U.S. National Dancesport Champions (Professional 9-Dance)

The United States national professional ballroom dance champions are crowned at the United States Dance Championships (formerly USDSC, and USBC), as recognized by the National Dance Council of America (NDCA) and the World Dance & DanceSport Council (WD&DSC).

The 9-dance division consists of American-style smooth waltz, tango, foxtrot, Viennese waltz and rhythm cha cha, rumba, East Coast swing, bolero, and mambo.

U.S. National Champions

U.S. National Professional 9-Dance
Ballroom Dance / Dancesport Champions[1]
1988-1990 David & Carrie Kloss California California
1991-1993 Randy & Lynn Ferguson Texas Texas
1994-1995 Jesse Smith & Lynda Price Minnesota Minnesota
1996 Jim Desmond & Mary Murphy California California
1997 Alec & Denise Lazo Florida Florida
1998-1999 Clive Phillips & Karen McDonald[2][3] New York (state) New York
2000 Jay Larson & Julie Jacobson Minnesota Minnesota
2001-2002 Gleb & Tatiana Makarov New York (state) New York
2003-2005 Andrey & Anastasia Abrashin New York (state) New York
2006 Ben Ermis & Shalene Archer-Ermis Tennessee Tennessee
2007 Gunnar & Daryll Sverrisson Connecticut Connecticut
2008 Joe & Leisa Howard Virginia Virginia[4]
2009 Ilya & Amanda Reyzin Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
2010-2014 Peter Perzhu & Alexandria Perzhu[5] Florida Florida
2015 Jean Paul & Lana Rossi Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
2016-2017 Mykyta Serdyuk & Anna Krasnoshapka Wisconsin Wisconsin
2018 Oleksiy Pigotskyy & Natalie Crandall[6] Arizona Arizona
2019 Sergiy Samchynskyy & Yuliya Besarab North Carolina North Carolina
2020 Not held due to Covid-19 pandemic
2021-2022 Oleksiy Pigotskyy & Anastasiia Zhuchenko Arizona Arizona
2023 Ivan Sovetov & Valeria Mkrtchian New York (state) New York

See also

References

  1. ^ DanceDirectory.com Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ New York Times article March 22, 2000 "ARTS IN AMERICA; Burn the Rug? No! Burn the Floor! It's Dance Fever"
  3. ^ Dance New York Bio for Clive Phillips"
  4. ^ "Rules & Results - National Dance Council of America". www.ndca.org. Archived from the original on 2010-07-20.
  5. ^ "USDC 2014 Pro US National 9 Dance". gallery.supershag.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  6. ^ "Dance Beat Magazine - USDC 2018".