Four members of the Hot Shots Jump Rope Team from Franklin, Tennessee, will appear on Pickler & Ben, a new daytime talk show hosted by country music star Kellie Pickler and Emmy-winning television personality Ben Aaron, on Tuesday, September 26. The show airs daily on CMT and on Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 WTVF at 9 a.m.
Olivia Byrd, Cara Moyers, Delaney Talbert, and Jacob Weatherford, all students at Franklin High School, were invited to display their rope-jumping talents on the show after producers learned of their success at the World Jump Rope Championship this summer in Orlando. At the competition that featured 800 competitors from 30 countries, these four athletes won a total of six gold medals and earned top-10 finishes in nine other events. On Pickler & Ben, they performed a pairs Double Dutch routine and then invited Kellie and Ben to jump in and show their skills.
The Hot Shots team is coached by Lisa Arnold. For more information about the team, visit www.hotshotstn.org or follow them on Facebook at Hot Shots TN. To learn more about the sport of jump rope, visit www.worldjumprope.org.
