Iowa Western Dance National Championships
2023 OPEN POM NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
In her second season at the helm of the Iowa Western Dance program, Head Coach Michaela Patterson and her squad competed at the DTU National Championships in Orlando, FL. The team finished as national champions in Open Pom with a score of 87.98, just 1.2 points ahead of Trinity Valley. The Reivers also finished second in Open Hip Hop and third in Open Jazz.
2024 HIP-HOP AND JAZZ NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Iowa Western Dance brought home two more national championships, winning Junior College Jazz and Hip-Hop at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The Reivers scored 88.04 points for their performance in Hip-Hop, defeating two other teams in the finals, and 90.14 points in their Jazz routine, taking the top spot over three others.
Winning Open Pom last season, the team finished in 2nd place, just 0.68 points behind Trinity Valley for the top spot. Head Coach Michaela Patterson has brought three national championships back to Iowa Western in just three seasons at the program's helm.
2025 HIP-HOP NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
For the second year in a row, Iowa Western Dance won the Junior College DTU Hip-Hop performance at The College Classic from the Orange County Convension Center.
The Reivers scored 86.04 points in the preliminary round, then improved their mark to 88.88 points, earning themselves a spot in the prestigious "Battle" to wrap up the competition. Dance Team Union Battle's are a showdown of the best of the best with qualifying dance teams and cheer teams from the preliminary round are selected and invited to perform in the Battle, hoping to win the coveted Battle Cup.
Iowa Western also finished as the national runner-up in Junior College Pom and took home third place in Junior College Jazz.
For Head Coach Michaela Patterson, this is her 4th DTU National Championship since starting the program in 2021. Her program won Open Pom in 2023 and followed that up with titles in Hip-Hop and Jazz last year.