North American Irish Dance Championships boys under 8 and 9 top five

Aidan & Alex Boni, Griffin Wilkins, Patrick Mello, Luca Hu, Braedan Mahoney from Harney (MA) and Declan Meager from Marie Moore (NJ) hanging out at the fountain with Feis America!

Ryan Wexler, Luke Voelkel, Jake Garman, Colm Alba and Matt Garman
from Nashville Irish Step Dancers (TN) sporting their NAN 2011 cheerwear!

Greetings from the 2011 American Irish Dancing Championships in Nashville! Yesterday’s events included solo competitions for Senior Ladies, Girls under 13, Girls under 17, Boys under 8, Boys under 9.

Top Five Results for Boys under 8 and under 9… Congratulations!

Boys under 8:
1-Ronan O’Brien from Anthony Costello (Ireland)
2-Peter Mildrew from Boyle (Southern US)
3-Joey Marino from Rince na Tiarna (NY)
4-Daniel Callahan from Lynn (CT/NY)
5-Declan Mangan from Leneghan (Mid America)

Boys under 9:
1-Collin Mountain from Richens Timm (Mid America)
2-Liam Webber from Mulvihill-Lynch (NY)
3-Jude Flurry from Muggivan (Southern US)
4-Ronan Burke from Shea-Jennings (NY)
5-Jacob Parkman from Harney (MA)

Feis America has been expressly prohibited from publishing real-time results or live commentary, but will post information once results are publicly available. For full results and updates in real-time, visit www.nanationals.net/2011.

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Gabriella Wood from Petri wins sixth North American title

Gabriella Wood from Petri School (NY)
2011 North American Irish Dancing Champion
Ladies under 19

Congratulations to 2011 North American Irish Dancing Champion for Ladies under 19 Gabriella Wood from the Petri School in New York. This is Wood’s SIXTH North American National Irish Dancing Championship (2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010). She is also a two-time World Irish Dancing Champion (2005 and 2009), having won 2nd place in 2011 and 3rd place in 2010. An undefeated Mid-Atlantic Region Champion since she started competing in 2003, Wood also holds the 2007 Great Britain title and the 2005 All Britain championship titles.

Congratulations to the following ladies on their Top Five placement in the Under 19 event Saturday:

2 – Maura Jennings from Broesler (MD/NJ)
3 – Kinsey Brimhall from Comerford (Western U.S.)
4 – Catie Foley from Drake (Southern U.S.)
5 – Ashley Tuccinardi from Lynn (CT)

Feis America has been expressly prohibited from publishing real-time results or live commentary, but will post information once results are publicly available. For full results and updates in real-time, visit www.nanationals.net/2011.

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