She did cheerleading in elementary school. When she entered junior high school, she started cheerleading and continued cheerleading at Kyushu Gakuin High School, an integrated junior and senior high school. At that time, Kyushu Gakuin High School was said to be number one in the Kyushu region and was able to participate in national competitions. There, for the first time, she was able to watch the performance of the J. F. Oberlin University Song Reading Club.

It was shocking. From the performance, I learned that the worldview that comes from the team is necessary for cheer dancing. Even though we placed third nationwide, it felt like we had been doing cheerleading just for fun. I want to join the Obirin Song-Leading Club! I strongly thought so. Cheer dancing was popular in the Kanto region, so when I participated in the selection, I didn't really know what level I was. But I think my enthusiasm for joining this club was more expressive than anyone else. Looking back now, I find my desperation endearing.

The great thing about CREAM is that it values feelings. Even for a single expression, we have intense, conversations within the team. While valuing each person's opinion, we bring together and complete a single form. Thinking that I have grown as a person through these kinds of relationships makes me truly glad I joined this team

I was shy. Dance was my only way of expressing myself, but I didn't express my opinions and was reluctant to participate in discussions. I tried to perfectly execute whatever the team decided. But apparently that wasn't enough. A senior pointed this out to me in October of my first year. They told me they didn't know if we were communicating properly and that they didn't want to dance with me anymore. I was responding to my senior's feelings through dance. I was trying my best to respond in my own way. But it wasn't enough to just think that way; sometimes you can't understand each other unless you properly communicate your thoughts and feelings. I deeply regretted that I couldn't continue with this personality. At first, it might be awkward and I might be overthinking things, but I made an effort to speak up as actively as possible.

Despite all that, the coach appointed me as vice-captain. This was during my second year. In this position, when everyone offered their opinions, such as "This is how we should understand this song" or "This is the best way to follow the choreography," I was also required to summarize and bring those opinions together. It wasn't just a matter of being shy; it was like being told to demonstrate leadership. I also learned from that experience that you can't move people unless you speak with passion and conviction, not just talk.

Even someone like me has one thing I'm good at. You could call it my ability to recreate things, or perhaps my ability to understand expression. When someone talks about wanting to dance to a certain kind of world, I'm good at showing them how to express it through dance, for example. I'm also good at quickly recreating the choreography from the coach and teaching the dance to everyone. Perhaps because of this, when I became a third-year student, I was appointed club president.

There are two major songleading competitions: the "ALL JAPAN CHEER DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP" in November and the "USA School & College Nationals" in March, which also offers a chance to be recommended for the world championships. As club president, I participated in the "ALL JAPAN CHEER DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP" and placed 2nd in the Jazz division and 3rd in the Pom division. At the "USA School & College Nationals," we placed 2nd in the Open division and 4th in the Pom division. I was disappointed that we couldn't achieve better results because we felt we had delivered a performance we were truly satisfied with.

Besides this competition, there is another competition called the "World of Dance Championship." This is not so much a songleading competition, but rather a dance competition that transcends genres, including contemporary and hip-hop. In other words, it is not an official songleading competition, but a free-participation competition that CREAM entered on its own. We came in second place at the competition in Japan, and we have earned a ticket to the world championships to be held in Anaheim, California, USA in July.

Although it wasn't an official songleading competition and participation was open to everyone, we decided to take the plunge and participate using the savings we had accumulated as a team, with the goal of one day competing in the world championships. In the end, we were eliminated in the preliminary round. We weren't able to perform as well as we had hoped during the actual competition. We went all the way to America, and while it made us aware of our team's weaknesses, we also gained a lot. Participating in workshops with contemporary dancers and other activities reaffirmed that there is still so much potential in songleading as a form of expression.
With the world championships over, a generational shift is underway, and the captaincy will be passed on to the current third-year students. I will be retiring after the November competition, so I want to pass on everything I've experienced in CREAM to my juniors through words and actions. And I want to aim to be the best in Japan and deliver performances that resonate with many more people through dancing from the heart.