Practice began in the summer for Red Rhythm and on Thursday the drill team will perform its first halftime show of 2022 as the Redhawks open their football season versus Corsicana at Kuykendall Stadium.

“Red Rhythm has utilized every free moment they have been able to give together,” director Nicole Nothe said. “They have prepared at June line camp by learning the choreography and then they came in the month of August and started tackling every part of what they would need to know for a game.” 

Red Rhythm will perform a streamer dance routine which they have been practicing and perfecting ever since school started, keeping the team’s energy high for the first game. 

“You know sometimes it’s hard going into morning practice with it being so early, but I think the team spirit has been pretty high,” Red Rhythm dancer Mason Classe said. “We always have our social officers and our veterans trying to pump everybody up, and the whole atmosphere really gets you ready to work hard.” 

Individually the dancers are working on preparing themselves mentally and physically for the game. 

“Personally it’s just a lot of individual practice, eating right, keeping up with fitness, and mentally preparing knowing it’s going to be a really good game,” captain, senior Hannah Beeler said. “I definitely have a little bit of nerves, because theres a lot that goes into first game, but also just very excited to really live it up with all my fellow drill team members and the band.”

Nothe is confident the team will perform well in the first game due to the strong team spirit and work ethic she has seen. 

“You know there’s lots of parts of a game the dancers need to know,” Nothe said. “I feel that they have really worked together as a team to execute and do what they need to for the first game.”