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ACHIEVEMENTS:


Holiday Rising Star Champion
Rising Star World Professional Latin Championship Semi-Finalist
United States Rising Star Professional Latin Champion Finalist
2 x US Youth Ten Dance Champion
Amateur Ten Dance Champion
US Youth Standard Champion

STATS:

Style: Latin
Age: 22
Height: 5'3"
Nationality: American
Based in: Utah
Status: Currently not competing as she's looking for a partner. Performs regularly as part of a dance company

CELEBRITY PARTNER:

Ashly is partnering musician and ex-New Kid On The Block Joey McIntyre.

PROFESSIONAL DANCE PARTNER:

Before recently retiring from the professional Latin circuit, Ashly partnered Rick Robinson.

BACKGROUND:

Ashly grew up in Utah as one of a family of eight kids (6 girls and 2 boys). Ashly's mother, a keen dancer herself, owns a local dance studio so it was only natural that Ashly started dancing as soon as she could walk. All of Ashly's siblings, save for one brother, are also keen dancers.

DANCING:

Growing up, dancing was as natural for Ashly as walking and talking. At the age of 12 Ashly discovered ballroom dancing. She trained in both and, won a number Amateur Ten Dance titles with her amateur partner Jonathan Gulledge.

What Ashly loves about Latin dancing is the "passion and charisma." She thinks the chemistry between a couple is crucial "because if you don't have the chemistry you're just dancing as two different people and not as a couple."

As a professional dancer, Ashly partnered Rick Robinson with whom she won the Holiday Rising Star Champion title, as well as reaching the Semi-Finalist round in the Rising Star section of the Ballroom world's biggest competition in Blackpool England.