The girls were too energized and talented to stay sidelined. So Nikita Hearne drew ideas from her own youth, studied the soulful, fast and precision moves of university cheerleaders down south and ...

Like leggings and peace signs, could baton-twirling be the next old trend to make a comeback? Former competitive twirler Sharla Comstock is betting on the nostalgia of parents and intrigue of children ...

A longtime friend and school classmate of the CEO’s was once one. I saw her picture in the high school annual wearing a uniformed top, flippy skirt and high-topped white boots. She looked lovely and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Every summer for the last 57 years, UT's campus briefly holds more batons than people. Kids of all ages come to learn from UT's majorettes at twirling camp. "It's a combination of ...

Next year, only two majorettes will take the field when the Tuscaloosa County High School marching band performs at halftime at football games. In 2009, they'll no longer be part of the halftime ...

CHELMSFORD — To the untrained eye, baton-twirling may appear to be easy, something that requires little effort to pick up. But for the girls and women who dedicate themselves to the sport for years, ...

In their heyday in the late 1960s, a photograph of the University of Kentucky Sweetheart Majorettes appeared in Newsweek magazine, and when the young women went out as a group, people treated them ...