DANCE TEAM

Current Roster

Name	Year	Name	Year
Brittany Audley	Freshman	Robyn Kalpener	Sophomore
Erin Augsbach	Freshman	Sasha Khotimskaya	Freshman
Melvina Blake	Junior	Krystina Lewandowski	Sophomore
Courtney Blankenship	Freshman	Lauren Luft	Sophomore
Ariann Broecker	Junior	Nicole Rodriques	Freshman
Daria Carpenito	Freshman	Tara Russo - Captain	Senior
Jamie Chai	Sophomore	Veronica Scorcia	Freshman
Kaitlyn Cozier	Freshman	Jennifer Sullivan - Secretary	Junior
Christina Domanico	Sophomore	Maria Tama	Sophomore
Lauren Gentile	Freshman	Jeanine Temperini - Co Captain	Senior

For the second consecutive year, the Stony Brook University Dance Team received a bid to participate in the National Dance Alliance Cheer and Dance Collegiate Championship that took place in April. The squad's invitation to this prestigious national competition was based on a video entry that featured jazz, pom and funk routines, as well as various technical dance skills. The selection committee recognized the team's talent, hard work and school spirit with an invitation to represent Stony Brook at the event.

Stony Brook was one of 22 teams competing in the Dance Division I category, including national champions Towson University, Harvard University and Colombia University. 43 other teams competed in the Division IA and Division II categories, including NYU, Duke, Ohio State and Rutgers University. The 13-member team traveled to Daytona Beach, Fla., for the championships and brought national recognition to New York and Stony Brook University with a 16th place finish and a 5th place showing during the Challenge Cup!

The Stony Brook Dance Team's mission statement is to promote and uphold team spirit for all Stony Brook Seawolves athletic teams and the student body. It is also the purpose of the team to promote good sportsmanship, to support good relations in the community and between teams and squads during events. The team goal is to work in harmony with the school administration, other athletic teams, sporting organizations, to be a credit to and bring recognition to Stony Brook University.

The Stony Brook Dance Team is funded by the Stony Brook Undergraduate Student Government-Polity and Athletics Department. Our advisor is Eric George; our captain is Tara Russo and our co-captain is Jeanine Temperini. If you would like additional information about the team please e-mail us at sbudanceteam@hotmail.com.

Try Outs: The SBU Dance Team will be holding auditions September 2-4, 2008 in the Sports Complex. The first two dates will practice sessions to learn the try-out routine and will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Final auditions will be held on September 4 at 7:30 p.m. .