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(Creston, IA) – Mount Ayr native, Addison Shay, has been named the Assistant Dance Coach at Southwestern Community College. She is a former Spartan herself and just recently graduated from Iowa State University.
During her time at Southwestern Community College, she worked as an Institutional Advancement Assistant and that experience carried her to Iowa State University, where she completed her undergraduate. Shay was just formally employed by the Creston Community Schools District while also teaching dance at the Project C Dance Company. She has been an instrumental force in developing youth in the area while serving as an academic mentor in college and even volunteered as a t-ball coach.
CAM’s Natalie Behnken will be joining the program for the upcoming season and will be one of the many relying on the leadership of the new assistant coach.
Shay will begin working alongside Head Coach Paige Russo to help prepare the Spartans Dance Team for another run at the National Championship.