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Competition Results

Murray Academy Returns to International Competition at 2022 World Championships! – Belfast, Northern Ireland

Congratulations to our 24 qualifiers for their performances at this year’s World Championships in Belfast! Special congratulations to Brielle Maguire for bringing home the 5th place globe in U11 Girls competition, to Brigid O’Connor and Fiona Marino for their World Medals, and to Delaney Guy, Maeve Marino, Abby Hayes, Ava Krueger, Chloe Bosma, and Maggie Krein on their recall medals!

In addition to the 9 receiving individual solo medals, we had another 6 dancers placing in the top half of their competitions and earning the chance to compete in Day 2 competitions. We are SO proud of our results and of our dancers as always, but we’re especially proud of how they worked hard and kept each other motivated through the three years since the last World Championships were held.

To see our complete list of results, click here, and click on post title above to see complete post with photo gallery.

Murray Academy Returns to New England Oireachtas! – Hartford, CT

The New England Regional Championships returned to Hartford after a pause for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 77 of our dancers attended.  We are very proud of all our talented dancers who worked so hard throughout the pandemic and took the stage both enthusiastically and well-prepared! Congratulations to each and every dancer who represented the Murray Academy at this event!

We are especially proud to have qualified a total of 24 girls to dance at the World Championships in Belfast next April.  Our dancers achieved a 91% recall rate for Open champions and a 64% recall rate for all soloists.  Within our recallers, 32% were in top 5; 55% in the Top 10; and 45% qualified for Worlds—amazing!  And of our 18 traditional set dancers, we had 67% receive an award. Way to go team Murray! So very proud!!  

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Back with a Bang!! Murray Academy finishes strong at 2021 US National Irish Dance Championships! – Phoenix, AZ

This long anticipated event did not disappoint for the championship dancers of Murray Academy. The US National Irish Dance Championships was the first major event in which they could participate since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, and they danced without missing a beat. We are proud of all our amazing dancers who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and who took the stage with great confidence and skill!

The hard work resulted in many personal bests and an amazing record overall for our school.  91% of our Open champions earned a recall medal, while 48% qualified for the World Championships to be held in Belfast, Ireland in March 2022—our highest percentages at a national level ever.  We also are proud to report that 18% of our Open Champions were in the top 5; 39% were in the top 10; and 61% were in the top 20 out of competitions with 100-140 dancers. We also had 6 of our 8 prelim dancers recall in the prelim competition, 2 of whom were in the top 5 of the prelim results!  Congratulations to these dancers on their placements and to all our dancers on the Nationals team—you’ve made us SO proud! 

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