Captain: Lindsey Lovett
First Lieutenant: Summer Moseley
Lieutenants: Ub Edohoukwa, D'Nee Torrain, Lacey Nitcher, Abby Penprase
Head Line officers: Bryanna Oliphant, Laurel Lesku
Line officers: Liz Moore, Laurel Uko, Katie Westfield, Kendra Bailey, Payton Carbonetto
Congratulations Officers!!!!
The girls of the McKinney High School Marquettes dance team possess two qualities critical to success in any endeavor: talent and a tenacious work ethic. They leveraged both to their advantage recently at the Showtime DFW Area dance competition on February 9th. The Marquettes were among multiple school and studio dance groups that gathered at R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton for the event. The girls earned individual distinctions as well as high marks in a number of group dance categories on their way to claiming the title of Grand Champion in the Large Team Division. Other titles and recognitions include:
Junior Varsity Marquettes
Grand Champions - JV division
Team Sweepstakes
Judges Award
Best Pom, Hip-Hop, and Military Routines
Varsity Marquettes
Grand Champions - Large Team division
Team Sweepstakes
Judges Award
Best Modern, Novelty, Pom, and Hip-Hop Routines
Officer Champion Circle Award
Sweepstakes - Officers
Judges Award - Officers
Best Officer Jazz, Lyrical, and Open
2nd Runner-up Soloist - Summer Moseley
3rd Runner-up Soloist - Abby Penprase
The elite "Illusion" team that is made up of varsity members of the Marquettes, as well as the varsity officers, also attended the MA North Texas Regional Competition this past weekend, February 23 at Liberty High School in Frisco. This particular competition is notorious for being extremely competitive and the Marquettes represented the team and school extremely well. Their titles and recognitions include:
Marquette Varsity Officers
Super Sweepstakes
Best Choreography for Open and Lyrical routines
Best in Class
Marquette Varsity Illusion Team
Super Sweepstakes
Best Choreography for Lyrical, Kick, Hip-Hop and Open routines
High Point Awards for both Open and Hip-Hop routines
Outstanding Technique award
While she is justifiably proud of the way the Marquettes distinguished themselves at both competitions, Neely finds even greater satisfaction in the character her dancers demonstrated in preparing for it. “The members of both teams displayed class and dedication that would make anyone proud,” she says. “This means way more to me than any trophy that they earn.”
The McKinney High School Marquette Officers, under the direction of Mrs. Amy Neely and Mrs. Addrianne Stephens, performed phenomenally at the “Crowd Pleasers” dance officer camp held earlier in June. The camp was extremely competitive with over 41 officer lines in attendance. The McKinney Officers were placed in the top 10 of the 41 officer lines competing. This is the highest honor bestowed at “Crowd Pleasers” officer camp. The Marquette’s wowed the judges and crowd with their home routine. The Officers- Captain Lauren McGee, First Lieutenant Cera Taylor, and Lieutenants Dakota Bertucci, Lauren Umphress, and Lindsey Lovett received blue ribbons with individual blue ribbons awarded to Dakota Bertucci, Lindsey Lovett, Cera Taylor, and Lauren McGee for their effort in advanced dancing. The officers placed in the elite circle and also earned blue ribbons on all evaluations which included Superior Rating and Performance Award for their home routine, Elite Circle of Performers, and Top Ten Scoring Line Officers.
The McKinney Marquette Line Officers attended “Dance Line” officer camp also held earlier in June. The Line Officers represented our team and school extremely well. The Line Officers received a Division I rating, meaning that they received a 90 and above from all judges for all evaluations. Congratulations to Line Officers Laurel Lesku, Kristina Smith, Summer Moseley and Emily Warren for auditioning and being selected to perform with Dance Line, an elite performance group.
Congratulations to all ladies on all of your hard work and dedication. It is going to be an amazing year!
