Team Texas at Twirl Mania Part 2 - Lambert, McBurnett, & Wood

Hello Texas Twirl Fans!

We hope everyone is excited for the upcoming long weekend. Do you have any fun Easter weekend plans? We love seeing all the pics of the twirlers dressed up or posing in the bluebonnets. If you take any cute bluebonnet pictures in twirling costumes, send them our way and we may share them for an upcoming #twirlertuesday post on our Facebook & Instagram accounts!

As we promised last week, today we have the Part 2 of the Team Texas at Twirl Mania posts. Click Here to see Part 1 featuring the ladies from Texas Touch of Class that attended the event. 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! 

Today we get to meet three more young ladies that attended. One from the Mickey's Majorettes and two from the Texas Gems... Kaylynn Lambert, Stephanie McBurnett, and Makayla Wood!

Kaylynn Lambert

Kaylynn, who lives in The Woodlands and is coached by Patti Mickey, competes in the Advanced 14 year old division. She is most proud of winning the Advanced Basic Strut "Mousecar" for the highest Advanced Basic Strut score for all ages, earning a first place in her School Solo, 2nd place in her Advanced Solo, and 3rd place in Advanced Dance Twirl 13-16. Other notable placements included 4th in Advanced X-Strut 14-15, 5th in Miss Photogenic 13-16, 6th place in the Advanced Miss Twirl Mania 14-15 Pageant, 6th place Advanced Best Appearing 14-15, 6th place Advanced Military Strut 14-15, 6th place Advanced 2 Baton 14-15, 11th Advanced 3 Baton 14-15, and 17th Overall Junior Gold Invitational 13-16 (which was an invite only event!). 


Stephanie McBurnett

Stephanie, who lives in San Antonio and is a Texas Gem taught by Major Margaret Mann, competes in the Intermediate 16 division. She is the most proud of placing 5th in the Intermediate 16-18 Miss Twirl Mania Pageant! Stephanie brought home 7 medals and a plaque by placing in the Top 10 of her events. She won her favorite award of Photogenic (which her mom says she practices for daily!) and received a nice Disney Frame! Her favorite part about Twirl Mania though is always getting to spend time with her fellow Texas Twirlers!

Makayla Wood

Makayla, who lives in San Antonio and is a Texas Gem taught by Heather Hayden, competes in the Intermediate 16+ division and attended Twirl Mania for the first time! She is the most proud of finishing Top3 in her Novice 2 Baton, which she achieves while performing with an upper respiratory infection. Other notable placements included 6th place in Auxillary Show, 9th place in High School Solo, and 13th place in Beginner Three Baton!

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.