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Sisters Sequoia, Sayla, and Sahara Are Taking

Over the Cornwall Athletic Scene

By Molly Kett Powell School of Dance and she also plays for the
Kinsmen Girls Softball League.
equoia aged 15, Sayla aged 10, and Sahara Sayla started training and playing as a pitcher as
Saged 8, are sisters who are deeply involved in well this past year. She has been dancing since she
Cornwall athletics. was three and playing softball since she was five.
Sequoia dances competitively with Powell She takes classes in jazz, tap, lyrical, ballet, hip
School of Dance, taking lessons in tap, ballet, jazz, hop, and acro. Sayla also participates in the Spikes
lyrical, and pointe. She also plays for the Kinsmen volleyball program and was on the cross-country
Girls Softball league where she plays on both the and Newcomball teams for her school this year.
house and travel teams. She trains for and mainly Sahara, like her older sisters, participates in
plays as a pitcher. competitive dancing for Powell School of Dance
Sequoia also plays on sports teams at Holy Trinity and plays for the Kinsmen Girls Softball League.
and made the Junior Basketball team this year. Sahara has been dancing since she was three and
“Sequoia has been dancing since she was one playing softball since she was five. She takes classes
and a half and playing softball since she was five,” in jazz, tap, lyrical, ballet, acro, and hip hop.
says Ella Fuller, the girls’ mother. “Sequoia is also “We feel it is important for the girls to be busy
a Demonstrator for the younger children at Powell and involved in team sports,” says Fuller. “We put
School of Dance and a Ballerina Dreams Volunteer, them in sports when they were young, and they
assisting in a dance therapy class for children with have all gravitated towards doing the same ones, Photo Submitted
special needs.” often looking up to Sequoia and following in her
have lasted over the years.”
Sequoia’s younger sister, Sayla, also participates footsteps as a motivator. The girls have formed
This competitive dance season, all three girls
in dance as part of the Competition Dance Team for many different friendships through these teams that
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