Adjudicators and Officials
Dylan Cary	Adjudicator -
Sergey Bolotnikov	Adjudicator -
James Repetti	Adjudicator - New York         - A+
	James Repetti began dancing as a child and has competed in and teaches Latin, Rhythm, Standard, and Smooth. James is a certified teacher through the USISTD. In 2015 he became the United States National Vice Champion in American Rhythm and has since focused entirely on his teaching. James serves as a coach for Stony Brook, RIT, Cornell, and Hofstra Universitys Ballroom Dance Teams. He also privately coaches individual couples from across the country. His students have gone on to compete professionally, as well as to become national champions in their respective styles and levels.
Lukas Chockuba	Adjudicator -
Wendi Davies	Adjudicator - West Orange, NJ        NDCA+USA Dance - A+ B+ C+ D+ E+
	Wendi began dancing while at Princeton studying architecture. In her amateur career she was ranked third in the United States. She turned professional in 1991 and went on to be ranked second at the US Championships, and was the winner of “Championship Ballroom Dancing.” She was the UK Rising Star Champion, Blackpool Rising Star Runner-up, US Representative to the Worlds and Blackpool team match, a finalist at the French Open and the US Open Championships and was ranked 13th in the world. She was a co-owner and operator of Ballroom on Fifth in New York City for 12 years. She is currently a co-owner and operator of the New Jersey DancSport Classic competitions
Christine Zona	Adjudicator - New York, NY and Pittsburgh, PA         - A+ B+ C+ D+ E+
	National Adjudicator USADance and NADTA A+B+C+D+E+ -Competed professionally in the International Standard and Latin and the American Ballroom divisions -North American Rising Star American Ballroom Champion -Chicago Harvest Moon Ball American Ballroom Champion -Published, through Human Kinetics, a how to dance book, Gotta Ballroom, which includes the American style ballroom dances. -Editor of Dance Notes, a magazine dedicated to interviews of World and United States Champions. -International Standard and American Smooth Coach for Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Asta Sigvaldadottir	Adjudicator -
Tatiana Keegan	Adjudicator -
Ieva Pauksena	Adjudicator - Secaucus, NJ
Judge Z	Adjudicator -
Pamela Licht	Chairman -
Yang Chen	Emcee - New York
	Yang Chen has been dancing for more than twenty years and is currently the President of the Greater New York USA Dance Chapter. Yang has extensive experience as a Master of Ceremonies of many ballroom competitions including the Manhattan Amateur Classic, NJ DanceSport Classic, National Qualifying Events in Bethesda, Maryland, Knoxville, Tennessee and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the USA Dance National Championships and numerous collegiate events, including the DC DanceSport Inferno. He lives in New York City, and yes, his first name is pronounced “young.”
Peter Collins	Music Director - New York        NDCA+USA Dance -
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Joe Huesmann	Scrutineer - Maryland        USA Dance+WDSF - Scrutineer
	Joe started dancing in 1995 while attending grad school at the University of Maryland. For the first year he was purely a social dancer; until the ballroom club coaxed him into entering their inaugural DC Dancesport Inferno competition, and he was hooked. He soon gravitated to International Standard, and focused on that style for many years. As part of the organizing committee for the Mid-Atlantic Championships NQE in Bethesda, MD from 2009-2022, he performed technical setup for O2CM and acted as online registrar. In this capacity he became familiar with O2CM, scrutineering, and running dancesport competitions. After scrutineering college competitions for a few years, he passed the scrutineering exam in 2014. After he and his partner qualified for and danced at the world championships in 2015, she retired from competition. He elected to do the same, to focus on scrutineering and life off the comp floor.