LHS Varsity Dance Team Takes the Floor to Win 1st Place

The Libertyville High School Varsity Dance Team continues to break new ground, taking first place with their jazz routine in the 2A division in Saturday's Mundelein Invitational and 3rd place with their poms routine in the North Suburban Conference's first dance competition.

This is the 2nd year the team is competing under new a new and evolving IHSA structure. This was the first time dance teams met in a conference competition, which was followed by an invitational competition. LHS competed against 8 other 2A teams to take 3rd in the conference and  against 16 teams in the 2A division to take 1st place.

The team includes:

Co-captains Bethany Chang and Stephanie Uliks, Mary Ahern, Christa Eidson, Abbie Gorman, Sarah Krumm, Lily Liermann, Kristen Luce, Shannon Miller, Katarina Pong, Nina Reiter, Camryn Schmidt, Maddie Sefton, Nikki Westphal, Emiliy Yates, Claire Ziegler, and Kelsey Ziemnisky. The team is coached by LHS math teacher Jaqueline Newman.

The team competes again this Saturday, January 25, at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, against 14 other 2A division schools.