Melody Norman

The Golduster team host a annual dance clinic to encourage young people to consider joining the team in the future, and inspire a love for dance. The new director Amanda Nobles continued the tradition of the annual clinic for the future dance team members. Every game the Goldusters perform and thousands of people come out and watch them including the young girls and boys who inspire to make the team.

  “To attend the clinic there is a form you have to fill out with the first and last name of the child, address, grade any allergies, name of the parent/guardian and emergency contact information, and their shirt size,”Melin Montemayor said.

There are many people that help out with the clinic every year including the parents of the Goldusters. The parents put together bags full of snacks for the kids, and help decorate the Amp,” Montemayor said.

  Not only do the parents help out with the clinic there are also sponsors including Target, eReality network, and my kids dentistry.

  The clinic was held on October 26 and starts bright and early at 8:00AM and ends at 1:00PM in the afternoon in the AMP(Agriculture Multi-purpose).The team made sure there were signs placed in the direction of where the AMP is located.

  “When walking into the clinic the girls are split up into 4 groups by grade level, the first group is Pre-K through Second grade, the second group is Third through Fifth grade, third group is Sixth through Eighth and lastly the high schoolers,” Montemayor said.

  They all do an individual dance in their four groups and then they all combine and learn a half time performance for the November first game.

  “Since the first clinic we have definitely come along way, with more dances, and all-around new ideas,’’ Montemayor said.

  The clinic has on average over 100 girls that attend each year“The purpose of the clinic is to give back to the community and help girls find their passion for dance the way I found my passion and to show what it is like to perform on the field,” Montemayor said.

The team consists of 43 members who were assigned to distribute sign up forms to friends and relatives.

“Performing brings me so much bliss I don’t think I could get it from anything else,” Isabella Benavidez said.

  She shared the clinic was a fun occasion as well.

“Little kid clinic is so fun. I was with the older kids this year so I didn’t get to hang around the babies as much but performing on the field with them is always such a fun time.”