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Dancers get injured a lot too. Athletic trainer Noelle Kaminiski said, “the first thing I think of when you say, ‘common injury in dancers’ is an injury called ‘Os Trigonum fracture’.”

“There is a process on the end of your Talus bone in your foot, and due to the amount of stress dancers put on their feet when they are on pointe, it can chip off that bone and cause a fracture. It is not a fun injury, and it takes

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Dancers have to stay very flexible to hit most jumps, leaps, tricks and even turns. It is a full body effort to keep your body stable while also executing such hard moves.

Dance is considered a sport in many places including here at Holt high school,where dance is a varsity sport. This past season the Holt Varsity Dance Team scored the best they have ever scored, placing in the top 5 at most of their competitions.

There are many things that make dance just as much of a sport as football and basketball. Dance requires the same amount of training, drive, effort, and dedication as any other sport as well as life-long skills, bonds, and memories athletes make.

The MHSAA (Michigan High School Athletic Association) is considering adding dance as a sport in the upcoming years.

I think that dance becoming a sport would finally give dance this recognition in Michigan, and hopefully more states make this move in the future to show others that dance truly is a sport.