Getting to Know the Class of 2017: Tori Krogh

Senior spotlight featuring Victoria Krogh

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Tori Krogh has played soccer all four years of high school.

Alyssa Ginther

Everyone has gotten butterflies in their stomach at some point in their life. Whether it was before a concert or a big game. Now imagine that feeling times a hundred. Last year, Victoria Krogh performed a ballet routine in front of 25,000 people at the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC). The conference was held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.  

The first time Krogh attended NCYC was back in 2013 when she was a freshman.  Krogh said she wanted to be part of something greater than just an attendee, so she applied to be an animator for the next conference. Animators were the people on stage helping out with the conference.

In July of 2015, all the animators, including Krogh, had a rehearsal week in Indianapolis to practice their roles. The conference was held in November that same year and lasted four days. Since she was an animator she had to get there two days earlier. Krogh stayed in a hotel room with a girl from Carroll and two girls from Audubon. 

Krogh was just one of 50 other animators who were at NCYC. Every animator had different roles. Some sang solos, performed in the orchestra, danced on stage, or read  readings. Krogh was one of the dancers and she performed her routine with four other girls.  The man who wrote the song they were dancing to was on stage singing it. Krogh said she was “terribly nervous,” about dancing on stage.

Besides dancing at the conference, Krogh also met some new people. “I will never forget those moments there, or my friends,” she said. She still talks to these people in a group message today. Krogh’s whole experience of dancing a ballet routine and making new friends is what made NCYC the most memorable moment of her life so far.