Abby Hansen is a journalism student at Gilbert Christian High School assigned to cover high school sports for AZPreps365.com

Caroline Thomas has been dancing since she was three years old and does outside of school competitive dance as her main sport. This year Caroline is doing the dance team at the school and loves it. “The team is all really close, and I love Coach Riley and how supportive she is.” Caroline says. 

When asked how COVID-19 affects performances Caroline says “It’s hard when there is no student section because there is no energy. We are performing to a camera, and we have to wear masks.” She then went on to explain how even though the COVID-19 protocols are tough, they still get to perform at every game even with no crowd. 

After being asked what made her want to do the dance team, Caroline said how she had a lot of friends doing it, and she loves the team and her coach. "Everyone puts equal effort in, and we are all close enough to each other. We take and give constructive criticism well with one other. I would definitely do this again,” Caroline says.