Congratulations to our MHS Marquette elite who competed Feb. 25th at the Marching Auxillary North Texas Regional Competition! They received Super Sweepstakes award and a Choreography Award for jazz, open, lyrical and hip-hop routines- all that they entered. Lindsay Lovett was 2nd runner up in the 9-10 solos against 30+ others. The elite came in second in the elite category behind Plano West. This division included stiff competition such as Lake Highlands and McKinney Boyd. In conclusion, our elite was placed in the Winner’s Circle, 1 of 10 out of the 30 plus teams! Way to represent MHS ladies!
The elite also were able to perform at the MHS Basketball Play-off Game held at the American Airlines Center during the day, inbetween Competition Routines. See Picture Page .
The McKinney Varsity and Junior Varsity Marquette dance teams competed at the Showtime International DFW Area Championship contest in Carrollton on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Among the competition was Plano East High School, Creekview, Byron Nelson High School, Weatherford High School and many others. Both teams represented MHS with exemplary performances.
The Junior Varsity Marquettes received Sweepstakes Awards for their hip hop, jazz and pom routines. They received best in category for their hip hop.
The Varsity Marquettes received Sweepstakes and Judges award for all routines entered. They received Best in Category for their pom, hip hop, novelty, and Jazz.
The Varsity Marquette officers received Sweepstakes and Judges Award for all routines entered. They received Best in Category for their lyrical, open and jazz. The Varsity officers were also placed in the Circle of Champions for officers.
The team was awarded the Applause Award, one of only three given, for their outstanding crowd appeal for their jazz dance.
The Varsity Elite team received both first runner up and Champions within their division with their lyrical and hip hop over Plano East, Weatherford and Grapevine.
Lindsay Lovett was the Junior solo champion of the entire contest. Out of 43 soloist in the Senior division, Lauren McGee received 2nd runner up and our Captain Kaitlyn Dorr received 1st runner up.
Finally the Varsity Marquettes were named Grand Champions of the contest.
The Varsity and Junior Varsity McKinney Marquettes made us proud at the Showtime International competition held in Carrolton on Saturday, December 10, 2011.
The Junior Varsity competed in the pom and hip hop category. They received a first division rating in both routines and received first runner up in the pom category.
Varsity team member Lindsay Lovett was named Junior Kickmaster for the entire contest.
Varsity team member Cera Taylor was named Senior Kickmaster for the entire contest.
The Varsity officers received a first division in their jazz and lyrical routines and best category in the jazz and lyrical.
The Varsity elite group received first overall in the large ensemble competition.
The Varsity team received a first division in Jazz, Novelty, Pom and Hip hop.
The Varsity team also received best in category for Jazz, Novelty, Pom and Hip hop.
The Varsity team won a Sweepstakes award for scoring 90 above on all routines entered.
The Varsity team won a Judges Award for scoring an average of 93 or higher on all routines entered.
The Varsity team won an applause award, one of only 3 given out in the entire contest, for their choreography of their jazz.
Our captain Kaitlyn Dorr, received first runner up in the solo competition out of 23 soloist.
Finally, our Varsity was awarded Grand Champion of the super team division of the entire contest.
The McKinney High School Marquette Officers, under the direction of Mrs. Amy Neely and Mrs. Addrianne Stephens, returned with awards after attending the Crowd Pleasers "Lead Out Loud" Officer Camp from June 15th thru 19th held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW Airport. The Officers came home proud with Trophies for "Superior Home Routine" and "The Gold Elite Award". The Officers also won 3 Blue Ribbons in the evaluations of their Camp Dance, Choreography & Dynamics, and their Chosen Routine in Contemporary Dance.
The Officers also got to take classes and dance with Napoleon & Tabitha Dumo from the hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" which has received Emmy Nominations.
Line Officers also went to a separate camp, Danceline Camp, June 4th thru 7th in Richardson. The Line Officers also did a great job at their camp winning awards for Diligence, Technique, and also a Choreography Award. Kristina Munoz was honored for her high kicks & invited into the Danceline Academy.
The Marquettes represented McKinney High School very well and received the highest honor possible at the Danceline competition this Feb 26th, 2011. With over 21 high schools and 3 studios in competition, the students of MHS cleaned up and made a lasting impression on everyone.
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Marquette Officers for 2012-2013:
Officers
Captain – Lauren McGee
First Lieutenant – Cera Taylor
Lieutenant – Dakota Bertucci
Lieutenant - Lauren Umphress
Lieutenant- Lindsey Lovett
Line Officers
Head Line Officer / over Varsity - Emily Warren
Head Line Officer/ over JV – Summer Moseley
Keonta Booker
Ubong Edohoukwa
Jenna Landry
Laurel Lesku
Liz Moore
Lacey Nitcher
Kristina Smith
Jessica Thomas
Ashleigh Unsted
Marquette Senior Officers were interviewed on MET- McKinney Education Television last Wednesday 1/11/12 and it aired on Thursday 1/12/12. They also displayed pictures of the team from the Christmas Competition. If link doesn't open, use portal below & search for the video by date 1/12/12.
https://vp.mckinneyisd.net/vportal/VideoPlayer.jsp?ccsid=C-403a68d8-34d9-4fdd-b015-c681765a4b2a:1#
McKinney ISDs 24-hour informational news and promotional channel is available on Time Warner Cable Channel 98 or streamed online through our MISD Video Portal. The portal can be accessed at http://vp.mckinneyisd.net
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Thank you Gary Hinkelman for setting up this Shutterfly site for the MHS Marquettes. The Marquette Booster Team truly appreciates the time and energy it took and are grateful to you. Beth Dorr took your vision, expanded it, and ran with it. Now there are endless memories on this site for so many team members and their families to enjoy.
Marquette Officers for 2012-2013:
Officers
Captain – Lauren McGee
First Lieutenant – Cera Taylor
Lieutenant – Dakota Bertucci
Lieutenant - Lauren Umphress
Lieutenant- Lindsey Lovett
Line Officers
Head Line Officer / over Varsity - Emily Warren
Head Line Officer/ over JV – Summer Moseley
Keonta Booker, Ubong Edohoukwa, Jenna Landry, Laurel Lesku, Liz Moore, Lacey Nitcher, Kristina Smith, Jessica Thomas, Ashleigh Unsted
Captain Kaitlyn Dorr received the Senior Honor as being one of 14 students from MHS to receive a MISD Distinquished Student Award.
She was choosen representing Fine Arts for MHS.
Mrs. Neely was her Most Inspirational Teacher and she also was recognized at this awards banquet at Eldorado Country Club on April 26th
Congratulation to the New Marquette Officers for 2011-2012:
Officers
Captain - Kaitlyn Dorr
First Lieutenant - Lauren Bowman
Lieutenant - Camille Hayes
Lieutenant - Jessica Bailey
Lieutenant- Victoria (Tori) Vaughn
Line Officers
Head Line Officer – Lauren McGee
Randi Craft
Kristina Munoz
Dakota Bertucci
Stephanie Quintana
Lauren Umphress
Emily Warren
Evelyn Nabicht
Ubong Edohoukwa
Scholarship Awards granted by the Marquette Booster Team
Scholarship Committee :
The Gussie Nell Davis Scholarship - Jessica Carpenter
The Sapphire Scholarship – Samantha Gage
The Gold Dust Scholarship (2) – Jessica Ruiz
Awards:
Top Five Scores for Marquette Line Tryouts
· Evelyn Nabicht
· Carlee Hatton
· Randi Craft
· Stephanie Quintana
· Tied for Top Score- Tori Vaughn and Jenny Jagours
Miss Tap- Jessica Thomas
Miss Lyrical- Lauren McGee
Miss Jazz- Kylee Flores
Miss Novelty- Meghan Philpy
Senior Cord Honors- these Marquettes earned enough points to garner a cord for graduation
· Samantha Gage
· Kayla Huff
· Jessica Carpenter
· Jessica Ruiz
Miss High Kick- Kaitlyn Dorr
All Star Marquettes- achieved proficiency in advanced elements
· Samantha Gage
· Morgan McCrory
· Jessica Carpenter
· Jessica Ruiz
· Kayla Thompson
· Meghan Philpy
· Kaitlyn Dorr
· Kelsey Kerley
· Lauren McGee
Most outstanding Freshman- Jessica Bailey
Most outstanding Sophomore- Kelly Fry
Most outstanding Junior- Morgan McCrory
Most outstanding Senior- Jessica Carpenter
Most Congenial- Elizabeth Hammonds
Best Dancer- Samantha Gage
Most Dedicated- Kayla Thompson
Gold Dust Award- Jessica Ruiz
Miss Marquette- Jessica Ruiz
Congratulations to the New 2010-2011 Marquette Officers!!!!
