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For the juniors it was Latin day and the US National Junior I Latin Championships gave a comfortable win to Alexander Sarkisian & Emmanuelle Gray who won all 5 dances with the majority of 1st places. Well done indeed! David Maimon & Jhailyn Farcon were the runners-up and they were 2nd in all dances and had the majority of “2nd or better” scores in all but cha cha. 3rd spot went to Ivan Sinelnikov & Olivia Sherman 3,4,3,3,4. Daniel Novikov & Mishella Vishnevskiy had another great day, placing 4th in this division and also winning the Pre-Teen II Latin (more on that below). In this division they placed 4,3,4,4,3. 5th Kirill Vassilenko & Ksenia Chekutova 5,5,5,5,5; 6th Anthony Mattos & Eva Zinchenko 6,6,6,6,6.
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In the US National Pre-Teen I Latin Leo & Daria moved up to 1st place and they lost very few 1st place marks to win all 5 dances. They received a perfect score in rumba. 2nd Jacob Karasik & Julia Mattos 2,2,2,2,3; 3rd Kirill Zakirzyanov & Valerie Snitko 3,3,3,3,2; 4th Leonardo Heyman & Elizabeth Yu 5,5,4,5,4; 5th Aleq Foyez & Emily Semerdjian 4,4,5,6,5; 6th Bosco Wong & Taylor Harrison 6,6,6,4,6.
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And so ended another stellar year at BYU for the US National Amateur Championships. We believe that this year the entry levels were at an all time high. This championship is not just about the individual national titles, there are pre-teen, junior and youth National Team Match Championships and these are some of the most enthusiastically supported events of the whole weekend. Plus, during the daytime sessions there are literally hundreds of competitors in the various syllabus divisions. Just as an idea, there were 236 couples in the elementary school syllabus swing!
Our congratulations to the hard-working organizational team of Lee Wakefield, Curt Holman and Brent Keck.
New National Champions Crowned in Provo
But was it a “Walk in the Park?”
Last night in the Marriott Center Austin Joson & Nino Dzneladze were crowned US National Amateur Latin Champions.
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The defending champions, Ferdinando Iacononne & Yulia Musikhina were unable to participate due to an injury.
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Rounding out the National Titles yesterday were the Championships in Senior I, Senior II and Senior III Ballroom. The top three in each category were as follows:
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Senior II – Thomas Yu & Yuko Naululani-Yu 1,1,2,1,1; David Getchell & Allison Gonzalez 2,2,3,2,3; Gokturk & Asli Yurtyapan 3,3,1,3,2.
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Interspersed among these national championships were huge syllabus divisions, many with about 150 entries plus the wonderful Team Match divisions for which the Utah and Idaho regions are so famous.
Stay tuned for today’s divisions that include the US National Amateur Ballroom Championship.
A Smooth Finish at Provo and Pre-Champs Step it Up!
Last night in Provo, Utah, the United States Amateur Smooth Championship came to a conclusion.
It began with a very strong first round and it ended with six fine finalists. We also had the largest Pre-Champ Latin competition in the history of the United States Amateur Championships and BYU with 146 couples competing for the privilege to make a final!
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One of our favorite couple because of their very unique style placed fourth Sawyer Stolle & Savana Francia with these marks 4,3,3,4, as you can see this tie between fourth and third had to be broken by a Rule 11 but in the end Sawyer & Savana ended up in fourth place. Fifth in this excellent Smooth Championship went to Landon Anderson & Chanel Kostich 5,6,5,5, and sixth was awarded to Matthew Holden & Janica Liu 6,5,6,6. A review of this event by Tomas Mielnicki will be here soon for all of you to read and we will also explain our take on this interesting competition.
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There was a full day of competition before we got to the Open events just mentioned and here are some of the highlights from those days. We have to say that the future of Smooth looks very bright and healthy and we are happy to report that.
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