There are several Florida State University spirit groups that people are familiar with: The FSU cheerleaders, the FSU Golden Girls and the Bat Girls.
But you may not have heard about the FSU Nolettes, the newest majorette team on campus.
Despite the fact that FSU currently has a majorette team, the Golden Girls, the Nolettes add an expanded variety of dance styles, including jazz, ballet and hip-hop.
This dance form will resemble the majority of majorette teams usually associated with historically Black college and university campuses.
Sydney Malveaux, a third-year business student at FSU and co-captain of the Nolettes, said the team saw the other dance groups on campus but felt there wasn’t a space for their particular style of dance.
“Part of it also was that we knew Florida A&M University didn’t have an active majorette team as well,” Malveaux said. “We knew we could pull a lot of fans and attraction just by being a majorette team alone in Tallahassee.”
The nine-member team performs regularly during halftime at the Seminoles men’s and women’s basketball games at the Tucker Center.