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The varsity cheer team huddled together for a picture. This is before their performance at the Regional competition on Saturday Sept. 21.

Cheering across Regionals

Colin Nichols, Co Web Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2024

Junior Lillie Smotherman, an enthusiastic varsity cheerleader performed the bolt, a 360 degree backflip tumbling pass, alongside her cheer team during their regional competition on Saturday, Sept. 21....

The Sensations dance team gets the crowd hype for a football game. The Sensations performed alongside the cheerleaders at many of FHC's football games this past fall.

Sensations’ Success

Abby Myers, Staff Reporter February 8, 2024

Senior Heidi Strauss and her fellow team members feel the excited buzz on the school bus. The bus is headed to Fort Zumwalt North, where the Sensations' last dance competition before state is being held....

Dancing through the Eras

Summer Suarez and Lillian Seithel February 1, 2024

The Sensations held their Taylor Swift Eras Tour dance camp for grades kindergarten through eighth grade. Members of the dance team took different age groups and customized the dances to the specific songs...

Sophomore Bella Brown is lifted into the air by her teammates. This stunt took the cheerleaders a full week to learn, as it is a difficult stunt typically seen on elite co-ed teams due to the strength and balance required.

Bring It On!

Hannah Halterman, Staff Reporter January 8, 2024

Most everyone is familiar with the typical cheerleader stereotype. In most teen movies, the cheerleaders are portrayed as the dumb ones, the shallow ones, the mean ones – or, most commonly, the full...

Junior Sam Mueller shoots the ball as he competes in the 3-point competition. Competing against his other teammates to make the most three’s for his team.

Winter Sports Blast Off

Ava Breuer, Staff Photographer December 11, 2023

  To kick off the 2023-2024 winter sports season, an annual Winter Blast was held to showcase the athletes heading into their new season. All levels of the Sensations and cheerleading gave...

Junior Natti Reise is sprang into action during a cheer appearance.

What A Year For Cheer

Amity Ianiri, Staff Reporter March 14, 2023

The Cheerleading program has been hard at work building a community united in their goal of bolstering school pride throughout the school. From sporting events to cheer appearances, time and dedication...

The student section cringing as the ball misses.

Paint In Pink

Sarah Schmidt, Web Assignments Editor February 16, 2023

On Feb 3. Both of the basketball teams held their annual Pink Out night to raise awareness and money towards cancer. While the girls had a good game, ending with a score of 55-20, the boys ended on a nail...

A dance team member gazes at the audience, taking in her performance so far.

Waiting For The Spotlight

Moth Payne, Staff Reporter January 27, 2023

A loud noise erupts from students in the crowd as they watch the dance team perform their flawless routine. Many days, weeks, and months have gone into this performance, and the hard work is paying off...

Empty Stadium: A mask lies on the turf at Don Muench Memorial Stadium on Friday, Oct. 2, a night that should have been a football game against Fort Zumwalt West played there. Three sports teams- softball, volleyball and football- have had games cancelled due to athletes being placed in quarantine due to Covid-19

Limit:less

Ruthann Kimbrel, Staff Reporter January 22, 2021

The bleachers seemed barren as masked spectators entered and sat in the stands socially distanced and the band sat in windows in the visitors section. Since the 2020-21 school year began, the school has...

Sanya Suri walks confidently to receive her senior night award

Cheer and Dance Senior Night

Rhyen Standridge, Photo Editor September 21, 2020

An emotional night for many teammates on the cheer and dance squad was pushed to the beginning of the season due to fear of the school closing early again. With the date being moved up to Sept. 11, the...

FHC Sensations perform their Jazz routine at Nationals. The girls were hungry and determined to move forward into the competition

Moving Towards State

Ty Nedungadi and Grace Bahru February 28, 2020

“It was the best performance we’ve done by far!” all said by junior sensation dancers Shaffer Brown, Payton Leap, and Sanya Suri. FHC’s Sensations are reflecting over their wonderful performance...

Both JV and Varsity Sensations team is pictured by the track.  They headed to nationals this past Thursday and travelled to Disney World where the competition is held

Performing Against the Nation’s Best

Ty Nedungadi and Grace Bahru February 7, 2020

And they’re on their way! Girls sensations left Thursday, Jan 30 for their biggest competition of the year, nationals. This competition is held at Walt Disney and includes schools across the country,...

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