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About 70 girls filled the gymnasium at Holten Richmond Middle School yesterday, shooting hoops and practicing dribbling, as part of the Recreation Department?s Hip Hop Girls Club.
The weeklong summer program includes some hip-hop dancing, but is mostly about sports. It?s designed to give girls ages 4 to 12 exposure to a wide variety of sports, while teaching them some new dance moves and offering a craft twice a day to keep them busy.
?We take girls from any town,? said the club?s director, Nancy Purcell. ?They come here, and they get to try any sport.?
Yesterday, girls from Danvers, Middleton, Beverly, Topsfield and Peabody were playing basketball, but they try a little of everything, including soccer, kickball and running in relay races. On Tuesday, the girls got a taste of gymnastics at Yellow Jackets Gymnastics in Middleton.
The opportunity for young girls to try various sports is important, Purcell said, especially for those who are not part of a sports program and are not playing on a youth team.
The 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. program, which costs $130, allows the girls to be active and meet others they might not normally meet, Purcell said.
Dance is a big part of the program, and high school-age girls studying at the Liza Indiciani Studio of Dance in Beverly volunteered for the week to help run the program and teach the younger kids some hip-hop, ballet and jazz.
While the emphasis is on trying different sports, the dancing is definitely popular with the kids.
?I like the hip-hop and the fact we get to dance in front of everyone,? said Julie Kee, 10, of Danvers.
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