Christine Baker created Apex Elite Cheer and Dance about a year ago. Her daughters have competed for years, so Baker knows how pricey the sport is.
“It’s such an expensive sport and it often prices a lot of talented athletes out of the ability to compete so we decided to open a non-profit, small, invite-only cheer gym,” said Christine Baker. “So, what we look for his talent and also having that drive, that winning attitude.”
The All-Star Dance team comprises unique skill sets, including stunting and tricks, flexibility, balance, tumbling, and much more.
Morgain Baker, one of Christine’s daughters said, “We were at first going to do hip hop, but our choreographer decided variety would be best, since it’s so, it has a bunch of variety in it, so it would be more fun for us, and more diverse.”
The girls just got back from Anaheim, where they won the National Championship for their Senior Variety Dance.
Before that championship win, the team was in Oregon for a competition, and on the way back is when they found out they had been invited to The Summit.
Morgain, along with her teammates are very excited about the amazing opportunity. “Summit is so unheard of. Everyone dreams of going there, no one ever gets the chance to do it and like on our first competition, which happens to be at Nationals, we just get it. That’s crazy.”
Baker says they are the first Billings squad to receive an invite to the super bowl of dance and cheer.
Baker added, “I’ve heard that only about one percent of all-star teams make it to the summit, so that’s pretty exciting. So, when you start factoring in that it’s the absolute dream to make it to the Summit, and unfortunately a lot of these kids age out, so to be able to achieve that in your first year before you’re too old to do it, is so exciting for them.”
If you’d like to help Apex Dance and Cheer fund their trip to The Summit, you can do so here:
https://www.gofundme.com/help-us-get-to-the-summit?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_co_shareflow_m
