Congratulations to our 2025 Scholarship Recipients!
A Step Above is proud to offer Dance Scholarships every year to our dancers. Ms. Sierra offers one Empire Team and one Dynasty Team dancer a scholarship towards tuition.
- 2025 Dynasty Team Scholarship Recipient – August Hornberger
- 2025 Empire Team Scholarship Recipient – Selina Barnes
Our prestigious Dancer of the Year showcases the leadership and teamwork we value
A Step Above Dance Studio is proud to give out our prestigious Dancer of the Year award to students who show leadership, teamwork values, and who is an outstanding role model and dancer. Voted on by the Competition Team Dancers, the award is given to two dancers each year. Each Dancer of the Year wins our Dancer of the Year trophy, a slew of wonderful gifts, and the title is theirs for an entire year!
2025 Senior Dancer of the Year:
Raelee Schwartz
Meet Raelee
Raelee’s Favorites:
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Let’s Get To Know Raelee:
2025 Junior Dancer of the Year:
London Smith
Meet London
London’s Favorites
Food: Pasta
Color: Pink
Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You
Book: Frizzly
Singer/Band: Ariana Grande and Billie Ellish
Competition/Convention: PAC
Activity, other than dance: Sing
Dance Celebrity/Teacher: Miss Megan
Season: Fall
Place to Eat: Cane’s
Snack: Hot Puffs
Dream Vacation: Paris
How many years have your attended ASA?: 4 years
London’s This or That
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Winter or Fall: Fall
Hot or Cold: Hot
Red or Blue: Blue
Morning or Night: Night
Breakfast or Dinner: Breakfast
Gold or Silver: Gold
Diamond or Pearl: Diamond
Wish or Dream: Dream
Cake or Ice Cream: Ice Cream Spicy or Sweet: Spicy
Most Memorable ASA Dance Moment: When I first joined the competition team, I didn’t think anyone would like me. Then going on with the season everyone made me more comfortable and I started to grow a relationship with them and they’re all like my sisters.
Let’s Get To Know London:
Keepers of the Dancer of the Year title!
2024
Junior – Harlee Osborne
Senior – Olivia Olds
2023
Junior – Brynn Melton
Senior – Madeleine Finch
2022
Junior – Madison Oakes
Senior – Emma McCall
2021
Junior — Samantha White
Senior — Victoria Jazzelle Holbrook-Phillips
2020
Junior – Lainy Wilmoth
Senior – Megan Kizer
2019
Junior – Ella LeMar
Senior – Tod Fish and Ashlee Harmon
2018
Junior – Alanah Cook
Senior – Kayleigh Boyed
2017
Junior – Addie Delph
Senior – Lillie Crowe
2016
Junior – Mackenzie Burden
Senior – Amelia Heslep
2015
Junior – Lily Webb
Senior – Olyvia Sloan
2014
Sierra Harmon
2013
Ashley Crowe
2012
Billy Foster
2011
Haylee Dunahay
2010
Jordyn Rider
2009
Danielle Denison
“I personally want to commend all your dancers from this weekend at Applause. You were all great and the respect you showed each team that won First place was awesome! Good luck in the future!”
— Tim Keever,
a parent that we competed with at a dance competition