High Jumps Cheer and Dance Company was established and founded by Walterboro native, Janay Parnell on August 16, 2016. Ms. Parnell, who had served as the assistant cheer coach at the middle school in Colleton County School district for 10 years, had decided to start a community team to
target a wider range of students. At the time in the school system, there were certain criteria that
had to be met to be eligible for school sports, clubs and other organizations. Students had to have
a certain GPA and no disciplinary issues in order to try out for cheerleading. “I wanted to get around
that and give the little girl that may be struggling with math and the one that seems to keep getting
in trouble every day in class, a chance to be involved in an extracurricular activity. Sometimes, all achild need is for someone to take a chance on them to change their downward path to a climbing
status.”
The original idea was to start a community all-star competitive cheer team, but after finding a lot of
the girls were interested in dance, the platform changed to suit the demand of the youth in the area.
Inspired by the then popular tv show, Bring It, The Divine Dynasty Dancers and Dynasty Dolls dance
teams were birthed out of High Jumps Cheer and Dance Company. As of today, the award-winning
dance teams consist of dancers ages 4-18 years old and is currently in its 8th competition season.
DDD specializes in majorette, hip-hop and lyrical dance, as well as cheer pom-pom and acrobat.
Open enrollments for ages 4-8 is year round and tryouts for ages 9-17 are twice a year.
Janay Parnell/ 843-898-0570
Facebook page: HighJumps CheerandDance
Instagram: divine_dynasty_dancers
TikTok: @divinedynastydancers
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