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 resultshere.
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
12th Fiona Marino. Ladies 18-19 (2nd World Medal) 14th Brielle Maguire, Girls 13-14 (4th World Medal)
Congratulations to our dancers who participated in the 2024 New England Region Oireachtas in Hartford, CT!
For the second year in a row, we had five New England Regional champions and four runners-up—a total of 15 soloists stood on the podium! Additionally, 22 of our soloists earned the right to compete at the World Championships in Dublin this spring!
Our Traditional Set dancers included 3 dancers on the podium, and 12 in the top 10 of their competitions. On the final day, we saw two of our teams take the top of the podium as champions with four runners-up and a total of 13 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 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 1st place winners this year, including
U7 Boys Champion – Charlie Helling
U11 Girls Champion—Rowan Wong (x4)
U12 Girls Champion – Kelsey Lema (x2)
U18 Girls Champion—Fiona Marino
U19 Ladies Champion – Charlotte McDaniel (x2)
U12 Mixed 4-Hand Team A-Brielle Hadley, Amelia Jenness, Aly Philbrick and Finley Picanco
U12 Ceili – Orla Bolduc, Pippi Cole, Marley Gagne, Caroline Ganly, Kelsey Lema, Leah Rowe, Maggie Sierpien and Rowan Wong
What a great Oireachtas for the Murray Academy dancers!
Please see the full results summary herefor all the highlights, including the dancers who are now qualified to compete at the World Championships in Dublin this April.
Top 20 World Medals