Adult Ballroom and Latin Qualifying 2008/09
19th October 2008 : Haywards Heath
Match Report
By Peter Normand
Perhaps it is a measure of how far Wright Rhythm has come over the last year and hence had higher expectations or perhaps it was the people I happened to be talking to at the event but, to me, this year's adult qualifying seemed like the toughest ever and a number of dancers who I would have expected to qualify with flying colours, sadly, did not make the cut. However when you just look at the statistics it was, in fact, a very sucessful day -
- We have taken one more qualifying place than last year - 58, to set yet another Wright Rhythm record.
- We were once again the South East Premier Ballroom Cup with a runaway victory including 9 wins!
- We were once again second in the South East Premier Latin Cup.
However, there were some significant 'casualties' in the qualifying events and it was undoubtedly a very tough year so all the more congratulations must go to those who did qualify and to those who gained reserve places.
The Wright Rhythm adult team for the Nationwide IDTA Ballroom and Latin American Finals in Blackpool next April will be:
- Katia Pazienza
- Lizzie Henderson
- Tania Pazienza
- Alex Cane
- Jamie Scrivener
- Jemma Stripling
- Rebecca Woolnough
- Thee Karavasili
- Chris Williams
- Connor McCabe
- Kyle Magee
- Becky Emmott
- Jo Martin
- Kim Curry
- Laura Klysz
- Liesa Fallowfield
- Sonia Pazienza
- Adam Wojcik
- Andy Normand
- Lee Boocock
- Pete Normand
- Russell Mathews
- Steve Paine
- Amanda Bromfield
- Sylvia Magee
- Glen Magee
- Howard Lewis
- Rob Wimble
- Steve Elsbury
- Debbie Clarke
- Gillian Lewis
- Laurie Ardeman
- Antony Ardeman
- John Sneath
- Rafiq Ahmed