Coaches
Gina TerrellHead Coach
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Ginger DavisAssistant Coach
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Captains & Officers
Brian KhongBoys Captain
Ashley RomrellGirls Captain
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Seniors
Kaitlynn Denison
Emma Powell
Brogen Astle
Gabriella Smith |
(Senior, First Year)
Kaitlynn has been dancing since before she can remember. She’s spent fifteen years training in ballet as well as tap and jazz including five years dancing on pointe. Recently she has discovered ballroom and is excited to be on the team. These past two years she has enjoyed being a student choreographer for the musicals at Elk Ridge Middle School. After high school, Kaitlynn hopes to attend UVU and pursue a degree in finances. When she’s not dancing, Kaitlynn is singing with the rest of the Bingham Madrigals, attending school, playing the piano, laughing with her friends, or goofing off with her younger brothers all while holding a job. Kaitlynn would like to thank her Mom, Dad, and four brothers for their unconditional love and support, as well as letting her use the kitchen as her personal stage. Senior, 1st year member Emma is super excited to be on the ballroom team this year. When she was younger, Emma took lyrical, jazz, ballet, and tap classes, moving away from that, she has now taken 3 years of social ballroom. Besides dance, Emma is super involved with the technical side of theater. She has done stage tech for 6 years now and is a proud Historian and Tech Manager for the Bingham Theater Co. Looking forward Emma hopes to attend college for theatrical design while continuing to dance. She is thankful for her friends, family, pets, and the teachers that helped her get to where she is today.
Brogen Astle (Senior, 1st year) Brogen is the middle child of his family in between two sisters. He has always loved woodworking and making things with his hands and has been doing it for longer than he can remember. Along with woodworking, he has added a good number of useful and other not-so-useful-but-fun skills to his repertoire as well. Some examples include welding, expert toast making, breaking apples in half with his hands, cooking and baking, automotive work, and last but not least the ability to quote almost any movie he’s ever seen at any time. When he’s not doing any of these things it’s a safe bet that you can find him in a quiet place reading, working on something out in the shop, or just sitting texting with or talking to his friends. Somewhere along the line last year, while taking the Social Ballroom classes, Brogen discovered he really enjoyed and was actually halfway decent at this whole ballroom thing and decided to try out for the team. He feels super blessed to have made it onto the team and has loved the new friendships he’s made and the great exercise practice is. After high school Brogen is going to serve a mission for his church, then find a career to keep money coming in while he either starts his own business or finds somewhere he’ll truly love working. He’d like to thank his family for always being excited when he tells them about a new dance and always encouraging him, he’d also like to thank all the other members of the team for making him feel welcome. And finally thank you for reading all this. Hopefully you smiled and laughed once or twice. Gabbie Smith has been dancing since she was seven years old. She started her dance career at Gravity Dance Center practicing hip-hop, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, modern, jazz, tumbling, and tap. She has also danced at numerous dance conventions as well as Millenium Dance Complex. Her sophomore here she started dancing at Empower Dance Academy where she improved tremendously. This is her first year on Bingham Ballroom Team and she is so excited to compete and learn more about ballroom. She is also a second year member on Dance Company. She is considering going to University of Oregon and trying out for Oregon Dance Team. She would like to thank her mom, Angie Koon for supporting her in dance throughout her life.
