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Entertainment

Luke Bryan announces 2015 tour

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On Jan., 21 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, country superstar, Luke Bryan surprised his fans with a special announcement at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville Tennessee.

Many tuned to lukebryan.com to hear what Bryan had to say.

“Let’s get down to business,” Bryan joked after getting brought out to the stage.

He announced that his new tour will kick off in the spring of 2015 and will be called “Kick The Dust Up.” The tour is named after a new single that will appear on in his upcoming album.

In the Kick The Dust Up tour, there will be 13 doubles, which are nights where Bryan will play two shows in a row, and seven stadium shows. One of these stadium shows will take place at First Energy Stadium in Cleveland.

Bryan also announced his tour partners will be Florida-Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett.

The Kick The Dust Up tour will kick off in May and end in November.

Sports

Gymnastics girls spring into new season

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With a new coach this year, it does not look like the girls gymnastic team will have trouble springing into a new season.

“We have new coaches this year so we are going about prepping differently. We have practice after school and there we practice the events we will compete in,” senior Erin Kilke said.

The past few years the team has been very successful and new coach, Callie Jedrzejek, hopes to continue the tradition.

“I am hoping to improve on the girls skills, create a hard working environment for the girls, create team bonding and of course, have a winning season,”  Jedrzejek said.

This year, the team’s goal for the season is to achieve a score over 130.00 for one meet.

“We want to make it to states this year,” senior Jennifer Rinaldi said.

The team’s biggest rivals include: the Solon Comets, the Cuyahoga Falls Black Tigers and the Hudson Explorers with the Twinsburg Tiger’s trailing behind.

“Our biggest rivals would have to be Falls or Hudson, but I think we are going to beat them this year,” senior Emily Hudia said.

There are a few girls to watch out for this season: Sara Kasper is a level nine gymnast, who will be putting up some big scores this season. She is especially great on the floor and vault.

Hannah Schneider is a senior gymnast and her first time on the high school team. She is a level ten gymnast and will be contributing great scores on the bars and beams.

Jennifer Rinaldi is an all around wonderful gymnast who will be the lead scorer this season.

The girls have a tough gymnastic conference and have to be prepared if they want to win.

Rinaldi said, “We’re expecting this year to be pretty successful. We have a strong returning team and a couple of new girls who will definately be great assets. I’m looking forward to the season.”