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leadership.
“Coming from high school and
having three coaches, it was very dif
ferent,” Kizer said. “I think we did
pretty good [this year], considering. ”
Because all coaching for Club
Sports teams must be done on a vol
unteer basis, the team opted to elect a
captain, someone who would act as
an authority figure within the team,
as well as a coordinator for all team
events. This left the dance routine
choreography up to the team mem
bers themselves.
Carly Spainhower, a senior and
three-year veteran of the team, took
on the responsibilities of captain this
season.
After a stressful and frustrating
year as team leader, Spainhower has
insisted that in the future the group
should elect at least two team mem
bers to do the job. One captain would
make contacts and handle details for
performances and competitions,
while the other would choreograph
the routines. “It’s too much for one
person,” Spainhower said. “It was
too much for me.”
Coaching isn’t the only problem
facing the team. Along with recruit
ment difficulties caused by a lack of
notoriety, the team also faces mone
tary problems.
Because the dance team has one of
the smallest budgets of the 42 Club
Sports teams, most of its money is ob
tained through sponsors and
fundraising, as well as team members
paying from out of their own pockets.
This money goes toward team ex
penses such as costumes for games
and competitions, stereo equipment
and other miscellaneous costs.
The bulk of the fundraising,
though, goes toward funding a trip to
Las Vegas, Nev., for the annual na
tional competition. “If we had more
options and more organization, we
would have been able to pull a lot
more money in,” Kizer said.
Despite growing interest in the
team, the problems with money will
continue to be an issue as long as it re
mains a club sport. Club Sports is fair
ly limited in its overall budget avail
ability because it is funded through
the Erb Memorial Union.
“There are so many clubs and they
can only give out so much money,”
Taft said. “They do as much as they
caii for us.”
Spainhower knows that in order
for her team to truly become success
ful, it needs to acquire a coach and
have the ability to compete on a larger
level. For this to happen, she said, the
dance team would have to be taken
under the wing of the Athletic De
partment.
“Other schools we’ve seen [at na
tionals] have their whole cheerlead
ing squad and dance team perform to
gether,” Spainhower said. “They’re
both completely funded by their ath
letic department, and they root each
other on at all the events.”
The Oregon dancers, however, are
well aware that the possibility of this
happening here is remote because
they do not provide a money-making
opportunity.
Yet, despite the hardships they
face and the lack of notoriety they
possess, the members of the team
continue to work hard for something
they truly enjoy doing.
“We’re people who really know
what we love to do, and we’ll go to ex
treme measures to keep doing it,” Taft
said. “I mean, here we are, practicing
three hours a day, and nobody even
knows we exist.”
While a few members of the Ore
gon team are interested in careers in
dance, most of them are in it for the
sheer fun of it all. “It’s not all work,”
Taft said. “We’re all good friends, too.”
As of now, it is uncertain which
route the dance team will take,
though the team does not have many
options. “Well, hopefully one day
someone in a high place will say,
‘Hey, we’re the University of Oregon,
why don’t we have a dance team?”’
Spainhower said. “Until that hap
pens, the team will never be quite
where we want it to be. ”
For now, hard work and determi
nation will have to do. Kizer said the
most im portant thing is to gain recog
nition because with it comes more
support for the team.
And until the team members can
find somebody willing to coach them,
they’ll continue the struggle on their
own. “There are a lot of forces work
ing against us, but we’ll keep trying to
make a name for ourselves,” Taft said.
As for all the hard work the
dancers put in, the question remains:
Is it worth it?
Like many student athletes, their
answer is yes. The members of the
Oregon dance team appreciate the
stress relief, the sense of accomplish
ment and the opportunity to perform
for crowds.
But, most of all, they do it for fun.
“The most rewarding thing,” Taft
said, “is I get to do what I love most,
and that’s dance.”
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