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Juniors
Rebeca Rios
Boston Pond
Ashley Miller
Cade Poulter
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Rebeca Rios (Junior, 2nd Year Member)
Rebeca is the youngest of five children in her family. She began dancing at the age of four and for 12 years she has dedicated her time to and effort to dance. She has trained in many styles including Tap, Lyrical, Contemporary, Cecchetti Ballet, and Mexican Folkloric Ballet. She enjoys traveling, playing the piano, paddle boarding, laughing with friends, and singing in choir. Rebeca was first introduced to ballroom dancing at the age of twelve when she participated in the musical Crazy For You. She loved the new style of dance and ever since then Rebeca has been eagerly waiting to audition for Bingham’s Ballroom Team. She cannot express how honored she feels to be a part of the BBT family, and what a privilege it is to dance with the members. She wishes to thank Gina, Ginger, Trisha Wilstead, and her instructors at RMD for the patience, courage, and support they have given her. ***Big shout out to my astonishing mama for sacrificing her sleep to take me to 6AM practice, and for all the hugs that have made everything better<3 Boston Pond is again a member of the ballroom team! He is a junior and is so glad to be around his favorite people every morning for ballroom. He enjoys singing, dancing, swimming, and making people laugh. He’s been fascinated with ballroom from a very young age because his mom was on the ballroom team for BYU, and he is so glad he gave it a try. He wants to thank his friends and family for supporting him through everything! Ashley Miller (Junior, 2nd year member) Ashley started dancing when she was four years old and has loved it ever since. She has trained in ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, hip hop, and tap at Canyon View Arts Center. She has also performed in numerous productions with South Pointe Ballet. Ashley enjoys spending time with family and friends and going to Swig. She is so grateful to be part of Bingham Ballroom Team, and for all the opportunities, memories, and friendships it has given her. She would like to thank her amazing parents for supporting her through everything she does. She would also like to think her amazing dance teachers and coaches Andrea Edwards, Gina Terrell, and Ginger Weber, for pushing her to be the dancer and person she is today. Cade is super excited to be on his second year of Bingham Ballroom team! Cade is a junior at Bingham. He loves performing, including being on Madrigals and the Improv team. He loves being in plays and musicals and he loves spending time with his friends. He would like to thank all the officers for all they've done for the team this year, as well as Ginger and especially Gina for everything they've done for the team. He would also like to thank his parents for all their support in everything he does, as well as some of his closest friends and two of the most important people in his life, Natalie and Boston. Lastly, he'd like to thank everyone on the ballroom team for being such hard workers and amazing friends and giving him a good reason to go to practice at 6 every morning. Go BBT! |
Sophomores
Grace Holmgren
Nixon Pond
Zoey Powell |
(Sophomore, First Year Member)
This is the first Grace has done ballroom and she is loving it. Grace has danced for 9 years, 7 of those competitively at a studio in West Jordan. She danced competitively in jazz, contemporary, and hip hop. Ballroom has proven to be a cool way to let her see a different style of dance than what she’s used to. Grace also enjoys swimming, singing, doing art, and hanging out with friends. She also loves to travel to fun destinations with her family. Grace is the person that always likes to do something fun, just like her mom. There are some people that Grace would like to thank, her mom and dad. If they weren’t willing to help her out with everything, she wouldn’t be able to have as much fun with all the things she can do in life. Grace is also thankful for all the seniors that are so helpful to drive her to and from the performance. As a sophomore it’s great to have seniors and parents that are so willing to help. Grace is so grateful that she is on this team and has the opportunity to all this happiness. I am a sophmore and my first year on the Ballroom team. I love my team, they are the best people, not only amazing dancers but also great friends. I love learning new dances and working hard. I have watched my big brother on BBT and I knew I wanted to be on the team too. I look up to Boston in so many ways. I'd like to think I've had a lifetime of training in ballroom because my mom was a ballroom dancer and would always talk about how much fun it is. She strongly encouraged and supports Boston and myself to be on the ballroom team. I like playing basketball, soccer and being with my friends. Zoey has had a blast on the ballroom team. Her favorite dance was the Spooky Skeleton Waltz or the Jingle Bells Christmas Lindy Hop. In her early years, she has done hip hop, ballet, and several years of jazz dancing and singing. At Hawthorn Academy, she did elementary ballroom for two year and in middle school took Dance 1 and 2. My hobby is reading and writing and my favorite things are dogs, dance, and karate. My dance teacher Ms. Tyhurst inspired my love of ballroom dance and the bingham ballroom team has made my love for it grow. My family has always been supportive of me. My friend and brother also took me to early morning practices before I got my license and I will always be grateful for that. |
