Competitive Ballroom Dance Experience
- Professional
Dance Competitor
- Rising
Star and Open Divisions
- California
Open; American Latin; 1st and 2nd Places
- California
Star Ball; American Latin; 1st and 2nd Places
- Embassy
Ball; American Latin; 2nd Place
- Emerald
Ball; American Latin; Finalist
- Unique
Star Ball; All-Around Category; 1st Place
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- Professional-Amateur
Dance Competitor (1990 - present)
- American
Latin and Ballroom; Bronze - Gold Levels; 1st, 2nd, 3rd places
- California
Open
- California
Star Ball
- Embassy
Ball; American Latin
- Emerald
Ball; American Latin
- Unique
Star Ball; All-Around Category
 Competitive
Clogging Dance Experience
(Appalachian
clogging, buck dancing, clogging routines, freestyling, a cappella style)
- Sawtooth Country
Cloggers; 20 members (5 years)
- Northwest
Regionals; Oram, Utah
- 1st Place
-- All-Around Team Division
- 2nd
Place -- Duet (showcased own advanced clogging choreography)
- Buckshot Cloggers;
16 members (2 years)
- Pomona
State Fair; Pomona, California
- 1st Place
-- Team Division
- Knott's Berry
Farm; Buena Park, California
- 1st Place
-- Team Division
- 1st
Place -- Duet (showcased own advanced clogging choreography)
- 3rd
Place -- Solo
- Cripple Creek
Cloggers; 17 members (1 year)
- Exhibition
Shows
- Irvine
Harvest Festival
- Disneyland
- Knott's
Berry Farm
- Irvine
Harvest Festival
- Church
organizations and various So Cal communities
- Clogging Champion
for State of California; Calico, California (2 years in a row)
- Solo
Competition showcasing own advanced clogging choreography
- Valhalla
Folk Dance Team; 20 members (1 year)
- Vice
President and Choreographer
- BYU
Junior, Rexburg, Idaho
Performance
Experience
- Disneyland; Anaheim, California (2
seasons)
- State Fair Parade
- Mainstreet Electrical Parade
- Governor's Convention; Boise, Idaho
- Solo exhibition for banquet entertainment
for US governors
- Unique Star Ball; Albuquerque, New
Mexico
- Represented BYU Jr; Coffeeville, Kansas
- Valhalla Folk Dance Team
- Half-time show for Football
National Championship Game
- Leisure World; Laguna Woods, California
- Package evenings: class, exhibition,
and party
Teaching
Experience
- Private Dance Instruction; (1994 -
present)
- Southern California
- Phil's Ballroom; Orange,
California
- Avant Garde Ballroom;
Newport Beach, California
- American Latin and Smooth
- Country Western
- East Coast & West
Coast Swing
- Salsa
- Arthur Murray Dance Studio; El Toro,
California (1990 - 94)
- Dance Director -- Trained
new staff members, reviewed old staff members
- Clogging
- Twin Falls, Idaho
- Worked and trained the Sawtooth
Country Cloggers
- Rexburg, Idaho
- Choreographed all clogging numbers
for Valhalla Folk Dance Team
- 1st place -- Rexburg
Invitational (team division)
Education
- Private Coaching (Ballroom)
- California (instructors)
- Ron Montez (American
Latin and Smooth); 2- 3 years
- Rick Valenzua (American
Latin); 2-3 years
- David Kloss (American
Latin and Smooth); 1 year
- Lessons at private conventions
and workshops; 12 years
- Private Coaching (Clogging)
- Idaho
- Ed Austin (Exhibition
Clogging); 5 years
- Lessons at private conventions
and workshops; 9 years
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