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Another common response was doing a special handshake before or after teammates compete. Students who responded that they did a handshake said they always do it with their best friends or their teammates to get excited and ready for their game. Audrey Stephenson, a member of the varsity dance team, said in an interview over the phone that, “before competing, all of us, including our coaches, stand in a circle and hold hands and we each ‘pass the squeeze’ around the circle. We never go without doing it because it’s something we all know to do before competing, and it makes us hyped up and ready.”
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