{"id":3035,"date":"2017-03-16T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:46:29","slug":"freddy-ball-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/freddy-ball-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddy Ball 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2017\/03\/Freddy-Ball-Brandon-Dance-Studio-Feb-2017.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3036\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2017\/03\/Freddy-Ball-Brandon-Dance-Studio-Feb-2017-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Freddy Ball - Brandon Dance Studio - Feb 2017\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3036\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 15px 0 0\" \/><\/a>Even though we like to think of dancing as fun and relaxing, we do get a little competitive now and then.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoy winning! And we enjoy winning at things we\u2019re good at. So we had an especially wonderful time at the Freddy Ball and we came home with some hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Ball is a regional competition, team match and awards banquet held annually on a Friday-Saturday in early February. This year it was Feb. 3-4 at the Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park. Brandon was Team Blue in the team match and earned several prestigious awards.<\/p>\n<p>How about a hurrah and a huzzah for our winners and nominees:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kelle Chancellor, owner<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Top Female Instructor, 2016 Freddy Award<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David Chancellor, owner<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Top Male Instructor, 2016 Freddy Award; Most Guests; Most Competition Entries<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Laura Ashley, dance instructor<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Rookie of the Year<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FADS Brandon<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Runner-up studio in the Tampa Bay region<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Michael and Joanna Kellogg<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 Top Amateur Competitive Couple<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Swartz<\/em> <\/strong>\u2013 Top Male Competitor<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s also have a hand for our worthy nominees:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Barbara Jones; Lisa and Jody Rhoden; Roma Gopico; Mike Celis; Terraell Hazlett; Ali Beach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a great time at the Freddy Ball and we hope more of you will want to join us in competition \u2013 or as cheerleaders in the seats \u2013 at the next one.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud of our achievements and our achievers, and you should be too!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we like to think of dancing as fun and relaxing, we do get a little competitive now and then. We enjoy winning! And we enjoy winning at things we\u2019re good at. So we had an especially wonderful time at the Freddy Ball and we came home with some hardware. Freddy Ball is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-dance-info-news-trends"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/brandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}