You could say Pawleys Island native Sarah Hawkinson plays with fire, but with a positive spin. She also juggles a few things in her day-to-day work life.
The 28-year-old baton twirler, fire twirler, baton teacher, and fire and flow artist has been baton twirling since she was six and hasn’t taken a break since then. Her first competition team was with Carolina Dynamics out of Waccamaw Elementary School, where she originally learned how to spin fire.
“I went to their practice after school one day and saw the girls tossing the batons and doing stuff, and I was interested, so my mom let me join,” says Hawkinson. “I had always done dance and gymnastics too, and once I was doing all three, my mom said I couldn’t do all three, so I chose baton and dance.”…