If people are saying the Kirkwood pommies aren’t a sport, they call men’s golf a sport, I think that just comes from a standpoint of misogyny.”ĭillon has had similar experiences with sexism impacting the pommies. “There are competitions where dance teams compete against other dance teams placements, scores and everything,” Cannon said. This idea is supported by the International Olympic Committee, who included chess as an Olympic sport in 1999, but have yet to do the same for dance. He said games, like chess and golf which include much less physical activity than dance, are often considered sports. In addition to the common misconceptions, Jack Cannon, senior, said pommies not being considered a sport is due to sexism. There’s a lot put into our practices that is both physically and mentally exerting.” “The sport is mentally-intense and a lot of people don’t realize or expect that. “We work most of the year competing against other teams,” Campbell said. She said this often goes unrecognized as a result of a lack of education on dance. show off our skill, provide entertainment and go out of our way to represent Kirkwood in our sport.”ĭon’t be so quick to make assumptions about sports.”Īddie Campbell, senior and varsity pommie, believes the pommies put in just as much work as other sports. “What we do is super important to get the crowd excited. “I wish dance could be a little bit more noticed,” Klevorn said. She said dance is more complicated to define since it is an art as well as a sport. likes every other sport, why not us? Why can’t we get the same attention?”ĭanielle Klevorn, pommie head coach, said her athletes are constantly training hard to be on the team. no one is there or everyone is looking at their phones. “We’re very overlooked or looked down on,” Dillon said. She said pommies are seen as a weaker sport or not a sport at all, even when they regularly do unnatural and high-risk movements. Tori Dillon, sophomore and JV pommie, said she has often felt this view reflected on the pommies’ performances. However, on the KHS athletics website, they’re still listed as a source of school spirit, rather than a sport. Similar to other KHS sports, the KHS dance team has a varsity and JV team, practices three times a week and participates in various competitions. BOOK AUSTRALIAN ACCOMMODATION AND TOURS.With the popular debate on whether or not dance is a sport, most of Kirkwood is in support of their dance team being a sport. The companies chosen are those usually used by Australia Travel Questions founder David Whitley when booking travel in Australia. This helps keep the site running and adding more guides. If you found this guide useful, please consider booking your accommodation and tours through the links to Wotif and Viator below.Īustralia Travel Questions earns a small commission from them at no extra cost to you. Photo by David Whitley/ Australia Travel Questions So even today, Australians call the English poms – mostly affectionately, even when it’s “whinging poms” The monument to the original Pom, Lt James Cook, in Kurnell, New South Wales. This, eventually, got shortened to “pom”, and that stuck. The English also had a reputation for red-faced complexions, which some cite as the reason for “pomegranate” catching on. After a while, the original “Jimmy Grant” was deemed to be similar enough to “pomegranate”. Some were born in the colonies and others sailed in from the other side of the world. The colonies had been going for long enough by that stage, however, for there to be an identity divide. The country wasn’t even known as Australia then. Written references to this appear as early as 1844, when all Australians were still British citizens. This got shortened to “Jimmy”, and English settlers were known as “Jimmys”. Originally the preferred slightly derogatory term was “Jimmy Grant” – rhyming slang for “immigrant”. Jimmy Grant?Īustralians haven’t always called the English “poms”. And the best evidence weighs in for a rather convoluted explanation. Unfortunately, there’s no good evidence for this. “Pom” is supposedly a bastardised acronym, meaning “ prisoner of Mother England” or “ prisoner of Her Majesty”. The most common explanation is that it’s a reference to Australia’s past as a convict colony.
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