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Twirled for 4 years as a member of the Kailua High School Majorettes and Flag Twirlers and
in her senior year was selected captain.  During her tenor the team won many 1st and 2nd
place awards in the Aloha Week and Fourth of July Parade competitions.

Her mission is to give back to students what baton twirling has given her in the areas of
skill, discipline, self confidence and a healthy sense of social and individual responsibility.

You will see Sassafras "Get-Twirl Hawaii" baton corps volunteering at local community,
public and private events.

She says, "I am absolutely honored to be working with such awesome youth and adults and
delighted to be a pioneer in returning the sport of baton twirling to the Sate of Hawaii!
                                                           
VOLUNTEER CONSULTANT - Riina Roach

Riina began baton twirling at the inquisitive age
of  three.  She has twirled competitively for
over 20 years.  She is a member of PLMBA,
one of the finest and largest Baton Twirling
Associations in Japan.  Sassafras "Get-Twirl
Hawaii" is happy and proud to have “Coach
Riina” as our Volunteer Consultant.  We look
forward to her new coaching ideas and
techniques.

While practicing at PLMBA, she also coached
competitive twirling for local youth at Tokyo
Athletic Club and PL Kanagawa MBA.  She
came to Hawaii in 2006 to become the Head
Coach and Event Manager for another baton
school in Hawaii and was there until May,
2008.  

She also participated in the USTA 2007
Regional Competition in Hayward, CA. where
she twirled her way into two, 1st place awards
(twirling two batons at the same time).  The
team she coached and chaperoned at that time
also twirled themselves into second place team
performance and her team members also
placed in individual solos.

Besides competitions she performed at many
events in Japan, some of her most memorable
are Tokyo Disney Land and the International
Sports Fair in Tokyo.  Here in Hawaii she
participated in many local events, you might
have seen her in the Aloha Festival Parade,
Kamehameha Day Parade, or performing on
stage at Kahala, Windward or Pearlridge Malls
- Center Stage and even in Maui.  (We think
she likes traveling).

Professional Accomplishments:
•        Baton twirling instructor’s license
      (level 1) with Japan Marching Band and
      Baton Twirling Director’s Association.
•        License and certified in childcare
      (Kindergarten)
•        Competed in the All Japan Baton
      Championship, Kanto (Tokyo Area)
      Region  Solo.  Contest and PLMBA
      Championships where her specialty is
      Two Baton, and she was also a member
      of their winning team.

Meredith as been twirling baton since 2001.  
She is the inspiration behindSassafras "Get-Twirl-Hawaii".

She has assumed coaching and choreography responsibilities since 2006.

Professional accomplishments;
Twirltacular All Stars 2008 solo, 1st place Novice Division age 13-15 (Dance Twirl)

2008 Team member of Get-Twirl Hawaii, 1st and 2nd Place Dance Twirl

2006 Twirltacular Extravaganza, Team member of Sassafras Twirlers 1st place themed performance

Sassafras was also awarded the prestigious "Sportsmanship" award!

                   Volunteer Consultant
                                             Melinda Monks

Melinda Monks joins the Sassafras "Get-Twirl
Hawaii family.  She is thrilled to be twirling once
again after taking a few years off to have her
lovely children, Jack (age 3) and future twirler
Emily (age 1) and we are just as excited to have
her here twirling with us.   

Originally from West Virginia, Melinda was a
majorette and feature twirler throughout Junior
High and High School.  She twirled and danced
competitively in the 90’s, and was a member of
West Virginia University’s “Pride of West
Virginia Mountaineer Marching Band –
Colorguard.”  She also coached a high school
colorguard and winterguard unit in Maryland,
and twirled her way through the Miss West
Virginia and Miss Maryland Scholarship Pageants
Systems.  

Melinda is a proud Navy wife and work-at-home
mom, the owner/photographer of “Thousand
Words Photography."  Please visit her at
(www.thousandwordshawaii.com).
Diane Moses
Coach and Founder of Sassafras Get-Twirl-Hawaii since 2001.
State of Hawaii Baton Twirling Chair  for the AAU since 2004.
Student Coach
Meredith