Lizzie Nabney
President
Lizzie is from Birmingham, UK and hopes to graduate someday with a PhD in Ancient Greek. In her free time she enjoys reading long novels and walking in the Arb.
Role: The President is ultimately responsible for overseeing all team operations, as well as long-term planning for the growth and improvement of the team. He or she is responsible for overseeing the timely execution of all team operations and making sure all other officers are fulfilling their responsibilities. The President leads board meetings and ensures the smooth functioning of team events. He or she briefs board members on the upcoming events and allocates tasks accordingly. The president acts as a consultant for all board members, is responsible for training new board members, and maintaining strong relations with our coaches, DTS, the CCRB, and leaders in the greater Midwest Ballroom Community (other collegiate teams, organizers at OSB, Arnold). The President is ultimately responsible for a smooth transition to the successive board. The President also serves as the “Team Liaison” on the Ballroom Club board.
Eligibility: At least one year on executive board, and member of the A/B team at time of running.
Corey Flynn
Home Comp Coordinator
Corey is from West Bloomfield, Michigan studying movement science and minoring in biochemistry. Corey works in a cellular & developmental biology lab and is a study group facilitator for Orgo II and General chemistry. Outside of ballroom she enjoys doing yoga, drinking coffee, and spending time with her two dogs and two cats when she is home.
Role: The Home Comp Coordinator is responsible for running Michcomp.
Eligibility: At least one year on executive board, and member of the A/B team at time of running.
Natalie Fox
Away competition chair
Natalie is from Shelby, Michigan and is currently a junior studying architecture. When she isn’t in either the dance studio or architecture studio, Natalie enjoys baking, binging Netflix, and taking pictures.
Role: The Away Competition Chair is responsible for promoting upcoming competitions and making attending competitions as easy as possible. This includes organizing accommodations and carpools prior to the competition. Away comp chair is responsible for accurately forecasting (possibly through polls) attendance at competitions weeks or even a month in advance in order to identify housing options. The chair is responsible for ensuring enough transportation – including members’ cars, reserving UM vans well in advance before they are all taken up, renting cars if need be. The away comp chair works with other teams’ home comp coordinators to ensure maximum rooms are made available for our members attending and, at last resort, reserves hotels. The chair works with the Treasurer to assure fairness in travel costs. Finally, for OSB/Arnold, the Away Comp chair works closely with Susan McFerran to ensure adequate rooms at the Drury Inn and Crown Plaza are obtained through the competition organizers.
Eligibility: Current member of A/B/C team
Colin Palacios-Rolston
Treasurer
Colin is a senior in chemical engineering from West Palm Beach, Florida. He works in a microfluidics lab at the NCRC, and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in molecular engineering after graduation. When he’s not studying or dancing, you can find him listening to music and reading a good book.
Role: The Treasurer is responsible for balancing the team’s accounts and manages payments for team incurred costs. He or she also collects dues from team members as well as registration money for the Michigan Ballroom Competition. Over the course of the semester, the Treasurer tracks balances for every member and ensures members have paid their accumulated balances.
Eligibility: Current member of A/B/C team
Meagan Sindone
Technology Chair
Meagan is from Trenton, Michigan and majoring in Computer Science Engineering. She enjoys soft blankets, flowers, cheese bread, and finding different ways to feed her creativity. When she’s not dancing, she’s cooking or on her laptop.
Role: The Technology Chair is responsible for all technology-related issues of the team. He or she updates and maintains the webpage and the e-mail lists, including newcomer registration, Michigan competition registration, apparel, PayPal payment buttons, and donations. For OSB, MichComp, and Arnold, the Tech Chair is responsible for the video taping of dancing and making the videos available for team members to view.
Eligibility: Currently in at least second semester on the team. Website expertise strongly encouraged. Coding expertise is helpful.
Recruitment chair
Can Carlak
Can is from Ankara, Turkey and pursuing a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Aside from shaking some hips, he enjoys singing, playing guitar and traveling around the world
Role: The Recruitment Chair helps newcomers have a smooth transition as they join the team. He or she has an intimate relationship with newcomer couples and addresses any of their concerns, both individually and as a group. The Recruitment chair is responsible for the advertising of the team during the Fall and Winter semester recruitment seasons, including but not limited to distribution of flyers, Festifall, and Winterfest. The Recruitment Chair is present at all beginner lessons on Saturday and helps newcomers bring together partnerships and prepare for competitions. He or she handles general e-mail inquiries addressed to the team (e.g. newcomer questions).
Eligibility: Current member of A/B/C team
Madeline Treber
Curriculum Chair
Madeline Treber is from Saline, Michigan and majoring in Elementary Education. She enjoys drinking coffee, fashion, and dancing in any spare time she has. Madeline saw her first ballroom competition as a middle schooler at Mich Comp many years ago, so she is happy to have everything come full circle.
Role: The Curriculum Chair is in charge of lesson scheduling (A,B,C and Pre-C) as well as setting up the DTS teaching schedule. The curriculum chair will also be in charge of the fall and winter team workshop should there be interest in holding them. The curriculum chair is also in charge of finding student teachers and practices supervisors when and if appropriate.
Eligibility: Current member of A/B/C team.
Jing Zhang
public relations Chair
Jing is a junior from New York City, double majoring in Anthropology and Biology, Health, & Society. She works in a hematology-oncology lab. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, shopping, drinking tea, and going to musicals.
Role: The Public Relations Chair serves as the liaison between the team and other organizations. He or she handles requests for the team to do showcase performances or teach lessons. He or she works with in conjunction with the President and Recruitment Chair on welcome week events and distributing flyers at the beginning of each semester. Prior to the U of M competition, he or she aids the competition committee with canvassing. This person is also in charge of scheduling team parties and organizing apparel orders. The PR chair is also responsible for planning team social events. The PR chair should maintain a steady stream of social events through the semester, offering a wide variety of opportunities for team members to socialize.
Eligibility: Current member of A/B/C/Pre-C team.
Grace Kraimer
practice space coordinator
Grace is a junior studying International Norms, Security, and Cooperation while minoring in the History of Law and Policy. She is also in the ceramics club, waterski team, and pre-law club, and she loves talking to strangers about their different interests. Grace has a big crush on sleep, and is happiest when her friends are. The love of Grace’s life is her kitty, Catsanova, and her apartment is open for anybody who wants to hug him.
Role: The Practice Space Coordinator is responsible for all of the team’s practice space, including but not limited to: DTS, the CCRB, and the Michigan Union/League. The most important job for this position is to maintain a healthy relationship between the team and the Crabtree family (owners of DTS) and the people in charge of any other practice spaces. He or she is normally required to oversee cleaning and close DTS two nights per week, with another board member closing the other two nights. He or she is also responsible for reserving space at the CCRB, Union or League, and anywhere else desired. The Practice Space Coordinator also ensures that the key elements of our relationship with DTS are satisfied, such as scheduling a “DTS day” to fix up the practice studio and help provide team member volunteers for the annual recital.
Eligibility: Currently in at least second semester on the team.