[eagleclaw]

This one was decided by 1 POINT. This should be a wake-up call to JC, to get on the stick and stop allowing yourselves to be distracted by others or rattled by a competition. You all have worked like tow heads all year, most of you have been to enough competitions in your lives that it shouldn't be nerves. Yes, I know there were extenuating circumstances beyond your control, but suck it up and do what you gotta do! Clean up those stunt sequences, maintain eye contact, everyone says the words, stop touching down on tumbling you've been doing forever. Stick it. leave no doubt. If you can't do it and make it look easy, then revise it. At State, it will be those things that take you higher than 5th place! Tucks are fine, but fulls are FULLS... you've been told this before! You have the talent and support of your parents, while the 57th is proud of you. Your routine was twice as hard a P-burgs. There is NO COMPARISON. I am not gonna get into a big deal over this. P-burg, you need to hire the right people to get you where you want to be. You need to stop whining and get your house in order. If you wanna win and you don't want it to be close, you've got to be committed to do what it takes. If that means you need a new coach, new attitude, new choreographers, or someone willing to work within KAPOS to know the rules and make them work for you, then so be it. You girls only have a 4 year window of opportunity, being able to look back fondly on things like this is what every squad deserves, instead of always being upset and feeling like the odd man out. Like SF. Look @ how far they have come this year! They remind me of Magoffin last year. South Floyd has earned respect this year and gotten a taste of success. SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS. Those SF girls aren't used to having anything handed to them, they have worked hard and enjoyed the fruits of their labors! I am sorry they didn't show well Saturday, but they know what has to be done and hopefully, they'll do it! JC probably won't have the troubles next year that they had this year, because Miss Sturgill was right and all the puffed up people who forced that situation on her will have to eat crow!(shame on them for getting involved in something of which they had no idea!) Like I said, P-burg, nice effort, but you simply have to have more! You may not like that or want to hear that, but it's true. Sometimes you just have to be 50 times better than everyone else! At least then, there's no being denied and no cause for nerves!