SYCAMORE – Less than an hour before tip-off of the boys basketball game against Burlington Central last Friday, Sycamore’s competitive dance team is running through its halftime routine in the dance room.

Typically the Spartanettes create a new dance number for each home game, but this week they’re performing their competition routine, a lyrical dance choreographed to a Boyce Avenue cover of Katy Perry’s hit song “Teenage Dream.”

When the 15 girls walk out at halftime to perform, the usual nerves hit for senior Emily Karsten.