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Rachael is a world class Latin champion that has won many titles in her competitive career:<\/b><\/p>\n
–<\/span>Finalist in British Open\u00a0(Blackpool), UK Open, International Open Amateur Championships<\/b><\/p>\n –<\/span>Top 12 in World, British Open, International Open and Asian Open Professional Championships<\/b><\/p>\n –<\/span>15x British Champion\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Rachael started dancing at the age of 5 in Liverpool, England, studying\u00a0ballet,\u00a0tap and\u00a0jazz.\u00a0When she was\u00a08,\u00a0she was introduced to Ballroom and Latin\u00a0and fell in love with it. Two years later,\u00a0she was traveling around the world participating in competitions.<\/b><\/p>\n At the age of 14,\u00a0she was the youngest to ever win the British Open (Blackpool) Junior Championships. In the following months, she became the Italian Open, German Open and Dutch Open Champion. At\u00a016,\u00a0she won the British Open(Blackpool), International and British National Under 21 Championships. At 19, she\u00a0became British National Amateur Champion and finalist of the British Open(Blackpool), International and UK Open Amateur Championships.<\/b><\/p>\n After turning\u00a0professional at 22, Rachael reached the semi-final in the British Open(Blackpool)\u00a0Professional Championships, International Championships, Asian Open and World Championships. She represented Great Britain in the world famous British Open Professional Team Match numerous times and was the British National Professional Champion.<\/b><\/p>\n Since retiring from her\u00a0professional competitive career,\u00a0she has been coaching in the UK, Asia, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Boston. She takes pride in her students’ success. Some of her students’ titles include; British national champions and finalists, UK champions and finalists, USA national finalists and representatives of the UK and USA to the European and World championships.<\/b><\/p>\n She<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>is certified as an adjudicator with the British and World Dance Council.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rachael is a world class Latin champion that has won many titles in her competitive career: –Finalist in British Open\u00a0(Blackpool), UK Open, International Open Amateur Championships –Top 12 in World, British Open, International Open and Asian Open Professional Championships –15x British Champion\u00a0 Rachael started dancing at the age of 5 in Liverpool, England, studying\u00a0ballet,\u00a0tap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/belmont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}