COLLEGE 'TIGER GIRL' DREAMS OF DANCING IN NBA

Basketball fans at Louisiana State University's Pete Maravich Center in Baton Rouge probably had no idea that one of the Tiger Girls dancing in the halftime show Saturday is deaf in both ears, said The Daily Reveille. Andrea Sonnier, an elementary education major, took up dancing in high school, earning a spot on the dance squad as a junior after being rejected two years earlier and signing up for dance lessons. Sonnier is pursuing a career teaching deaf children and hopes to continue dancing, perhaps even with the NBA. Meanwhile, she sleeps with her hearing aid on ("because her parents are no longer there to wake her up") and said it is not unusual for the battery to die in the middle of a dance performance.

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DEAFBAYOU Editor’s Note:  Andrea went to Lafayette High School (LHS) with my daughters.  In her last two years at LHS, I never missed seeing her dancing at the halftime.  In addition Andrea went to dance camp in Alabama with my daughter interpreting while a student of LSU.

Personally I wish her the best of luck for her future of NBA dancer and especially teaching career.