{"id":28656,"date":"2025-07-18T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/?post_type=oasis-news&p=28656"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:50:37","slug":"curtin-student-dances-her-way-to-the-top-of-the-national-rankings","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/curtin-student-dances-her-way-to-the-top-of-the-national-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin student dances her way to the top of the national rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Reading time: 1 minute<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Second-year Bachelor of Occupational Therapy student Isabella Zammit is not only making strides in the classroom, she\u2019s dominating dance floors across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competing alongside her dance partner, Isabella has travelled from Perth to Melbourne and Sydney to take part in some of Australia\u2019s most prestigious ballroom dance competitions. Her results? Nothing short of outstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representing Curtin with poise and precision, Isabella has consistently placed in the top ranks in both her age division (Under 21) and the more competitive Adult division, in the categories of Standard and New Vogue ballroom styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \n\n

\n
\n \n \"\"\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \"\"\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n \"\"\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
<\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a snapshot of her recent competition results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victorian DanceSport Championship \u2013 4 May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open Standard \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open New Vogue \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd49 Adult Open Standard \u2013 3rd place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5th Adult Open New Vogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside Change Cup & Freedom to Dance Ball \u2013 7 June 2025 (International Event)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd48 Under 21 Open Standard \u2013 2nd place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open New Vogue \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6th Adult Open Standard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd48 Adult Open New Vogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Night of Stars National Championship \u2013 14 June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open Standard \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open New Vogue \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd49 Adult Open Standard \u2013 3rd place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd48 Adult Open New Vogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dance Move Engage National Championship \u2013 28 June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open Standard \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd47 Under 21 Open New Vogue \u2013 1st place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd49 Adult Open Standard \u2013 3rd place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd48 Adult Open New Vogue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to these incredible performances, Isabella and her partner have retained their position as the number one ranked couple in Australia for both Standard and New Vogue in their age group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second-year Bachelor of Occupational Therapy student Isabella Zammit is not only making strides in the classroom, she\u2019s dominating dance floors across the country. | Reading time: 1 min<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4418,"featured_media":28657,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"8219,6688,8384,4667,5420,8090","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[145],"class_list":["post-28656","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-sport-recreation"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_8968-1588x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Rachelle","last_name":"Erzay","display_name":"Rachelle Erzay"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 17:35:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/28656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/28656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=28656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}