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YOUTH COMPETITION
Chandler step team honored for triumph by council, mayor
Independent Newsmedia/Jason W. Brooks
The Chandler-based Pretty Precise Step Dance program was honored by Chandler City Council member Matt Orlando and Mayor Kevin Hartke at a recent meeting. The step-dance team took first place in the middle-school division May 11 at the Youth National West Coast Step Show Competition in Las Vegas. Holding the trophy is co-founder Lateka Curtis, with Orlando on the left and Hartke to the right.
The Chandler-based Pretty Precise Step program was honored by Chandler City Council member Matt Orlando and Mayor Kevin Hartke at a recent meeting.
The step-dance team took first place in the middle-school division May 11 at the Youth National West Coast Step Show Competition in Las Vegas.
The team is part of a nonprofit for at-risk youth founded in 2020 to help minority at-risk youth to express themselves through the art of stepping and dance.
The three-team program has grown to about 35 girls. Curtis said all girls in the program have consistently maintained a 3.6 grade-point average at their schools or higher, allowing them to miss time to travel.
Pretty Precise Step Team was founded by a mother-daughter duo Curtis and Cheyanne James.
The program says it provides a sisterhood, a safe environment to keep the youth off the streets and is an anti-bullying program. Learn more about the team and donate to the nonprofit at prettysteppin.org.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
He covers the Chandler area for both yourvalley.net and the monthly print edition while writing for and assisting in the production of the Daily Independent.
Brooks is a well-traveled journalist who has documented life in small American communities in nearly all U.S. time zones.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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