National champs! Carolina Girls dance team claim title for Gamecocks
A South Carolina sports team is bringing home a national championship.
USC’s dance team, the Carolina Girls, took home first place in Division IA dance team performance at the National Dance Alliance championships on Friday for a historic victory. It’s the first national championship for the team that’s coached by Lindsay Sprague.
The team took to social media to show off its national championship trophy and banner at Daytona Beach, Florida.
The Carolina Girls dance team was established in the fall of 2007. The team had earned top-five finishes nationally in 2019, 2016, 2015 and 2014, finishing second in 2019. Last year’s national collegiate championship was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to competing itself, the dance team also performs at men’s and women’s Gamecock basketball games. This year due to COVID-19 restrictions, those performances were filmed beforehand and shown on the video screen during the game.
This story was originally published April 9, 2021 at 8:41 PM.
