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Marshall dance team member to leap to NFL

 

Parthenon file photo by Richard Crank  Kaila Thompson (foreground) performs with the rest of the Marshall dance team at halftime of the Marshall football game against UAB Nov. 9, 2013.
Parthenon file photo by Richard Crank
Kaila Thompson (foreground) performs with the rest of the Marshall dance team at halftime of the Marshall football game against UAB Nov. 9, 2013.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Baltimore Ravens cheerleading team is gaining another daughter from Marshall University for the 2014-2015 season. That new member is Kaila Thompson, a senior majoring in sports management and marketing from Washington D.C.

Many previous dancers and cheerleaders from Marshall have gone on to cheer for the Baltimore Ravens including Nicolette D. and Whitney J.

Thompson began dancing at the age of three, competing at the age of six and continued until she was 17 and graduating high school. Dancing at Marshall was always an option for Thompson, but after making the team, it sealed the deal that Marshall was where she wanted to come to school.

“I actually had Marshall on my list so I never really looked at other dance teams at other schools,” Thompson said. “Once I made the team it kind of transformed my decision into coming here.”

In her time at Marshall, Thompson became captain of the dance team and made many memories traveling with the team and participating in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl as well as the Military Bowl.

“My favorite memories have to be winning bowl games. Both of the ones I went to we won.” Thompson said. ”It was an awesome feeling just to be able to go and travel with the team.”

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