Michael Garcia

By : Austin Beesley


Michael Garcia Royce City, was sophomore, tragically charged down in pursuit of basketball fame and ends up shooting his free throws in a different career.
Garcia at a young age was subject to change. Born on the east side of Dallas, Garland was his home for almost ten years until the atmosphere of his hometown became too dangerous to stay. “ The neighborhood was really bad, too many bad things were happening close to our house,” Michael said. After being robbed on numerous accounts, the Garcia family moved to a nice country house in Royce City hoping for a better life. At the age of 10, Michael started to play basketball in his backyard and became to love the game.

The start of his new and promising career was when Garcia caught his high school basketball coach’s eye. Only in the eighth grade, he was moved to the junior varsity team of his high. With a true love of the game Michael moved up the in the standings on his high school team but took a turn for the worse his senior year.

He was taking a charge in one of his last games his senior year, when the opponent crashed into him and practically finishing Garcia’s basketball career, “ When the guy charged he stepped on my foot and I just felt my ankle roll backwards. It was really rough,” he said. Although, recovering from his injury, playing basketball was just not the same.

Michael soon found a dance crew that filled that void from basketball. Dancing in a crew named the Untouchables, Michael is the newest member and said that the crew is like a family so doesn’t feel like he’s the newest member. Michael’s style is one-of-a-kind on his crew, because he is the only one who has an old school flavor. “I mostly do robotics and all the old school dances but the rest of the crew are into all the new dances like krumpn,” Michael said. The Untouchables will be competing in SFA’s first Best Dance Crew put on by KRumpn SLO Dance Organization.
The contest starts on November 2 and will be held the next two Mondays after that and consists of three dances with the first being a prop dance, the second is a tribute to Michael Jackson and the last dance is a surprise to even the dance crews. The Crew that wins the competition will receive $1,000 and bragging rights to the whole school. Michael and the Untouchables will being going against some stiff competition like fraternity step teams and the actual SFA dance crew the Jack Attack.