One year after not being allowed to compete, LSU's dance team took home the 2022 UDA National Championship with a routine dedicated to fighting sexism in college athletics.
"Honestly, between semi-finals and the final performance, so literally 24 hours, there were people in the audience that knew the memorable parts of the dance and were doing it along with the girls," Rowe said.
But the team's moment in the spotlight wasn't over. Twenty-four hours after the competition, the routine had millions of views on TikTok. One week after nationals, dance teams from other schools were posting their own versions. Ciara even re-posted their dance to her Instagram Story, with the caption,"Go Girls! Get it done!"
But what the team noticed most in the comments was how much the routine meant to other collegiate dancers, many of whom said they had faced similar treatment from their own athletic departments. The LSU Athletic Department has since asked the team to perform their routine at a women's basketball game, and has said the win will be recognized at another sporting event, according to Hale. But Rowe says after such a frustrating and demeaning year, she hopes other athletic departments do more to support their athletes. "Though LSU is being highlighted right now, what happened to them happened to dozens of other dance teams during COVID-19," she said.
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