Every year during CIAA basketball tournament there is an event that resonates throughout the city and that event is the CIAA Step Show. The step show features some of the best steppers around the CIAA conference. This year they introduced high school step teams to the mix. Also, the location was changed from the Charlotte Convention Center to the Bojangles Arena.

The step show was very interesting in its design because it didn't have the normal set up everyone would think, which would probably be the high school students going first and then the fraternities and sororities. Instead of doing that they mixed it up all together which I think was a pretty interesting idea. You were able to see the upcoming talent and then see some that have been in perfection for years. Some of the high schools actually were surprising, with their themes, talent, and precision.

When it was it all was said and done, the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta from Fayetteville State University and the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma from our very own Johnson C. Smith University won first prize. Winning the CIAA step show correlates months of practice, sweat and tears, and a lot of hard work, but in the end to hear your name being said when it is all done is a priceless feeling.

Posted By: Andrew Milden, Junior