Swing Team

As many of you know, Mark and I met swing dancing.  We still dance, and with the beginning of the school year, we are coaching a team again.  Mark was coaching a team when we met, and has been ever since.  This will be the fifth team he has coached, and my third.  Last year, we coached the competition team for USU (Swingcopation), and our team took 2nd place at the Intercollegiate Swing Battle.  Because of my pregnancy and the pending new life of parenthood, we decided to step down and coach the performing team (Swing Set) again.  After a summer of completely nothing to do, it is refreshing for me to have some responsibility.  This year, however, coaching feels really different.  Several of my dancers are freshman, and I don't really have too much in common with them.  I am 5 years older than them, graduated, married, and about to have a kid.  Regardless of these differences in life, I am quite excited to be teaching again and to see what we can get out of these dancers.  Even though dancing hurts my big, pregnant belly, I'm excited to actually be doing something with my life again.