Sorry for the delay in posts. The past few weeks have been contest filled, so look forward to several contest follow up posts coming up soon. In the meantime, we wanted to take a couple posts to talk about Texas Twirlers traveling around the country to represent our State.
The Annual Twirl Mania International Competition was held over President's Day Weekend in mid-February. Texas had some wonderful representation at this event. After seeing some of their wonderful pictures posted on social media, we knew we had to do a blog post about them! As a note, there were too many awesome Texas twirlers at Twirl Mania to fit them all in one post, so this feature will be a two-part post with the second round of twirlers being posted next week.
Today we get to meet four young ladies that traveled to Orlando, FL to experience Twirl Mania together... Kaylynn Lambert, Callyn Marvell, Stephanie McBurnett, and Madeline Wood! These four twirlers did an amazing job bringing home quite a collection of Top 10 placements, medals, and trophies. Congrats ladies! Texas is so proud of you!
Kaylynn Lambert
Kaylynn is from Corpus Christi and is a member of the Texas Stingerettes. She is coached by Nancy Einsehower, Kim Berger, and Keely Davis. Kaylynn competes in the Junior Advanced division in Solo, X-Strut, and Dance Twirl events. She is the most proud of placing Top 3 in her Advanced Dance Twirl as it was difficult group of competitors and she had a great performance.
- 1st in School Solo
- 3rd in Beginner Freestyle
- 3rd in Advanced Dance Twirl
- 4th in Advanced Miss Twirl Mania X-Strut
- 6th in Intermediate 2-Baton
- 8th in Beginner 3-Baton
- 8th in Advanced Solo
Callyn Marvell
Callyn is from San Antonio and is a member ofthe Texas Gems. She is coached by Melinda Mann White and is currently the Feature Twirler for Clark High School (Go Cougars!). Callyn competes in the Intermediate Junior division, but due to the difference in the Twirl Mania age cut-off, she competed in the 16 year old division. Her favorite placement was her Advanced Basic Strut placement because she came in higher than well known twirler Joel Claudio. She was so excited about this because, in her words, "He is so good!"
- 5th in Beginner Freestyle
- 7th in Advanced Basic Strut
- 5th in Advanced Military
- 8th in School Solo
- 10th in the Beginner High School Classic
Stephanie McBurnett
Stephanie is from San Antonio and is a member of the Texas Gems. She is coached by Major Margaret Mann and is currently the Feature Twirler for Winston Churchill High School (Go Chargers!). Stephanie competes in the Beginner Junior division in Solo and the Intermediate Junior division for X-Strut. Her favorite placement was 2nd place in the Freestyle event because she "worked so hard on that routine and the blending of dancing and twirling made it so much fun!"
- 5th in the Beginner Junior Miss Twirl Mania Pageant
- 2nd in Beginner Freestyle
- 2nd in Beginner Military Strut
- 4th in Advanced Basic Strut
- 4th in Most Photogenic
- 7th in Best Appearing
- 9th in Intermediate X-Strut
- 9th in School Solo
- 9th in Beginner Dance Twirl Solo
- 9th in the High School Classic
Madeline Wood
Madeline Wood is from San Antonio and is a member of the Alamo City Strutters. She is coached by Pat Montgomery and is currently the Feature Twirler for Brandeis High School (Go Broncos!). Madeline competes in the Advanced Junior division. She says she had a great time at Twirl Mania and was so proud of placing Top 3 in her Miss Twirl Mania Pageant!
- 3rd in the Miss Twirl Mania Pageant
- 2nd in Intermediate 2-Baton
- 2nd in Advanced Solo
We hope you have enjoyed this blog post. We are always looking for great new stories about Texas twirlers. Do you have an idea or some information we could use to help highlight our sport? Contact us at texastwirlcontact@gmail.com and we would love to hear more about it.
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