Sorry for the delay in posts. A small little event of some sort happened last weekend! (ha!). We hope everyone has recovered from Regionals. What an amazing contest! Can we all give a big high five to Directors Patti Mickey & Michele Pangrac for getting over 200 twirlers through all those events and out the door when it was still light outside? I did not think it could be done, but leave it to those two awesome ladies to pull it off. Thanks for a great contest Patti & Michele!
We also have several entry deadlines coming up and more contests on the horizon, but 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 fantastic representation at this event. After seeing some of their wonderful pictures posted on social media, we knew it was blog post time! 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 multiple part post with the next round of twirlers being posted later this month.
Today we get to meet the members of Texas Touch Of Class that attended. This group out of Dallas, lead by mother/daughter team Shirley Payne and Sheila Payne Rigelsky, brought four young ladies to the event this year... K.K. Tunnell, Jenna Bowen, Payton Jones, and Seanna Riglesky!
K.K. Tunnell
K.K., the reigning 2017 Junior Beginner National Pageant Winner, now competes in the Intermediate Senior division. She is most proud of placing third in the Intermediate Senior Miss Twirl Mania Pageant! It was a great first showing in her new division!
- Intermediate Senior Miss Twirl Mania Pageant - 3rd Place
- Novice 16/17 Two Baton - 4th Place
- Intermediate 16/17 X-Strut - 4th Place
- Intermediate 16/17 Solo - 6th Place
- Intermediate 16/17 Best Appearing - 8th Place
Jenna Bowen
Jenna, a long time member of the Texas Touch of Class, competed in the Advanced Pre-Teen division. She is the most proud of placing 2nd in the Advanced Pre-Teen Miss Twirl Mania Pageant!
- Advanced Pre-Teen Miss Twirl Mania Pageant - 2nd Place
- Advanced 12/13 Basic Strut - 2nd Place
- Advanced 12/13 Solo - 3rd Place
- Advanced 12/13 Military Marching - 4th Place
- Advanced 12/13 X-Strut - 5th Place
Payton Jones
Payton, who was so excited to attend Twirl Mania this year, competed in the Intermediate Pre-Teen Division. She is the most proud of placing Top 10 in the Intermediate Pre-Teen Miss Twirl Mania Pageant!
- Intermediate Pre-Teen Miss Twirl Mania Pageant - 9th Place
- Novice 12/13 Two Baton - 7th Place
Seanna Rigelsky
This was Seanna's first time competing at Twirl Mania, and she did amazing! She is the most proud of placing 2nd in the Novice Tiny Tot Miss Twirl Mania Pageant, especially since it was only her second time ever competing in pageant! Wow!
- Novice Tiny Tot Miss Twirl Mania Pageant - 2nd Place
- Novice 0-6 Military Marching - 4th Place
- Novice 0-6 Best Appearing - 6th Place
- Novice 0-6 Basic Strut - 7th Place
- Novice 0-6 Solo - 8th Place
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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