Fall Competition Recap
In the fall competitive season, MITBDT maintained their strong presence in finals across almost all styles and levels. After opening up the year with Harvard Beginners, MITBDT members journeyed to Brown, Tufts, and Columbia Universities to dance off against other collegiate teams.
Results for Tufts and Columbia competitions are viewable through o2cm, and our results at Brown were published by the Tech. Below is a highlight of some of our many victors during our fall season, and we look forward to dancing again in the spring.
Continuing their streak at Harvard Beginners, the rookies won the Christina Cryan Newcomer Team Match for the eleventh year in the row at Brown University. Furthermore, Matthew L. Cavuto ’17 with Rachael Schwartz (Wellesley ’18) and Alex Padron with partners Amber T. Guo ’18 and Zuyi Wang (Wellesley ’18) consistently placed at the forefront of all newcomer styles.
Second year dancers Corey Cleveland ’17 and Clio Flikkema (Wellesley ’17) have steadily powered through all four styles, grabbing finalist positions in almost all of their events at all three competitions at the Silver level. Vitaly Abdrashitov G and Amy Ishiguro ’16, placing highly in finals in Silver Standard and Smooth events, have advanced to the Gold level.
At the Gold level, Brian Solomon & Jessica Bernier placed in Latin finals at Brown and Tufts and semifinals at Columbia. Ross Finman G with Ji Shiyan and Dilip Thekkoodan SM ’14 with Amy Fan ’15 consistently placed as finalists in Standard. Thekkoodan and Fan also placed first in Smooth events at both Brown and Columbia, propelling them to Prechamp Smooth.
Finally, Ben Moss PhD ’14 with Esther Rheinbay and Giorgio Gaglia with Lihua Bai ’09 represented the team in Champ Standard and Prechamp Standard events, respectively, at all three competitions and placed highly at all three.