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TIME DIVISION TEAM CATEGORY 8:30 A.M. A-2A Murray Jazz 3A-4A Oconee Hip Hop A-2A Model Jazz 3A-4A East Forsyth Hip Hop A-2A Vidalia Jazz 3A-4A Gilmer Hip Hop A-2A Fannin Co. Jazz 3A-4A Upson Lee Hip Hop 3A-4A Lakeview, FO Hip Hop A-2A North Murray Jazz 3A-4A Pike Co. Hip Hop 3A-4A Cairo Hip Hop A-2A East Jackson Jazz 3A-4A Ringgold Hip Hop 3A-4A Savannah Chr. Hip Hop A-2A Washington Co. Jazz 3A-4A Thomasville High Kick 3A-4A Stephens Co. High Kick A-2A Stilwell Jazz 3A-4A North Oconee Jazz A-2A Barrow Pom 3A-4A Woodland Jazz A-2A King’s Ridge Pom 3A-4A Starr’s Mill Jazz A-2A Fannin Co. Pom 3A-4A Heritage Jazz 3A-4A Seckinger Jazz A-2A Dublin Pom
3A-4A Thomasville Jazz A-2A Stilwell Pom 3A-4A Gilmer Pom 3A-4A Whitewater Pom A-2A East Jackson High Kick 3A-4A West Laurens Pom A-2A KIPP Hip Hop 3A-4A East Forsyth Pom A-2A Murray Hip Hop 3A-4A Gilmer Pom A-2A Model Hip Hop 3A-4A Ringgold Pom A-2A Dublin Hip Hop 3A-4A Stephens Co. Pom A-2A Vidalia Hip Hop 3A-4A Pike Co. Pom A-2A King’s Ridge Hip Hop 3A-4A Oconee Pom A-2A Barrow Hip Hop 3A-4A N. Oconee Pom A-2A N. Murray Hip Hop 3A-4A Starr’s Mill Pom A-2A Washington Hip Hop 3A-4A Seckinger Pom
1:00 P.M. 7A Westlake High Kick 5A-6A Dutchtown Hip Hop 7A Buford Jazz TIME DIVISION TEAM CATEGORY 1:00 P.M. 5A-6A Lakeside Hip Hop 7A Peachtree Ridge Jazz 5A-6A Shiloh Hip Hop 7A Camden Jazz 5A-6A Tri-Cities Hip Hop 7A N. Gwinnett Jazz 5A-6A Creekside Hip Hop 7A Forsyth Central Jazz 5A-6A Allatoona Hip Hop 7A Newton Co. Jazz 5A-6A Banneker Hip Hop 7A Lambert Jazz 5A-6A Jefferson Pom 7A Mill Creek Jazz 5A-6A Northside, WR Pom 7A Lowndes Jazz 5A-6A Lee Co. Pom 7A Mountain View Jazz 5A-6A North Forsyth Pom 7A East Coweta Jazz JUDGES BREAK 7A S. Forsyth Pom 5A-6A McIntosh Pom 7A Carrollton Pom 5A-6A Newnan Pom 7A Denmark Pom 5A-6A Etowah Pom 7A Buford Pom 5A-6A Blessed Trinity High Kick 7A Forsyth Central Pom 5A-6A South Paulding High Kick 7A Mill Creek Pom 5A-6A Allatoona High Kick 7A N. Gwinnett Pom 5A-6A Dutchtown High Kick 7A Lowndes Pom 5A-6A Lakeside Jazz 7A Camden Pom 5A-6A Tri-Cities Jazz 7A Brookwood Hip Hop 5A-6A Northside, WR Jazz 7A Hillgrove Hip Hop JUDGES BREAK 7A Parkview Hip Hop 5A-6A Jefferson Jazz 7A Roswell Hip Hop 7A Mountain View Hip Hop 5A-6A Lee Co. Jazz 7A Denmark Hip Hop 7A Collins Hill Hip Hop 5A-6A Etowah Jazz 7A Westlake Hip Hop 5A-6A Newnan Jazz 7A Lambert Hip Hop 5A-6A McIntosh Jazz 7A Peachtree Ridge Hip Hop 5A-6A Blessed Trinity Jazz 7A Carrollton Hip Hop 7A South Forsyth Hip Hop
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DEFENDING CHAMPS & TALENTED CONTENDERS HIGHLIGHT GHSA DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The GHSA Dance State Championships moved from the Columbus Convention and Trade Center to the Centreplex in Macon for this year’s competition, but you can expect the same level of finely-tuned talent striving for state championships Saturday across the state’s four classes.
