From April 8–11, swaths of college dance teams from around the country gathered in Daytona Beach, FL, for the National Dance Association’s 2026 College National Championships. This year, the NDA added a new division for teams associated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and it continued its 2025 addition of the Grand Champions […]
Over the weekend, college dance teams from around the country gathered in Daytona, FL, to attend the National Dance Association’s 2025 College National Championships. And this year, for the first time, division winners competed in a showdown for the title of Grand Champion in each style. Teams competed in five divisions (1, 1A, II, III, […]
With the excitement of January’s Universal Dance Association (UDA) College Nationals dying down, dancers won’t have to wait long for their next obsession: National Dance Alliance (NDA) College Nationals are just around the corner. This year they’ll take place April 9–13 in Daytona, FL. Ever wonder what separates these two collegiate national championships, or what […]
Performing for any audience is jitter-inducing enough. But how about an audience of 100,000 rowdy game-day spectators? Dance teamers face unique pressures in their highly unpredictable performance environments, and inevitably, things go awry. We asked dancers and coaches from four champion teams to share some of their most embarrassing stories—and how they recovered like the […]
The BYU Cougarettes after winning the 2012 Division IA Hip Hop Championship with a score of 9.984! This week, dance teams from across the country will head to Daytona Beach, FL, to compete at the 2013 National Dance Alliance Collegiate Dance Team Championship. They’ve been rehearsing like crazy for months and will finally get to […]
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