{"id":10790,"date":"2013-01-24T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:46:11","slug":"dance-team-hip-hops-to-top-10-finish-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/dance-team-hip-hops-to-top-10-finish-at-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Team earns top-10 finish at nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauathletics.com\/sports\/dance\/2012-13\/releases\/20130123fh3oq3\">dance team finished sixth<\/a> in Division 1 Hip Hop at the 2013 Dance Team National Championships last weekend at Orlando\u2019s Walt Disney World Resort. The team also placed fourth in the World University Dance Team Hip Hop competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixth place is a great finish for Division 1 dance, so we are really excited and I am very proud of their work,\u201d said NAU dance coach <strong>Cassie Laughlin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really exciting and quite the accomplishment,\u201d said senior dancer <strong>Roshelle Shultz<\/strong>. \u201cLooking at how far we have come from years past, we could not believe we finished in the top 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once on stage, the squad was given two minutes to dance on national television and in front of the hundreds of schools that came to compete. Still, the dozens of cameras, hundreds of spectators, and the bright lights were not enough to intimidate the well-experienced dance team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we step onto the national floor the feeling becomes surreal,\u201d Shultz said. \u201cThe place is packed with people with everyone watching you in that moment, and when your adrenaline kicks in, it becomes exciting to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 World University Cheerleading Championships<\/strong><br \/>\nDance Team Hip Hop<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Louisiana State University<br \/>\n2. University of Memphis<br \/>\n3. University of Puerto Rico-Bayamon<br \/>\n<b>4. Northern Arizona University<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong> 2013 College Dance Team Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Division I Hip Hop<br \/>\n1. Hofstra University<br \/>\n2. Southeastern Louisiana University<br \/>\n3. Saint Joseph&#8217;s University<br \/>\n4. University of Delaware<br \/>\n5. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<br \/>\n<b>6. Northern Arizona University<br \/>\n<\/b>7. Missouri State University<br \/>\n8. St Johns University<br \/>\n9. University of California-Santa Barbara<\/p>\n<p>Watch the team&#8217;s performances by searching for Northern Arizona University on the event\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com\/event\/1689\/2013_uca_uda_college#.UQAZYD3yiCE.gmail \">website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/dance-team-hip-hops-to-top-10-finish-at-nationals\/\">NAU\u2019s dance team finished sixth in Division 1 Hip Hop at the 2013 Dance Team National Championships last weekend at Orlando\u2019s Walt Disney World Resort. The team also placed fourth in the World University Dance Team Hip Hop competition. \u201cSixth place is a great finish for Division 1 dance, so we are really excited and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":10809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}