The Last Dance

Emma Schwickerath made it through her fifth Dance Showcase Saturday night but not without a few — OK, maybe a lot — tears.“It’s always hard for me, especially because I know this is the last time the seniors will dance with us,” the New Hampton dance team coach said. “So before we go out with the seniors, I have my moment with the team and cry it out. It doesn’t mean I won’t cry out there, but a least I won’t be babbling.”And the coach isn’t the only one who cries every year at the Dance Showcase; so, too, do the seniors.“It was emotional,” dance team captain Jenna Murray said Sunday, the day after she danced for the last time as a New Hampton student.— For more on this story, see the March 19 New Hampton Tribune.