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Dragon Tails show Spirit
Christina Rowland, Staff writer
Got Dragon spirit? Want to prove it? The Carroll Senior High School cheerleaders are hoping others will join them in showing their spirit this year by donning dragon tails..
The project was a team effort that began in the summer with the making of the tails, and has carried over into the school year with the selling of a spirit item called Dragon Tails..
The Dragon Tails were an idea from one of the cheer moms after seeing a college with tiger tails. In the past, the girls have always sold calendars as their fundraiser with pictures of all the sports teams in them.
“This is something the girls did,” said cheer mom Donna Friedel. “The calendar was made by two moms.”
The Dragon Tails are about three feet long and made of green fur with black spikes.
“My mom volunteered to make all the tails,” said junior cheerleader Hailey Thorn. “She made the first tale and the patterns.”
Once the patterns were established, the girls split up the duties of cutting out all the pieces. There were fur cutters and spike cutters and in all the girls made 500 tails.
“Only six people cut green fur, so it took a long time to cut 500,” junior cheerleader Reagan Lee said. “Everybody took home black triangles and stuffed tails.”
There are 21 cheerleaders on the team and each was required to make black triangles for the tails and to stuff 25 tails. Some girls even took their black triangles to the state baseball game this summer and made triangles in their rooms at night.
The girls have taken a liking to the Dragon Tails, but are glad that the fur cutting and tail stuffing part is over.
“It’s different than what other schools do; Grapevine and Colleyville do calendars,” Lee said. “Everybody is so spirited here (so this works).”
The tails are meant to go on the back of cars, but the girls having a running list of what else the tails can be used for including room decorations, ways to show spirit at the games, and even hair scrunchies.
The dragon tails are being sold at every home football game for $12 and at the circulation nights at the schools. According to Lee, more than 100 tails were sold at the first game.
“A lot of these sell too because everybody is the same mascot. We are all dragons,” said senior cheerleader Haley Friedel. “It’s so new and different (too).”
Thorn said the Dragon Tails are popular with parents that have young kids. All the kids want one.
The cheerleaders hope to sell out of their Dragon Tails and will look at making this their new annual fundraiser after football season ends and they see how many were sold. Be on the look at for Dragon Tails at the home football games.
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