Sweethearts of the Gridiron

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Runs 87 minutes

This is a documentary about the Kilgore Rangerettes Drill team - a high-energy, high-kicking precision drill team. On September 12, 1940, the Rangerettes became the first dance team to serve as halftime entertainment for college football. Today they are an internationally renowned name among college drill/dance teams. In fact, girls must defer any college decisions and go through a grueling week-long tryout process the summer before their freshman year of college. If they make the Rangerettes, they jump into preparation for football season right away. If they don't make it, they must scramble for other college options at the last minute. All of the girls in this movie would say that the opportunity to make the Rangerettes was worth all of the blood, sweat, tears and dancing. This movie introduces us to some of the dancers from the First Line of Rangerettes. In fact, three of these 90 year-olds are still friends to this day and credit most of their success to being a Rangerette. The movie primarily follows a group of girls trying out for the 74th line of Rangerettes (2013). Each girl is talented and beautiful, but with over 100 girls auditioning and only around 34 spots, not everyone will make it. Just seeing what these girls go through and what the Kilgore Rangerettes mean to the town and to halftime entertainment everywhere makes this a fascinating documentary.

I loved this movie. It immediately took me back to my high scholl drill team days. But, even if you never performed, you can appreciate wht it takes to become a Kilgore Rangerette and the lifetime of pride that goes along with it. If you like documentaries, this is a very fun and interesting one. I never knew that Kilgore College had the first halftime drill team ever. Wow! Go see it and if you have any little girls, take them, too!

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