers that attend Kennedy High School. All of these girls strive for excellence, so along with that they are some of Kennedy's hardest workers.
The girls practice and compete all year round; starting in May of the year before and go all the way through March. They have two competition dances they learn in May and those are their main dances that they work on and precisely clean and take to competition; but they also learn probably close to at least twenty five more dances through out the year. The team dances at football games, basketball games, pep assemblies and compete locally and in other states as well.
Most of the girls are some of Kennedy's best and brightest, ranking at the tops of their classes. They have won the highest GPA out of Kennedy's girls athletics in 2014 along with the highest GPA out of all of the high school dance teams in the state of Iowa, which is over two hundred and seventy teams. Not only do these girls get good grades in the class room, but they also score high at competitions. The Kennedy Dance Team was regional champions in Pom and Jazz in the 2014-2015 regional dance competition, and gets a bid to nationals every single year.
Another impressing thing about these dance team girls is that a majority of them are also involved in other sports, and clubs at Kennedy and do club sport activities outside of school. Not only are these girls very involved in their school, they also do a lot of things out in the community. A number of the girls participate in America Reads day at surrounding elementary schools, and the team has help motivate the Ragbrai riders this summer. A favorite of many is the kid's clinics that they hold for kindergarten through fifth grade. They teach them a dance, give them pizza, and at the end of the night have a performance to show their parents all they have learned during that fun filled night.
The girls are always giving back and representing their school in the best of ways and still little to none come to support them at their local competitions. That doesn't seem to stop them, for the past few years they have dominated the more local dance competitions, even without support and motivation from their peers. Hopefully in the future Kennedy's Jungle will be spotted cheering for them too.