Here goes...
last year i was First Leut. of my High school drill team...things were looking great for this next year...but then we switched directors...
Keep in mind that as much as i love my first leut position i want captain really bad this next year...so i enroll in this awesome technique class and work on my original solo a couple months before everyone else...and a bunch of the girls on the team tell me that i actually have a good chance at it..
soooooo
...Time for officer auditions came around and our director tells us that one of the officer positions would be eliminated....(and none of our present officers were graduationg) This meaning that one of us would be left on the line...
So the big day finally comes....and i've had an awful time..i almost got in trouble at school for my skirt...my bf and i got in a huge fight....i did really bad on an english test..and i got called back for LINE tryouts...not good..
i completely blow through my solo...did an extra forte so it through me off count..but you know what i did...i just kept going...and even though it wasn't perfect....i thought i still did a darn good job...
they tell us that the results will be posted the next morning....and then much to my suprise...i discover i'm on the line...which really totally sucks completely..i've never worked harder for anything in my whole life and all the time and effort i spent was for absolutely no reason.
but i'm sticking with it.....i mean....today we had our first practice and i think things might be alright....and there's always next year...i hope...
so there ya have it..i just wanted to share and if anyone has any stories they'd like to share i'd love to hear.

dont stop dancing,
Always,
Andi

Wow that's sad to hear. But yes there is always next year and sticking with it regardless is showing excellent dedication, responsibility, and character. Everyone has a rough day now and then and it sounds like it just wasn't your year for officer. Everything happens for a reason somethin spectacular could happen next year so keep your chin up and show the new director you feel your place on the team is just as important to you. Believe me they will notice and respect you.
Speaking of.....what is the officers duty exactly, is being officer a team status thing, or do they have special responsibilities???? Just curious howit works on your team....

Keep up the hard work and show that new director that you're meant to be an officer!!
By the way Andi, are you a dashing deb?
-Erica

I cant really relate exactly BUT somewhat. On my highschool drillteam, I was a new sophomore and everyone would kid around about me being a Jr. lt. Well I tried out and i knew that i wouldnt make it bc i was put on academic probation for 3 weeks and then I just did really bad at my tryout. Well my junior year i pushed myself to make myself a better dancer. Then we had our spring show and everyone came up to me (parents and students) asking me if I was going to tryout for officer, and i said YES OF COURSE! Well then my director told me that she was so happy that i was trying out again and that i had a good chance, well of course I wasnt going to be too confident but it lifted my spirits alittle bit. Well I end up NOT making the position of Sr. Lt. and I WAS FURIOUS! One of the girls that did make it couldnt even do her splits and couldnt do double pirouettes or even fouettes, also she went into her tryout and made up her solo as she went along. Well then the next monday at school, my director told me that she was so sorry, and i just looked at her and told her to not even talk to me, but i had a positive attitude about it and carried on. Then when it came to my last spring show, (my sr. lt. was an airhead and i couldnt stand her) she was never there so i practically made up the whole squad dance for the show, and then when we performed people told me that if they didnt know that my Lt. was the Lt. they wouldve thought that it was me, so it made me feel good! (also when the officers did a show off at our school after tryouts, they got booed at) just always remember that no matter what happens when it comes to positions, as long as you think you are a great dancer, you will bed a great dancer!

No matter if you have a title or not you can always be a leader of the team. My junior year the officer line consist of all juniors since we had no seniors on our team. I was placed as lieutenant which was lowest out of the three officer postions and many of my team mates and fellow officers thought I would recieve a higher rank. I worked hard all year and proved to be a great leader and dancer and the following year one officer was lowered a positon and I recieved captain. So keep being a leader of your team and dancing with all your heart and when officer tryouts roll back around you recieve the postion that you deserve.

well..... my story is i moved to texas 3 years ago and i missed drill team tryouts for my school..... and they put me in dance one which was dumb for them.... anyways my first day of dance class i asked the dance teacher which also was the drill team dirctor if i could help teach of dance in circles around all these people beacuse i had been dancing since i was 2 years old. well she told me that she would ask the principle if there was a chance i could be on the drill team beacuse i was really good she said. so the next day she tells me that i cant be on the drill team and i was really sad...... but she said i coiuld help teach that dance class... then she told me i could be the manager and then the nexted year be on the drill team..... well i got through my first year then i tried out for officer for my senior year and there were 7 girls trying out including me..... so that whole week we worked so hard espesialy me.... by then we had a new director and she didnt like me beacuse i wasnt anarexic but whatever.... so we get to mock tryouts (that is when the director watches us like tryouts ony the team gets to watch too.....) but i did awesome i nailed my solo and my kicks in the officer strut (lets just say i kciked my self in the head for the first time) it was so good... then the next day was tryouts my solo was good just like before. and so were my kicks i didnt kick myself but they were so high. then the judges got together and made there decision..... well about and hour goes by and my director comes in and says that all of our friends have to leave so they can tell us who made it and the way we ell is we dont post anythign up we all stand apart and she hands us balloons to the girls who make it. well sh skipped around and i thougt that i would get it the next time she came around. come to find out that when she said open our eyes i had no balloon.... as crushed as i felt i looked around and found out that everyone else had a balloon all of them but me...... i cried my eyes out for days..... then come to find out someone stole my makeup bag which wouldnt have been so bad if my 400 dollar Class ring was inside!!! then came social officer tryouts and i was going to spirit leader and everyone i knew was going to vote for me... so i thouht i had a really good chance.... well i didnt make that either now that i was the ONLY person on the team that had tried out for both dance and social officer posisions and not made either i wanted to quit and my stupid director who hated me said no no this will be a growing point for u and i dont want u to yeah yeah yeah i thought well histeper and jazz eilite tryouts are coming up and i have a good chance for that... wel i didnt make either i was soooo flippin mad i went up to her and said why did i not make it she said i was soo close bubt no cigar well i figured it was beacuse i was so fat and not as skinny as the others that made beacuse i could do just as much as our captin if not more... so i keep all of my anger insid while i danced for football season and having to be in the back as a senior!! which didnt make anyhting better we had tryouts again for spring show and i wa like ok here we go again well i made high steppers and she told me well we arent going to have jazz elite ttryouts and i said why she said well everyone who is good enough is already on there that made me so mad. nd i wnated to hit her as hard as i could but i held back i told i was quitting. and she told me again no this will make u grow and i said the hell it will... and me being the only person on the team with no demerits.. thats says alot about our captin she had to borow my extra stuff.... well then spring show my director gets me all large and extra large stuff which all fell off so i complained and she said i should be greatful im even in spring show and its a privilage or something gay like that. but anyways im just glad its all over now for college maybe i wunt get screwed over agaain it was jsut high school in junior high i was captin and eveything i have been on drill team for 6 years. wow!!
thanx for listening!