By Libby Hyde 
Ride to school with the girls. Classes, lunch and activity with the girls. More class. Dance team with the girls. Ride home with the girls. Homework, shower, bed. Repeat.
From school days and dance team to hanging out on the weekends, Lexi Holsapple, Lily Walsh, Alison Munoz, Ally Pribyl and Alex Mullins are bound to be spending a lot of time together. Excluding Munoz, they all dance at the same studio outside of school, LeDance, and all girls except Munoz attended the same grade school,St. Michael’s, and have been good friends since early in their grade school years.
And then they met Munoz this previous summer at STA dance tryouts in April, she was the only one from her school to come to STA. Munoz and the others instantly clicked. Now, you would never be able to tell they have only known her for a few short months. They all sit around chatting and laughing together during lunch and activity, or spending time on the weekends just “hanging out”.
“[Coming into this friendship], it wasn’t hard to mesh,” Munoz said. “[The girls] aren’t mean, we were all really outgoing.”
When asked how much time they spend together, they all gave resounding claims of “a lot!” However, they said it never creates problems in their friendship or on the varsity dance team. But how can five girls spend that much time together and yet refrain from wanting to lunge at each others’ throats every other second?
“[Being on the same team] is good because it encourages [us] to be better friends, and also better dancers too,” Mullins said.
They all agreed that being on the same team encourages their friendship.
“We’re more motivated to go to practice and be with our friends,” Holsapple said.
Of course, spending so much time together creates a different kind of friendship. “I don’t think we really fight, because we’re with each other so much,” they said. “We have so much in common. For some people, it might make them fight, but not us.”
“It doesn’t feel like we’re friends, it’s just like we’re sisters.”
They consider themselves sisters so much, they all agreed that if they had not been put on the same team at STA, they would have been asked to be moved down — dance team is a huge part of their friendship. They would all choose their friendship over dance.
