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

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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).

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

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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".