About
Us
The Jasper Jazz Drill Team is composed of Sophomore girls from
Jasper High School. Jasper High School is located in Plano, TX. The Jasper Jazz performs
at all home football games for the Jasper Jaguars Sophomore football team. The team also
performs at some basketball games, competitions, events around Plano and their annual
Spring Show. Tryouts for the next
year's team occur in the spring of the Freshman year. Freshman girls can elect to take
Fundamentals of Drill Team to satisfy the Physical Education requirement. This class helps
prepare girls wishing to try out for the following year's team in the Spring. The Freshman
drill team class performs at a basketball game and also choreographs, costumes and
performs a routine with fellow classmates for their class final.
Jasper Jazz Director
Jen Morrow
Jasper Jazz Drill Team Director
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Jen Morrow
was raised in Friendswood, TX, where she started dancing at the
age of 5 and focused strictly on ballet for 8 years. When she was
13, she had the opportunity to study ballet in California with
Zola Dishong and Richard Cammack. During her 8 years in ballet she
landed numerous lead roles in productions such as "The
Nutcracker" and "Sleeping Beauty."
Jen attended Clear Brook High School, where she realized her
passion for drill team. In Jen's first year on drill team as a
sophomore, she auditioned for and made the special elite group
called "Jazz Company," in her junior year she served as
Jr. Lieutenant and as Captain her senior year. At the end of her
senior year, Jen was part of the Starmakers Dance and Performance
Camps staff. There she taught routines, aided in leadership
workshops, technique classes and choreography.
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After graduating
from high school Jen auditioned for and became a World Famous
Kilgore College Rangerette. She was a swingster (elite group) and
then had the honor of serving as Lieutenant her sophomore year.
While a Rangerette, she participated in many special performances
which took them to Ireland for the St. Patrick's Day Parade and
the Lord Mayors Ball, the New Years Cotton Bowl Classic pre-game
and half-time shows, the parade and Texas Black Tie & Boots
Ball for the Presidential inauguration of George W. Bush in 2001,
where they also performed with Lee Greenwood and Mark Chestnut.
Her Rangerette experience also allowed her to perform for
the pre-game and half-time show at the Dallas Cowboy Game on
Thanksgiving Day, with Jessica Simpson and Billy Gilman, More
appearances & performances include the Adolphus Children's
Parade and the Cotton Bowl Classic Hall of Fame.
After Kilgore, Jen attended University of North Texas where she
earned her BS in Kinesiology. She also had the opportunity to work
at Mike Miller and Associates, where she helped coordinate and
assist with choreography for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
dance routines, along with the Cotton Bowl pre-game/half-time
show. While attending North Texas she began to choreograph and
continues to for numerous schools in Texas.
From 2001 - 2006,
she had the privilege to assist the Plano West Sr. High Royales.
Beginning in 2006, Jen has had the honor of choreographing
and judging for the Kilgore Rangerettes.
Jen continues to teach summer drill team camps with Shary E.
Anderson Productions as well as Encore Creative Productions
(co-owned by Lisa Fortenberry & Shelley Wayne).
Jen has her Masters of Arts degree in Dance from Texas Woman’s
University and maintains to explore and develop strategies to
enrich the education of drill teams. It is Jen’s students who
give her the perseverance and inspiration of what drill team is
and can become.
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Jasper Jazz Assistant Director
Kathy Conklin
Jasper Jazz Drill Team Assistant Director
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Kathy started dancing in kindergarten with the jazz/tap combo and fell in love from the beginning. She danced and competed with studios up until high school, when she moved to drill team. Kathy was
an officer and member of the Clark Cougarettes and Plano East Golden Girls. When she went away to college she went back to the classroom with ballet/pointe technique classes. Kathy
didnt major in dance, but she did spend several hours a week in the studio, while at the University of North Texas. Instead, Kathy majored in history and found a love for Latin. After college she completed a MAT in social studies at Texas Woman’s University. Even though she
hasn't spent much time in the studio over the past two years she will occasionally find herself in a yoga studio working to maintain flexibility. |
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Photo courtesy of Shipley's
Photography.
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