Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at MIT Open on April 25-26 2026. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Beginner (Bronze)
Waltz
2) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
3) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
4) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Tango
2) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
5) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai

Viennese Waltz
2) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
3) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
4) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Foxtrot
1) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
2) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
5) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai

Quickstep
3) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
4) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai

Intermediate (Silver)
Tango/Foxtrot 
3) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Vienesse Waltz
2) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Advanced (Gold)
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep 
6) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu

Latin

Beginner (Bronze)
Chacha 
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
4) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange

Samba
2) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
7) Laila Sumic & Manini Rana

Rumba
2) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange
7) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova

Paso Doble
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Jive
2) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
8) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova

Intermediate (Silver)
Samba/Jive
2) Zichen Zhu & Sylvia Zhang
3) Makenna Reilly & Franziska Klingenberg

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Northeastern University on April 12 2026. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep 
3) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
4) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange

Tango
2) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
3) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
5) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
7) Mason Myers & Elisabeth Bullock

Latin

Bronze
Cha Cha/ Rumba
1) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Jive
4) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
5) Ben Helman & Brian Goodell

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
2) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Samba
2) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Gold
Cha Cha/Rumba/Samba/Jive
2) Michael Morton & Kateryna Morhun

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Columbia University on Feb 14-15 2026. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm
3) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
4) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
6) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova

Tango
1) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
3) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm
5) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova
6) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai

Quickstep
1) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
3) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm
5) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai

Bronze
Foxtrot
3) Brian Goodell &  Jane Lange
5) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
5) David Song & Emma Montgomery

Tango/Foxtrot
8) David Song & Emma Montgomery

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
5) Edward McManus & Scarlet Ren

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
2) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Ben Helman & Brian Goodell

Rumba
2) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
4) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange
7) Ben Helman & Brian Goodell

Jive
2) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
4) Elisabeth Bullock & Emiliana Dimitrova
5) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange

Bronze
Samba
7) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
8) Anne Reidenbach & Ivy Gu

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Boston University on Sunday 12/7. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Mason Myers &  Jane Lange
2) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
3) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin

Tango
1) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
2) Mason Myers & Jane Lange
3) Melinda Reyneke & Kimaya Rangasamy
4) John Kuszmaul & Laila Sumic
5) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
6) Brian Goodell & Manini Rana

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
1) Seth Landers & Carly Mccreary
4) David Song & Emma Montgomery
6) Makenna Reilly & Maya Harris

Tango/Foxtrot
1) Seth Landers & Carly Mccreary
2) David Song & Emma Montgomery
6) Makenna Reilly & Maya Harris

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
2) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
4) Edward McManus & Scarlet Ren
6) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
2) Ben Helman & Eugenie Lai
3) Kimaya Rangasamy & Melinda Reyneke

Rumba
1) Moksh Garg & Carly Fridlin
2) Ben Helman & Eugenie Lai
3) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange
3) Kimaya Rangasamy & Melinda Reyneke

Bronze
Cha Cha/ Rumba
1) Makenna Reilly & Zdenka Myslikova

Silver

Samba/Jive
3) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
2) Michael Morton & Kateryna Morhun

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Tufts on Sunday 11/23. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
2) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm
3) Mason Myers &  Jane Lange

Tango
2) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
3) Mason Myers & Jane Lange
4) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm
7) Elisabeth Bullock & Josefina Correa-Menendez
8) Moksh Garg & Herissa Lamothe

Quickstep
1) Ben Helman & Kendall Nakai
2) Mason Myers & Jane Lange
4) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Eden Orzech & Sylvia Zhang

Tango
2) Eden Orzech & Sylvia Zhang

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Seth Landers & Carly Mccreary

Tango
4) Seth Landers & Carly Mccreary

Foxtrot
2) Seth Landers & Carly Mccreary
6) Makenna Reilly & Maya Harris

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
2) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
6) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu

Syllabus VWaltz
2) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Ben Helman & Eugenie Lai
4) Sylvia Zhang & Dylan Evans
5) Kimaya Rangasamy & Melinda Reyneke
6) Elisabeth Bullock & Josefina Correa-Menendez
8) Moksh Garg & Herissa Lamothe

