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County Supervisors Applaud Herndon High Step Team
The team won the national championships earlier this year.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors honored the Herndon High School Step Team at its July 30 Board meeting for winning the 2013 Youth Step USA National Championship.
READ: Herndon High Step Team Wins National Championships
The team of 24 boys and girls in grades 9 through 12 beat teams from around the country at the National Championship held in late May in Harrisburg, Penn. to recapture the national title that it also held in 2011.
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The Herndon High Step Team is the only team in the nation to have won the championship twice.
Team coach, Gary Bushrod, who was a member of the team while a student at Herndon High School himself, was also named Coach of the Year. Faculty co-sponsor Kelly Winningham also was a member of the team when she attended Herndon.
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The team participated in seven competitions this year, leading up to the national event, and won first place in six of them.
Stepping is a percussive dance performance in which the participants’ entire body is used as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, singing and handclaps. It is now practiced worldwide, having been originally developed by African American fraternities and sororities in the mid-1900s.
"This is a great accomplishment. The team and Coach Bushrod should be very proud,” said Dranesville Supervisor John Foust. "This outstanding team practiced tirelessly and demonstrated that they are outstanding athletes and competitors.”
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