Captain- Morgan McCrory
1st Lieutenant- Kayla Thompson
Lieutenant- Meghan Philpy
Lieutenant- Kaitlyn Dorr
Lieutenant- Lauren McGee.
Also Congratulations to:
Head Line Officer- Kylee Flores
Line Officers- Kelly Fry, Kristina Munoz, Jessica Bailey & Jessica Thomas!
The McKinney High School Marquettes competed on Saturday, February 27, 2010 in Rowlett, Texas. The competition was the “Texas Dance Classic” held by American Dance/Drill Team. The Marquettes did an awesome job competing. There were over 40 teams at the contest. The girls have worked very hard over the last few months preparing for this competition with a variety of Lyrical, Jazz and Hip Hop Routines and they came home very proud with the following awards:
· Best in Class Medium Ensemble
· Runner Up Best in Class Team
· Judges Award Hip Hop
· Judges Award Jazz
· Precision Award
· Gussie Nell Davis Award
· Sweepstakes Award
· Best in Class Duet performed by Officer Jessica Ruiz & Captain Samantha Gage
· And also Captain Samantha Gage was the 6th runner up finalist in the Solo Division.
Great Job Marquettes!
Samantha Gage, captain of the McKinney High School Marquettes, was invited to perform with Mike Miller and Associates in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The invitation came after attending the Starmaker’s Officer Camp in June.
There were approximately 600 dancers and 600 cheerleaders from across the nation performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Samantha Gage represented McKinney High School and the Marquettes. Samantha departed from Texas to New York on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and returned the following weekend.
The performers took part in daily rehearsals to prepare for the live TV performance on Thursday morning on NBC. The dancers first walked the parade route and then performed at the end of the route in front of Macy’s Department Store, which was televised. The dancers danced to a space theme and wore futuristic costumes with goggles. Samantha was lucky and was placed in the front of the dance line. So, yes that was her that you watched on your TV screen on Thanksgiving day.
In addition to the rehearsals, parade participants experienced the city with tours such as the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. They attended two shows, the Radio City Music Hall “Christmas Spectacular” featuring the “Rockettes”, and the musical “West Side Story”. They went to Central Park and watched the floats being blown up for the parade. And they also got to go shopping in Times Square.
Leanne Mendez, former director of the MHS Marquettes, was also be there for the event as a staff member with Mike Miller and Associates, and was acting as a guide and chaperone to the performers. Samantha was reunited with her former Marquette director in New York for this exciting event. (Check out Samantha's pictures on the picture page)
Keep an eye out for Marquette Captain Samantha Gage when you turn on your TV on Thanksgiving Day. She will be performing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She will have to share when she gets back, her experiences that she had in New York over the vacation.
Marquettes rocked the crowd at the Pep-Rally on 10/16/09. (See the Video Clip of their Hip-Hop Dance under Pictures). They also helped to keep the Cross Town Rivalry going when they beat the drum. (See Pictures). And they dazzled the crowd again with their half time performance of "That's Entertainment".
MHS Marquettes decorated upstairs C Hall for Homecoming week and the Marquettes won the best hall award. The theme was "Welcome to the Circus".
Thanks to all the girls for their hard work.