Mandatory Dance Competition Conflicts With Prom

JACQUELYN LOI
Staff Writer

Every year, Prom is one of the most highly anticipated high school dances. However, this creates a dilemma for AHS’ dance members, who are required to compete at the 47th annual Miss Dance Drill Team USA, which will be held on April 5, the same day as Prom.

“Our main purpose of going to Miss Drill is competing and hopefully winning first or highpoint to get a banner back to Alhambra. What is also important is because Miss Drill was a competition created by [our last adviser’s mother] Ms. Crawford […], so competing and winning would honor the Alhambra and Miss Drill connection,” All Male captain Raymond Tran said.

Every year, Miss Dance Drill Team USA hosts the USA Nationals & Pageant. The winners go on to represent the United States at Miss Dance Drill Team International. This competition will be the last one of the dance teams’ season.

“I honestly am really disappointed, […] but […] I would rather be competing at Miss Drill with my All Male brothers. I’m still going to miss not going to Prom, but this incident made me realize what I truly hold more important to me. As a four-year member and captain, it’s my responsibility to show […] All Male the importance of Miss Drill,” Tran said.

Despite this conflict, Prom cannot be rescheduled to accommodate the dance teams.

“[Junior Council] would definitely change the date of Prom if we could but sadly, we can’t. […] We were not able to choose what day Prom would take place, ” Junior Council member Felice Gonzales said.

While the dance teams may not be able to dance at their Prom, they will dance to represent AHS at the Miss Dance Drill Team USA Nationals & Pageant.