WIDA Eastern USA Oireachtas Results Are Officially In!

Shelagh Mcgovern

AMAZING Results for McGovern Irish Dance at the WIDA Eastern USA Oireachtas!

On November 13, McGovern Irish Dance travlled to Toledo OH to participate in the WIDA Eastern USA Oireachtas. It was a fabulous event that ran smoothly. Our dancers had great fun meeting new friends and spending time together doing what they love. Thank you to the organizers and volunteers who worked so hard to make this an amazing event for all of the dancers. We are all so fotunate to be in an Open Platform organization where we can step out of our comfort zone and get to meet and dance with dancers from some many other organizations.

It's no surprise to anyone in the MID family at how well our dancers performed at this event. Our dancers put a lot of hours inside and outside of the studio learning and perfecting new material for this event. We worked on technique and stamina, mental outlook and focus and added new material to their repertoire and our dancers did not disappoint!

We had 3 dancers that competed LIVE for the very first time and between the 3 of them brought home7 awards! Congratualtions to Levi Bigalke, Annie Rose Cooper and Torrie Ausban, you 3 are really going places!

At the end of the day, 32 of our McGovern Irish Dance members brought home a total of

134 Awards
38 First Places
22 dances leveled out

Special Congratulations to our FIRST PLACE Beginner Winners

1st Place Beginners
Levi Bigalke U8 Reel (also his FIRST FEIS, Levi is allusive and kind of shy and I had a hard time getting a picture of him)
Gavin Bigalke U9 Light JIg & Single Jig
Makayla Creed U15 Traditional Set (St. Patrick's Day)

I am so proud of Torrie! She was so nervous to do this event and was so succuessful! A HUGE congrats to Torrie Ausban who competed in her VERY FIRST LIVE competition and won first and LEVELED up in ALL of the dances in which she competed.

O10 Reel
O9 Light Jig
U17 Slip Jig
U17 Single JIg

Torrie also gets to move up in her U17 Hornpipe where she won 2nd place as there were enough dancers in the competition to allow her to move up!

Beginner Premierships
Dancers competed with their Reel and LIght Jig and then their scores were avereged. If there were 5 or more dancers in their competition and they won 1st place, the get to level out of BOTH dances!

Under 9

1st Place Bronson Whittaker (Bronson levels up in both Reel and Light Jig)
2nd Place Willow McBride

Under 11

1st Place Emily Lambert (Emily levels up in both Reel and LIght Jig)
2nd Place Viviana Anderson

11+

1st Place Torrie Ausban
2nd Place Makayal Creed
4th Place Elorah Whittaker

I would also like to recognize our youngest dancer and FIRST time ever competitor, as well as all around cutie Annie Rose who got 2nd place in her Beginner Reel!

Special Congratulations to our FIRST PLACE Primary Winners

1st Place Primary Awards:
Gavin Bigalke U9 Slip Jig
Luxie McGovern U12 Light JIg and Reel
Chloe Kepner 12+ Reel, Light Jig, U13 Hornpipe
Katie Dill 12+ Slip Jig

Primary Premierships
Dancers competed with their Reel and LIght Jig and then their scores wiere averaged. If there were 5 or more dancer in their competion and they won 1st place, they get to move up in both dances

Under 10

2nd Place Gavin Bigalke

Under 13

1st Place Lizzie Renfrow (Lizzie levels out of her Reel and LIght Jig)
2nd Place Chloe Kepner
3rd Place Luxie McGovern

13+

2nd Place Clara Evrard
3rd Place Katie Dill
5th Place Alex Renfrow
6th Place Jessica Bigalke

Special Congratulations to our FIRST PLACE Intermediate Winners

1st Place Intermediate Awards:
Vivien Holmes U15 Slip Jig
Eleanor Carpenter 15+ Single Jig, Treble Jig, Hornpipe
Stella Holmes 15+ Slip Jig
Judi Risler 15+ Reel

Intermediate Premierships
Dancers competed with their Reel and Treble Jig and then their scores wiere averaged. If there were 5 or more dancer in their competion and they won 1st place, they get to move up in both dances

Under 11

5th Place Isabella Roberts

15+

1st Place Eleanor Roberts (Eleanor levels out of her Reel and Treble Jig)
2nd Place Stella Holmes
4th Kylee Dickinson
6th Julia Mauk
6th Judi Risler

Special Congratulations to our FIRST PLACE OpenWinners

1st Place Open Awards:
Myca Pearce U14 Reel U14 Slip Jig, U15 Traditional Set
Kaleb Dilger 15+ Traditional Set, Treble Jig, Slip Jig

Open Championship
Dancers competed with their Reel/ Slip JIg, Treble Jig/Hornpipe, a Traditional set and a Contemporary Set. These dances were adjudicated by 3 judges, scores were combined to come up with the winners. This was a fierce competition with MANY incredible dancers from all of the participating schools and I am so proud of our McGovern Irish Dance competitors

Under 13

3rd Place Myca Pearce

Boys 11 - 17

1st Place Kaleb Dilger

31+

3rd Place Jessica Van Deursen

Congratulations to our amazing dancers! Thank you for dancing so beautifully and being so gracious in your wins and graceful in your losses. Your entire dance family is so proud of each and everyone of you!

If you are intersted in becoming a McGovern Irish Dance member, please contact us directly. New classes will be forming soon for our Winter Term which runs from January - April. We have lots of fun events, performances and competitions coming up and we wouldlove to include you in all of the fun!

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