KU’s Dancing with the Stars

Come watch your favorite KU personalities battle it out in a dance competition that you won’t want to miss! Featuring students, staff, and a wide variety of dance styles, KU’s Dancing with the Stars is guaranteed to be a great time.

Pick up your free voucher for KU’s Dancing with the Stars in the Student Union Activities box office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union! Check out our Pinterest Board for #kudwts here! 

MEET OUR STARS:

 

My freshman year here at KU I worked along side 17 other students to bring Dance Marathon to campus. In four years we have raised over $125,000 and helped support Children’s Miracle Network of the Greater KC area. I’ve also held positions in MILK, CCO Advisory Board, SLC, and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity (as a member). I love taking long hot showers.

 

 

 

 

Emily Lamb is a senior from Lawrence majoring in American Studies with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Outreach and a 2011 E.x.C.E.L. winner. She also serves at the Outreach Co-Director of The Big Event, senior class Board of Class Officers representatives, and DJ for KJHK. Emily is quite the adrenaline junkie. She loves to sky dive, bungee jump, white water raft, and ride roller coasters

 

 

 

 

 

Cody Charles has a smile, laugh, and personality that can light up any room. He began his career in university housing; however, he also had a true passion for social justice issues and leadership. He has made the move to Multicultural Affairs where he currently serves as an Assistant Director. During his time at KU, he has led diversity trainings for much of the campus community, including: student athletes, student executive boards, staff, faculty, and high school and middle school students. In addition, he has advised student groups such as: Black Student Union, Residence Hall Association, Alpha Tao Omega, and the NPHC Judicial Board. One of his life goals is to travel the country lecturing on social justice & leadership topics. He has been a great facilitator, mentor, advisor, and most important, a great friend to all the students who have had the pleasure of working with him.

 

 

 

 

Daymond Patterson is from Mesquite, TX. I’m a senior and play football here at KU. I haven’t done any choreographed dancing before and am really looking forward to this challenge. I feel that playing football will help out with my feet and hips. This will be a new fun experience but at the end of the day I’m looking to win.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eileen Remley is from Concordia, KS. She is a double major in English and International Studies. Her major involvements include Orientation Coordinator-New Student Orientation, The BIG Event-Director of Internal Affairs, Board of Class Officers, Student Ambassadors, Mortar Board. A fun-fact about Eileen is that she once ordered a travel guide from every state and had them sent to her mother.

 

 

 

 

Jay Lewis is in his 10th year as the executive director of KU Hillel, the Jewish Student Center at the University of Kansas. During his tenure, KU Hillel has emerged as one of the largest organizations at KU and one of the most successful Hillel’s in the country. A KU alum, Lewis has been recognized as KU Student Group Advisor of the Year and a Hillel International “Exemplar of Excellence.” As a student, he performed over 400 shows at Comedy Sportz, an improvisational comedy club in Kansas City. Prior to KU’s Dancing with the Stars, his dance experience was limited to watching “So You Think You Can Dance” and dancing in his living room with his wife and two kids, Keaton and Mckenna.

 

 

 

 

It took more than 22 years of professional print journalism and advertising planning and copywriting to get Kerry Benson to KU’s School of Journalism, where she’s taught since 1999. When she’s not teaching graduate and undergraduate students the principles of good writing, advertising and public relations, Benson plays tennis, runs and devours good literature. A mash-up of Benson’s skills might read: She can start an IV, drive a tractor-trailer and diagram a sentence. And she makes a mean apple pie.

 

 

 

 

 

Hi my name is Lauren Lacey and I am a senior studying mechanical engineering.  Throughout my college adventure I have had the opportunity to immerse myself into a variety of different aspects of KU.  I am currently serving as the Team Leader of Jayhawk Motorsports, KU Senior Class President/President of Board of Class Officers, Director of Finance for KU Dance Marathon, and Vice President of Pi Tau Sigma.  Also during my college career I have been highly involved with Engineering Student Council serving as the Vice President and Chair of the Engineering Finance Advising Committee.  Two fun facts about me is that when I was six years old I held a swimming record in the mid-west for the 25 meter backstroke and I am one of 48 first cousins.

 

 

 

 

My name is Libby Johnson and I am thrilled to be on SUA’s Dancing with the Stars! I am the Student Body President and most of my time is spent right here in the Union working with other students and administrators. I am a senior majoring in Psychology and Human Biology and plan to continue on to graduate school in neuroscience after a couple of years in a service organization. I hail from Lawrence and was born and raised a Jayhawk. While at KU, I’ve been involved in student senate, greek life, community service, and sustainability work.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Schlosser joined Kansas Athletics in June, 2011 as the assistant athletics director for student-athlete development and leadership training. Schlosser came to KU after spending the previous six years as the director of the athletic study center at Illinois State. He was also an assistant gymnastics coach at ISU for three years. Prior to that, he was the national coaching coordinator of USA Trampoline and Tumbling from 1993-99. He developed a national coaching program when Trampoline became an Olympic Sport. As an athlete Schlosser was a silver medalist at the World Tumbling Championships in 1982.

 

 

 

 

Check out this video from last years Dancing With the Stars: