Jersey Girls Dance Team Brings Home National Championship

The Jersey Girls All Star Dance Team represented the East Coast at the National Dance Team Championships February 3 at Walt Disney World, earning their third National title in the Junior Jazz Division. The fourteen member Junior dance team was named the 2017 National Dance Team Junior Jazz Champion for their well-received group performance of “Come Sail Away’, at the packed Field House in the ESPN Complex.

The Jersey Girls also were first runners-up in the Youth Jazz, Senior Pom and Senior Jazz divisions. The 26 member team studies dance at Central Jersey Dance and Gymnastics Center in Middlesex. They are coached by Kristianne Jankowicz, Joann Abbate and Ashley Doyle. For more info on the Jersey Girls, please call 732-560-3555 or visit https://www.facebook.com/jerseygirlsdanceteam/

2017 Team:

Bound Brook: Kaylin Martin

Bridgewater: Amanda Sillib, Caitlyn Sillib, Jeanette Sudzus

Dunellen: Sophia Carlson, Lyndsey Mann, , Grace Young

East Brunswick: Yeri Han

Edison: Madison Grier

Green Brook: Emily Arena, Kelly Wilson

Martinsville: Mary Hands

Middlesex: Annabel Colitti, Isabella Flood, Kate Heulitt, Melanie May, Anne Marie Rudawski

Monroe Twp: Kaitlyn Ury

Piscataway: Alyssa Grigouli, Micaela Holiday

Somerset: Clarissa Miller, Ashlee Sorenson, Mindy Wanagosit, Rachel Wanagosit

South Plainfield: Catherine Pfeiffer, Madelynn Pfeiffer