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here’s no dancing around
petition,” she said.
the fact that Detroit’s dance
Taylor said the Detroit dance
team did quite well at the
team’s preparation for the Maccabi
JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest
Games begins long before the games
last month in Southern
themselves.
ABOVE: Detroit’s
California.
“Our team rehearses for two
Israeli dance group
Detroit’s roster of 13
or more hours each Sunday
was solid gold.
experienced competitive
starting in March and ending
dancers earned medals in
in late July,” she said. “Often,
15 of the competition’s 20
there will be more rehearsals
routines.
beyond the Sunday schedule.
“That was the largest Detroit dance
“Each of our dancers has a strong
team we’ve had in recent years that’s
support system of family members,
traveled to another host city,” said
professionals from the studios
Detroit dance coach Linda Taylor.
where they study dance all year, and
Taylor said word of mouth was
Maccabi alumni.”
a big reason for Detroit’s big dance
Taylor has been the Detroit dance
roster.
team coach for four years, but she
Word of mouth also is a big reason won’t be coaching the team next
why Detroit regularly has four-year
year when the Maccabi Games are
dancers at the Maccabi Games like
hosted by Detroit. She’ll be organiz-
Alex Mison and Haley Whelan, who
ing and running the dance competi-
carried the Detroit delegation ban-
tion.
ner in this year’s Maccabi Games
“We’ll need a couple of Detroit
opening ceremonies.
dance coaches because we should
“Our success every year attracts
have a big Detroit dance team,”
dancers to our team. And the
Taylor said. “I’m hoping several
Maccabi Games are so much fun,”
Detroit dance team alumni will help
Taylor said. “The lifelong friends our me out with the competition.”
girls make at the Maccabi Games is
Taylor’s daughter Melanie Taylor, a
as much if not more important than
former four-year Detroit dancer, has
the dancing.”
been Detroit dance team’s assistant
Most of the girls on this year’s
coach for two years.
Detroit dance team compete out of
For a breakdown of the Detroit
Studio A Walled Lake. Taylor said
dance team’s medal haul at the 2018
Studio A was a big help to her this
Maccabi Games, visit thejewishnews.
year.
com and click on “Community.”
“They were very gracious in letting
us use some of their choreography
FAMILY FIRST
for dances and helping some of
Morgan Leib, who became the first
our girls with their solos, especially
girl to play for the Detroit hockey
those who hadn’t done solos in com- team in the three years hockey has
been a Maccabi Games sport, wasn’t
the only Leib on the team.
Her cousin Jenner Leib also was
on the roster.
Jenner, 13, an eighth-grade stu-
dent at Warner Middle School in
Farmington Hills, has been playing
hockey since he was 3 and now plays
travel hockey.
He was one of the youngest, if not
the youngest member of the Detroit
hockey team, which lost in the quar-
terfinals and fell a victory short of
playing in the medal round. •
Cousins Morgan and Jenner Leib played for
the Detroit hockey team.
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