Jetsetters Head to Sheridan


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PHOTOS by ROBB QUICCI

Red and Blue staff report

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Members of the Jetsetters, the Alliance High show choir, will spend St. Patrick’s Day competing at Sheridan High in Thornville.

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This follows the North Coast Show Choir competition Feb. 24, where senior Char’Metria Threats was named Outstanding Performer.

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The Jetsetters gave fellow students a preview of their show during a dress rehearsal. The show includes:  “Big Time;” “I’m a Star” with soloist Kiera Hairston; “The Distance You Have Come” with soloist Char’Metria Threats; “Disconnected” with trio Phoebe Jackson, Braijon Clayton and Destini Howard, and “Break My Stride.”

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The show choir has had a successful season so far, earning Class B Champion, best vocals and best choreography in Class B, and fourth runner-up overall in the Nov. 4  Ada Music Fest Show Choir Competition. DeSean Hollins was named Outstanding Performer that weekend.

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At the Findlay Fest Show Choir Competition on Jan. 27, the Jetsetters were fifth runners-up in the Small Mixed Division and Char'Metria Threats was named Outstanding Performer.

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Jakc Shields, Phoebe Jackson and Devin Thompson have been in Jetsetters throughout their high school careers.

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“It’s a close-knit group, and it’s gotten me closer to people I wouldn’t know otherwise,” Shields said. “It’s something I can do with friends, both competing and representing my school.”

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“It’s one of my favorite things in high school. I look forward to class every day,” Thompson said.

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He feels he has improved in “my dancing - by far - my facial energy, my energy overall, and my ability to hit moves” in his four years with the group.

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Jackson said she had admired the Jetsetters since seeing her older sister Samantha perform with them.

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“I love the group, I love Ms. Chunat,” she said. “It’s my favorite thing I’ve done in high school.”

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She said she is hoping to join a similar group that is forming at Ohio University when she becomes a student there.

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Jackson and the others are looking forward to the March 17 competition, which is mostly for small high schools.

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“I think we will look pretty good,” she said. “I hope we can take first.”

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Shields said they are also looking forward to Alliance High hosting a competition next year.

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“We’re all really excited about that, even though some of us won’t be here,” he said.