Student Success Stories



Student Successes

In the past several years, my students have been admitted and/or awarded scholarships to the Cleveland Institute of Music, Boston University, TISH at New York University, Florida Southern College, Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, Stetson University, Elon University, and the Broadway Theater Project hosted by the University of South Florida in Tampa. Recent examples of winners from my studio are as follows:


NATS District Competition


Christine Polacheck, 1st Place Beginning High School Girls, 2006
• Meredith Nance, 1
st Place College Freshmen Women, 2005
• Tania Rodriguez, 2
nd Place College Sophomore Women, 2005
• Christopher Teixeira, 1
st Place Men’s Musical theater, 2004
• Heather Ann Strayer, 1
st Place Advanced Women 2004
• Christopher Teixeira, 2
nd Place, College Freshmen Men, 2004
• Tania Rodriguez, 2nd Place College Freshmen Women, 2004
• Jenna Craven, 3
rd Place College Freshmen Women, 2004
• Melissa Cozart, 1
st Place College Freshmen Women, 2002
• Stephanie Hollingsworth, 2nd Place College Freshmen Women, 2001
• Barbara Myers, 2
nd Place College Sophomore Women, 2001
• Shannon Hobby, 3rd Place College Freshmen Women, 2001
• Christyn Spenser, 1
st Place College Freshmen Women, 2000
• Carrie Scheevers, 1
st Place College Senior Women, 2000
• Jessica Pulver, 3
rd Place College Senior Women, 2000
• Daniel Spector, 1st Place High School Men, 1998


NATS Regional Competition


Brandon Miller, 1st Place Advanced Men, 2004
• Christopher Teixeira, 3
rd Place College Freshmen, Men’s Musical Theater 2004
• Daniel Spector, 1st Place High School Men 1998


Youth Scholarship Award


Nancy Hawthorne, 1st Place, Vocal Category, Youth Scholarship Award, Ruth Eckerd Hall, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2002