＜日本語/English＞体育祭で4年ぶりに「応援合戦」が復活へ。2チームが演技の特訓中です。

English below. 

 

武庫川女子大学の体育祭が5月13日、14日に4年ぶりに制限なしで開催されます。体育祭の名物行事「応援合戦」は中止になった2020年度を除き、食物栄養科学部(食栄・食創応援団）のみが受け継いできましたが、今年は健康・スポーツ科学科と短大健康・スポーツ学科の合同チーム(新健・短健応援団）が参加し、複数チームによる「合戦」が復活します。両チームとも授業の合間や放課後に練習を続けており、息の合った演技に磨きをかけています。

 

食栄・食創応援団はスポーツ系のチームを押さえて、2019年まで４連覇していた実力派。他のチームにないコミカルな動きや早変わりの技があり、コロナ禍でも唯一、伝統を受け継いできました。制限がなくなった今年度は演技する1年生約50人と指導する2年生12人をそろえ、4月中旬から練習を続けています。昨年ひな壇で演技した2年生が丁寧に動きを伝え、時にはマンツーマンで指導します。

 

一方の新健・短健応援団は3年間の空白で、応援団経験者が一人もいない状態。メンバーがなかなか集まらず、出遅れましたが、4月下旬に1～3年生の混成チームを結成して団長自ら演技に加わり、追い上げをはかっています。

 

食栄・食創応援団の団長を務める食物栄養学科2年の前田葉名さんは「まだまだ未完成ですが、4年ぶりの合戦復活にふさわしい演技を届けられるよう頑張ります。楽しかった！と思い出に残る演技ができれば」、新健・短健応援団の団長、健康・スポーツ科学科3年の米倉りえるさんは「先輩たちの演技動画を参考にしつつ、伝統を現代風にアレンジして新しいものを作りたい。短期間ですが、しっかりそろえてみせます」と話しています。

 

Mukogawa Women's University's Sports Festival will be held on May 13 and 14 for the first time in four years with no restrictions. The famous event of the sports festival, "Cheering Competition," has been succeeded only by the Faculty of Food Nutritional and Sciences (Shokuei/Shokuso Cheering Team) except for the year 2020 when it was canceled, but this year, the joint team of the Department of Health and Sports Science and the Department of Health and Sports of the Junior College (Shinken/Tanken Cheering Team) will participate, and the "battle" by multiple teams will be revived. Both teams have been practicing in between classes and after school, refining their performances to be in sync with each other.

 

The Shokuei/Shokuso Cheering Squad is a team that held off the sports teams and won the championship for four consecutive years until 2019. They are the only team in the era of the pandemic to continue the tradition, with comical moves and quick moves that other teams did not have. This year, with the restrictions removed, the team has about 50 first-year students who perform and 12 second-year students who will act as instructors, and they have been practicing since mid-April.

 

On the other hand, the Shin-Ken and Tanken cheering squads have been empty for three years, with no one having experience in the cheering squad. The team members had a hard time gathering and were late to the party, but in late April, a mixed team of first through third-year students was formed, and the leader of the team himself joined the performance to catch up.

 

Hana Maeda, a second-year student in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, who is the leader of the Shokuei/Shokuso Cheering Group, said, "We are still a work in progress, but we will do our best to deliver a performance worthy of the return of the competition after a four-year absence." Rieru Yonekura, a junior in the Department of Health and Sports Science and leader of the Shinken/Tanken Cheering Squad, said, "We want to create something new, using videos of our seniors' performances as a reference and arranging traditions in a modern way. We have a short period of time, but we will make sure to get it right."We have a short period of time, but we will make sure to get it right.