Show Student Jazzes up By Corey Bullock and Matt Baldwin A time out is called or the end of ofa a quarter or half has come at a Jazz game This is generally the time in which people pay ridiculous prices in order to gain weight Yet for Tavia Morgan and 14 other ladies it is time timeto to be a star Tavia is a student attending the Sandy Campus during the morn morn- ing In the afternoon she works at the mall At night she is dancing She is either practicing for an up coming Jazz game or performing at the Jazz games because she is a Jazz Dancer I couldn't believe it when I made it I asked three times to make sure they had read my number and that I had made it Morgan said It all started the night of Aug 17 I decided the night before to tryout tryout try tryout out Morgan said Therefore on Aug 18 Morgan spent all day learning learning learning learn learn- ing different dance routines and performing performing performing per per- forming them in front of judges Then she watched as women were whittled down to 25 Wed dance in front of the judges four at a time and at the end they would say you go and you stay and we did that twice Morgan recalls One thing she never heard was her name and she made it to the final 25 and eventually to the final 15 IS Morgan is a native Utahn who attended Alta High School in Sandy She got her dance start in the grade with the Salt Lake Stars and danced there for four years When t t. t II o I otI I Ja w r AJ 7 r iI 1 1 y w s L- L oJ q iAl A Ay y 4 y r f 44 t tM M 7 w Y 4 4 i J h J. J Tavia Morgan is a Jazz dancer and a full time student she entered high school she continued continued continued contin contin- to dance as a cheerleader her sophomore year Her junior year she went out for the gymnastics team and made it As a senior she reverted back to being a cheerleader As a Jazz Dancer Morgan puts in ina a lot of time practicing and spends time making appearances with the bear and on She will appear on the Billiards World Open sometime sometime sometime some some- time in late February This was a competition were professional billiard billiard billiard bil bil- liard players are teams with the dancers and cheerleaders from different different different differ differ- ent sports teams and they play a game of 9 ball Four Jazz Dancers Ii went and Morgans Morgan's professional partner partner partner part part- ner was wS Nesley OHara Right now she concentrates on dancing school and having fun As Asfor Asfor Asfor for next year I dont don't know if I want to try out next year because the tryouts tryouts tryouts try- try outs were really hard Morgan said |