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Show g CHAMPIONS Cloggers West, from Pleasant Grove High won first place in their division and seventh overall at the Festival of Champions, held in Fontana, North Carolina recently. Picture shows the cloggers and inset the trophies won . Cloggers West World Champions in High School Division in North Carolina The Cloggers West organization is barely more than two years old and the young dancers register for the activity ac-tivity as a physical education class. So popular is the class that a second class of beginners was set up this year, and two night classes are taught every Thursday night at the high school, one for junior high age and younger, and one for adults high school age and older. The whole idea was set up under the direction of Mrs. Delores Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, counselor at the high school, and by John Gourley, principal. The dancers are directed by Terry Tucker, choral music director at the high school. Pleasant Grove's own Cloggers, dancing under the name of Cloggers West, recently returned from Fontana, Fon-tana, North Carolina, where they competed in the Festival of Champions, Champ-ions, World Clog Championships. The local group, the only dance troupe invited from west of Indiana, was one of only eighteen clog dance teams to be invited and approved to attend the prestigious contest. The Cloggers were declared world champions in the high school age division, and were invited back to participate with five other champions, cham-pions, runnerups, and the wild card teams in the grand finals. There were eleven teams in all during dur-ing the four-couple team championships, champion-ships, with the Cloggers West amassing amass-ing 355 points, good for a seventh place finish overall. So close was the judging that an average of only four points per judge separated the top seven teams. MrJst of the clog teams were concentrated con-centrated from eastern and southeastern states, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and Indiana. Clogging appears ap-pears to be a form of square dancing which many people associate with the geographic west. However, the clog dance originated in the hills and mountains of southeastern ap-palachia, ap-palachia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains Moun-tains of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. The competition is extremely spirited there and there are many many clog teams from these areas. |