Rumba
2) Ben Helman & Eugenie Lai
3) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange
4) Sylvia Zhang & Dylan Evans
5) Kimaya Rangasamy & Melinda Reyneke
6) Elisabeth Bullock & Josefina Correa-Menendez
7) Moksh Garg & Herissa Lamothe
8) Thomas Deucher & Cara Fagerholm

Jive
1) Ben Helman & Eugenie Lai
2) Kendall Nakai & Jane Lange
7) Kimaya Rangasamy & Melinda Reyneke

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
3) Dennis Talavera & Elaine Liang
4) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Samba
1) Dennis Talavera & Elaine Liang
4) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina

Jive
4) Anne Reidenbach & Tatiana Estrina
7) Dennis Talavera & Elaine Liang

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
6) Michael Morton & Kateryna Morhun

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at BU on Sunday 12/08. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

The three rookie couples who competed did very well with Hector Chaires and Cecelia Raia making 7 of the 8 newcomer finals and Miles Silva and Anne Reidenbach making the finals in all 8 of the newcomer events. Special kudos to Makenna Reilly and Eleanor Murphy who won every newcomer event and making finals in the two bronze events they competed in, placing 5th in Bronze Jive and 2nd in Bronze Waltz/Quickstep!

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia
7) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
8) 45 Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Bronze
Foxtrot
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Waltz/Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver

V Waltz
6) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/VWaltz
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
5) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
6) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

PreChamp
4) James Diao & Gloria Wu

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
4) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
6) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) 140 Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) 185 Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
6) 122 Miles Silva & Xu Guo
7) 191 Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Tango
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
2) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Tango/Foxtrot
5) Taehwan Shin & Julia Bowers

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
1) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan
4) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
6) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu

Syllabus VWaltz
2) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan
3) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
4) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

PreChamp
6) James Diao & Gloria Wu

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
5) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba
1) Haoran Li & Liyang Yang
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
6) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Jive
5) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris
8) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
3) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
8) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan

Samba/Jive
2) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
7) Jack Zhao & Hannah Skye Dunnigan

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
1) Takara Truong & Cindy Jie
2) Michael Morton & Kateryna Morhun
3) Jeremy Bai & Annie Zheng

Rhythm

Newcomer

Rumba
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Swing
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Miles Silva & Anne Reidenbach
6) Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Tufts on Saturday 11/23. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
3) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
4) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
8) 45 Hector Chaires & Cecilia Raia

Foxtrot
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
3) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
4) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach

Bronze
Foxtrot
7) Ritam Nag & Alyssa Solomon

Waltz/Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Tango
1) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Foxtrot
1) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

V Waltz
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/VWaltz
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
6) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

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Newcomer
Waltz
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
4) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova
6) Miles Silva & Xu Guo

Tango
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
3) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
4) 140 Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach
5) 185 Edan Orzech & Sylvia Zhang
6) 122 Miles Silva & Xu Guo
7) 191 Michael Chen & Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
6) Haoran Li & Heyi Li

Tango
4) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu
5) Max Tenenbaum & Maya Harris

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep
4) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma

Tango
2) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma
4) Nick Ning & Sophie Logsdon

Foxtrot
2) Owen Carmody & Dipti Sharma
4) Nick Ning & Sophie Logsdon

Gold
Waltz/Tango/Foxtrot/Quickstep
2) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
5) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

Syllabus VWaltz
2) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang
3) Daniel Stein & Doris Fu
4) Hung-En Li & Nerine Uyanik

Latin

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
5) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba
2) Haoran Li & Liyang Yang
7) Franziska Klingenberg & Sophie Liu

Silver
Cha Cha/Rumba
1) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
2) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Samba
1) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
2) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
7) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Jive
1) Courtney Delmonico & Kateryna Morhun
3) Allen Baranov & Julie Steele
4) Chris Womack & Margaret Wang

Gold
Cha Cha/Samba/Rumba/Jive
3) Takara Truong & Cindy Jie

Newcomer
Cha Cha
1) Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
2) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
3) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy

Rumba
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
4) 390 Abraham Lemaitre & Sehar Lohawala
5) 144 Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang

Swing
1) Makenna Reilly & Eleanor Murphy
2) Haoran Li & Naiqi Zhang
3) Zachary Pracher & Anne Reidenbach

Here is a list of the MITBDT dancers who placed into finals at Harvard Beginners on Sunday 10/14. Congratulations to everyone who competed!