Entering the final competition of the season are the defending champions ready to add another trophy to their cases and up-and-coming teams, trying to dethrone the title holders and deliver history to their programs.
The dance state championships will begin with Class A-2A and 3A-4A competing in the morning session and Class 7A and 5A-6A taking the floor for the afternoon session. The Macon Centreplex will be cleared between the first and second sessions and fans need to be ticketed accordingly.
Teams will compete in four events – Hip Hop, Jazz, Pom and High Kick – and each classification (7A, 5A-6A, 3A-4A and A-2A) will have an overall champion and a runner-up. Dance teams can compete as coed or all-girl in genres of Jazz, High Kick, Hip Hop and Pom.
Mill Creek enters as a four-time champion (2019 in Class 6A-7A, 2020-2022 in Class 7A) while Starr’s Mill (Class 3A-4A) has won three previous dance titles in Class 5A-6A. Stilwell Arts enters as the defending champion in Class A-2A and will try for its third title, also winning the championship in 2020. In Class 3A-4A, West Laurens enters the competition trying for the program’s third-straight championship.
Alongside 7A champion Mill Creek, teams like Westlake, Buford, Peachtree Ridge, Camden County, North Gwinnett, Forsyth Central, Newton, Lambert, Lowndes, Mountain View, East Coweta, South Forsyth, Parkview, Roswell, Carrollton, Denmark, Brookwood and Hillgrove will contend.
In Class 5A-6A, defending-champion Starr’s Mill has
departed and the class, packed with talented programs like Dutchtown, Lakeside-DeKalb, Shiloh, Tri-Cities, Creekside, Allatoona, Banneker, Jefferson, Northside-Warner Robins, Lee County, North Forsyth, McIntosh, Newnan, Etowah, Blessed Trinity and South Paulding, is there for the taking.
CROWDED AT THE TOP
West Laurens carries the distinction of the two-time defending champion, but to capture its third-straight 3A-4A title,
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Fort Oglethorpe, Pike County, Cairo, Ringgold, Savannah Christian, Stephens County, North Oconee, Woodland, Heritage, Seckinger, Whitewater, East Forsyth and Gilmer.
In Class A-2A, Stilwell will try for its third title against a field of competitors trying for a state championship including Murray County, Model, Vidalia, Fannin County, North Murray, East Jackson, Washington County, Barrow, King’s Ridge, Dublin and KIPP.
A LOOK BACK
The event began in 2019 as an invitational at Mount ZionJonesboro and completed the 2020 event at Columbus State before becoming an officially sanctioned state championship. The state championships were held at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center in each of the past two seasons before moving to a centralized location in Macon.
Last season, Mill Creek won the Jazz and Pom portions of the competition to win the overall state title in Class 7A with South Forsyth winning the Hip Hop segment to take the runnerup spot. In Class 5A-6A, Starr’s Mill captured the overall 5A-6A title and won the Jazz and Pom segments on the way to victory. Westlake, which won the Hip Hop segment, was runner-up.
In last season’s Class 3A-4A competition, West Laurens won the overall championship with Heritage-Catoosa as the runner-up. Ringgold was named the Hip Hop segment champion, North Oconee won the Jazz segment, Stephens County captured the High Kick event and West Laurens won the Pom competition.
it will have to beat a field of contenders including sitting 5A-6A champion Starr’s Mill and 2021 Class A-2A champion Thomasville. Other teams trying for a state championship include Oconee County, East Forsyth, Gilmer, Upson-Lee, Lakeview-
Stilwell Arts won the overall Class A-2A title last year, placing first in the Jazz and Pom segments. Thomasville, the A-2A runner-up, won the High Kick competition and King’s Ridge captured the Hip Hop segment.
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