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Awards (Back to CV)

Grand National Dance Championships (Atlanta, Georgia)

  • 2nd place - Team Division (SAF All Bal Team)

Canadian Swing Championships 2005 (Manoir Saint-Sauveur, Quebec)

  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - Canadian Showcase Champions
  • SAF All Bal Team - Team Champions
  • Eric Bertrand & Caroline Rossi - Shagdown Challenge Champions
  • Byron Alley & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Canadian Showcase
  • Byron Alley & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Swing Couples
  • Marylène Cousineau (with Zack Richard) - 2nd place, Pro-AM Followers
  • Alex Rakic (with Annie Trudeau) - 2nd place, Pro-AM Leaders
  • Zack Richard & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Classic Swing Couples
  • Memet Bilgin & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Strictly Blues
  • Zack Richard & Sylwia Bielec - 2nd place, Strictly Balboa
  • Byron Alley & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Fast Dance
  • Zack Richard & Annie Trudeau - 3rd place, Shagdown Challenge
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 3rd place, Swing Couples
  • Karine Bédard (with Byron Alley) - 3rd place, Pro-AM Followers
  • Michel Mazerolle (with Maryse Lebeau) - 3rd place, Pro-AM Leaders
  • Aidan Fisher & Sylwia Bielec - 3rd place, Classic Swing Couples
  • Annie Trudeau - 3rd place, Charleston Challenge
  • Stephane Collin & Natacha Beausoleil - 3rd place, Montreal Style Jive
  • Annie Trudeau (with Jason Herron) - 3rd place, Advanced Lindy Hop Jack & Jill

Boston Tea Party 2005 (Danvers, Massachussetts)

  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 1st place, Strictly Lindy
  • Max Pitruzzella & Maryse Lebeau - 1st place, Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill
  • Zack Richard & Eden Atencio - 2nd place, Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 2nd place, Balboa Jack & Jill
  • Eric Bertrand & Maryse Lebeau - 3rd place, Strictly Balboa
  • Eric Bertrand & Holly Beeson - 3rd place, Balboa Jack & Jill
  • Phil Onochie & Caroline Rossi - 3rd place, Advanced Lindy Jack & Jill

American Lindy Hop Championships 2004 (Stamford, Connecticut)

  • Swinging Air Force - 3rd place, Cabaret
  • Zack Richard & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Strictly Lindy
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 3rd place, Open Showcase

Michigan Classic 2004 (Detroit, Michigan)

  • Swinging Air Force - 2nd place, Team Division
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 1st place, Lindy Open
  • Byron Alley & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Lindy Open
  • Zack Richard & Brenda C.K. - 1st place, Lindy Jack & Jill
  • Adam Boehmer & Maryse Lebeau - 2nd place, Lindy Jack & Jill
  • Zack Richard & Annie Trudeau - 2nd place, Strictly Lindy

Eastern Canadian Swing Championships 2004 (Montréal, QC)

What a weekend at the Manoir Saint-Sauveur! The SAF went away with numerous prizes.

  • Swinging Air Force - 1st place, Cabaret
  • Byron Alley & Annie Trudeau - Fast Dance Champions
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - Canadian Showcase Champions
  • SAF All Bal Team - 2nd place, Team Division
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - Swing Couples Champions
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - Just Balboa Champions

North Atlantic Dance Championships 2004 (Stamford, CT)

Swing Dance Championships

  • Maryse Lebeau and Zack Richard - 1st place, Just Dance Lindy Hop
  • SAF All Bal Team - 4th place, Team Division

All-Balboa Championships 2003 (Cleveland, OH)

Balboa Championships

  • Maryse Lebeau and Zack Richard - 5th place

Eastern Canadian Swing Championships 2003 (Montreal, QC)

  • Swinging Air Force - 1st place, Team Division
  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 2nd place, Canadian Showcase
  • Zack Richard & Mélanie Huot-Lavoie (as "Hip Hop Air Force") - 1st place, Cabaret
  • Stéphane "Jiver" Collins & Annie Trudeau - Footloose Award

North Atlantic Dance Championships 2003 (NYC)

    Swinging Air Force earns Canada five plaques!

  • Didier Jean-Francois - 2nd place, Open Lindy Hop Jack & Jill
  • Olivier Morin & Samantha Merlin - 2nd place, Just Dance Lindy Hop
  • Zack Richard & Annie Trudeau - 3rd place, Just Dance Lindy Hop

Boston Tea Party 2003 (Boston, MA)

  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 2nd place, Strictly Lindy Hop

Battle of Swing Cities 2003 (Detroit, MI)

  • Swinging Air Force, representing Montreal - 1st place
    Velvet Cup Champions!

Eastern Canadian Swing Championships 2002 (Montreal, QC)

  • Zack Richard & Maryse Lebeau - 2nd place, Canadian Showcase
  • Didier Jean-Francois & Annie Trudeau - 3rd place, Canadian Showcase

American Lindy Hop Championships 2001 (Stamford, CT)

  • Swinging Air Force - 3rd Place, Team Division.
    The first ever Canadian swing dance team to compete at an international event!
  • Melanie Huot-Lavoie - 2nd place, Open Jack & Jill.

New England Swing Dance Championships 2001 (Cape Code, MA)

  • Natacha Beausoleil - 3rd place, Advanced Jack & Jill.
  • Melizande Leduc - 3rd place, Advanced Jack & Jill.

Nathalie Gomez in La Belle Province 2001 (Quebec City, QC)

  • Zack Richard & Melanie Huot-Lavoie, - 1st place, couple contest

River City Swingout 2001 (Richmond, VA)

  • Didier Jean-François - 1st place, Jack and Jill

Comments

"To the Swinging Air Force Group, we just want to thank you all for helping to make our wedding the success is was.

You are all very talented, upbeat,and high energy.Everyone, at all ages really enjoyed the show you preformed and especially loved dancing with you after. I am still getting calls and comments about what a great idea and how everyone just loved it.

It was a treat working with Didier and we really liked your red suit!!!

Thanks a million for everything, and the word is out about your dance troup. Looking forward to the next time !!! "

- Joanie Reichson, Montreal

"J'ai été très satisfaite de votre travail, c'est exactement ce que je voulais!"

- Marie-Eve Bourque (Sears St-Jerome)

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