Special congratulations to Max Tenenbaum and Dominique Dang who won all of the bronze standard events, Lilymoon Whalen and Hongyi Zhou who won all of the bronse latin and rhythm events.

MIT also won the top three places in the rookie vet team match (only the top three spots were reported).

The rookies had a fantastic first comp, placing 6 of the 7 finalists in newcomer international rumba, the top 5 in swing and sweeping the finals for international waltz and American foxtrot. We also had 9 rookie couples in the semifinals for rumba and 10 for swing, waltz and foxtrot.

Harvard Beginners; 2024

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Newcomer
Foxtrot (6 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 36 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Ben Feng/Ebru Ermis
4. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
5. Yuming Shu/Guo Xu
6. Abraham Lemaitre/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Waltz/Tango (20 registered couples)
5. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Foxtrot (19 registered couples)
4. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Waltz/Tango (23 couples)
6. Henry Tran/Ava Knickerbocker (? Columbia)

Foxtrot/Viennese waltz (21 couples)
5. Henry Tran/Ava Knickerbocker (? Columbia)

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Newcomer
Waltz (6 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 38 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
2. Yuming Shu/Guo Xu
3. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
4. Ben Feng/Ebru Ermis
5. Abraham Lemaitre/Sehar Lohawala
6. Kyaw Kyaw Htyn/Zdenka Myslikova

Bronze
Waltz/Quickstep (20 couples)
1. Max Tenenbaum/Dominique Dang
3. Haoran LI/Hongyi Zhou
6. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Tango (17 couples)
1. Max Tenenbaum/Dominque Dang
2. Haoran Li/Hongyi Zhou
4. Linghe Xi/Xin Zhang
5. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon

Silver
Waltz/Quickstep (19 couples)
5. Henry Tran/Ge Zhu (? Columbia)

Tango/Foxtrot (15 couples)
4. Henry Tran/Ge Zhu (? Columbia)

Rhythm

Newcomer
Swing (7 couple final, 11 MIT couples, 36 registered couples, 10 MIT semifinalists)
1. Julie Steele/Emily Berkemeyer
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
4. Zachary Pracher/Anne Reidenbach
5. Abraham Lemaire/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba (21 couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
6. Xin Zhang/Linghe Xi

Swing (20 couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
7. Xin Zhang/Linghe Xi

Silver
Swing/Mambo (19 couples)
5. Henry Tran/ James Stephens (? Columbia)

Latin

Newcomer
Rumba (7 couple final, 12 MIT couples, 34 registered couples, 9 MIT semifinalists)
1. Julie Steele/Emily Berkemeyer
2. Makenna Reilly/Eleanor Murphy
3. Zachary Pracher/Anne Xeidenbach
4. Michael Chen/Franziska Klingenberg
5. Edan Orzech/Sylvia Zhang
7. Abraham Lemaire/Sehar Lohawala

Bronze
Cha Cha/Rumba (14 registered couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
4. Ritam Nag/Alyssa Solomon
5. Xi Zhang/Linghe Xi

Jive (12 registered couples)
1. Lilymoon Whalen/Hongyi Zhou
7. Xi Zhang/Linghe Xi

Silver
Cha cha/Rumba (24 couples)
1. Josh DeBare (WPI)/Emma Montgomery
2. Henry Tran/ Yufei Chen (? Columbia)

Samba/Jive (25 couples)
3. Henry Tran/ Yufei Chen (? Columbia)
4. Josh DeBare (WPI)/Emma Montgomery

Rookie Vet Team Match (only top 3 places announced, 7 teams, 4 1/4 teams from MIT)
1. MIT team 5
2. MIT team 7
3. MIT team 4

The MIT team had a strong showing at Tufts 2022, held at the Joyce Cummings center on the Tufts campus.  Special kudos to the rookies – every rookie made multiple finals!