Congratulations to our amazing dancers who participated in the 2025 New England Region Oireachtas in Providence, RI! We are so proud of the way they shined on stage and of their results which included:

• Six New England Regional champions and six runners-up, with a total of 22 soloists who stood on the podium! Additionally, 24 of our soloists earned the right to compete at the World Championships in Schaumburg, IL this spring!
• One champion and a total of 3 dancers on the podium from our Traditional Set dancers. Additionally, 11 dancers cracked the top 10 of their competitions!
• Five of our teams took the top of the podium as champions with six runners-up and a total of eighteen teams on the podium!!

This was a very exciting year with another strong set of results for our school.  We are so very proud of each of our dancers who worked so hard since August and competed at this year’s New England Oireachtas. It is always a joy seeing their hard work come to life on stage! 

Special congratulations go to all our 1^st place soloists this year, including

• U9 Boys Champion – Ronen Ives (x2)
• U12 Girls Champion—Rowan Wong (x5)
• U13 Girls Champion – Kelsey Lema (x3)
• U14 Girls Champion – Brielle Maguire (x4)
• U15 Girls Champion – Ayla LaFreniere 
• U19 Girls Champion—Fiona Marino (x2)

What a great Oireachtas for the Murray Academy dancers, teachers and families! 

Please see the full solo results summary HERE for all the highlights, including the dancers who are now qualified to compete at the World Championships in Schaumburg at the end of March / beginning of April. 

We are so proud of the 40 soloists (including 7 first timers!) who represented Team Murray at the 2025 NAIDC in Washington, D.C. With 9 in the top 10 and 13 qualified for the 2026 Worlds. Our dancers represented Team Murray so well with such positivity, teamwork, and of course excellent dancing! We were happy to see their hard work pay off on stage! A big thank you to the families and teaching staff who put in loads of time and effort to make this possible for our dancers

Special thanks to Matthew Ferry @ferryacademy and Joanne Kavanagh @joannekavanaghacademy, our workshop teachers, for treating our dancers like your own. We couldn’t do any of this without you!

Find the full list of participating dancers and summary of results here.

We are so proud of how our dancers performed in Dublin at this year’s World Championships!  Each of our dancers performed beautifully and professionally against the best of the best in his or her age group. In many of the age groups there were anywhere from 150-180 competitors. The stages were fantastic and the music couldn’t have been better; it was exciting to see dancers from literally all over the world come together in competition. 

The dancers’ hard work leading up to the event was impressive and inspiring—please join me in extending a huge congratulations to these dancers and their parents, especially to our 4 dancers attending for the first time! Please find this year’s full competition summary here, including our medal winners below.

Top 20 World Medals

12^th Fiona Marino. Ladies 18-19 (2^nd World Medal)
14^th Brielle Maguire, Girls 13-14 (4^th World Medal)

Top 50 Recall Medals

32^nd Shea Wong, Girls 10-11
35^th Scarlett Petrarca, Girls 15-16
39^th Ava Krueger, Girls 16-17
42^nd Rowan Wong, Girls 11-12

Click on photo above to see our full Worlds 2025 Gallery or click here to see our full results.