High school dance

deskslave · Jan 22, 2010

HanSenSE said:

rpmmutant said:

HanSenSE said:

If all you have to do is something like "And Podunk High's dance team was second at the Collegetown Cheer Spectacular over the weekend," what's the fuss? Don't think it hurts.
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It starts with one high school drill team. There are six public high schools plus a private Christian high school in the coverage area. Once one team gets some attention, all of them are going to want it. That's what the fuss is about.
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And the problem is? It's local news ... granted, it's for a niche audience, but still news to some in your audience. If your station/paper emphasizes local news and sports, you want lots of calls, e-mails and faxes with results on everything from Friday Night Football to Kelly pool.

One of the cheer squads here sends a little story and a photo when they win a competition, and I have no problem running it. If the other schools want to send photos in, fine with me. If not, that's OK too. It's like any other sport (and for the purpose of this conversation, let's classify cheer/dance as a sport): I run the results I have. If Podunk High calls me with their results, I don't worry if I don't hear from Podunk Tech. In fact, I hope Podunk Tech starts calling me when they see Podunk High scores.
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News to some in the audience? The only people it would be even remotely close to being news to are the people who already know what happened.

Though, admittedly, you could apply the same logic to any high-school sport that isn't football or basketball.

Smallpotatoes · Jan 22, 2010

Stitch said:

Dance team = vocational training for future strippers.
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Like that team that did the "Sluts of Jonesboro" routine last winter?

Stitch · Jan 22, 2010

It always seems the dance team is connected to an owner of a studio who is on the lookout for more cash, I mean students.

HanSenSE · Jan 23, 2010

Hank_Scorpio said:

HanSenSE said:

rpmmutant said:

HanSenSE said:

If all you have to do is something like "And Podunk High's dance team was second at the Collegetown Cheer Spectacular over the weekend," what's the fuss? Don't think it hurts.
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It starts with one high school drill team. There are six public high schools plus a private Christian high school in the coverage area. Once one team gets some attention, all of them are going to want it. That's what the fuss is about.
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And the problem is? It's local news ... granted, it's for a niche audience, but still news to some in your audience. If your station/paper emphasizes local news and sports, you want lots of calls, e-mails and faxes with results on everything from Friday Night Football to Kelly pool.

One of the cheer squads here sends a little story and a photo when they win a competition, and I have no problem running it. If the other schools want to send photos in, fine with me. If not, that's OK too. It's like any other sport (and for the purpose of this conversation, let's classify cheer/dance as a sport): I run the results I have. If Podunk High calls me with their results, I don't worry if I don't hear from Podunk Tech. In fact, I hope Podunk Tech starts calling me when they see Podunk High scores.
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Agreed.

Just make a mention of the local teams and places (and of course the winning team), maybe mention a kid's name if there is an individual finisher and that's that.

It's probably the equivalent of agate in a newspaper. Just a listing of results.

Do you have to do an interview with the winning/local coach? Even then, it's a 30-second sound bite, if that.
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That's exactly how I treat it. In our latest reinvention of ourselves, I started packaging team photos with the rec announcements on Tuesdays. Team photos were something I inherited when I took over here and kept for two reasons: 1) As our city editor (an an ex-sports editor) pointed out, it beats having to run a story about every team; and 2) I didn't want halting them to be part of my obit!

crimsonace · Jan 24, 2010

My rule with cheerleading/dance team/drill team/drumming team/flag corps competitions is to send them all to the school page.

If it's not a recognized sport by the state athletic association or IOC, it doesn't belong on the sports page/report. Put it on the education page with the scholarship winners.

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