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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Greenville dancer best in world

Drew Lovejoy of Greenville captured the World Irish Dance Championship in the 14-15 male age group Monday, March 29, at the Royal Opera House in Glasgow, Scotland .

A native of Boston, the 15-year-old son of Andee and Donald Goldberg, a ninth-grader at the online school Ohio Connections Academy, began the event as the reigning North American champion and sixth-place dancer in the world.,

All of the other top 10 dancers in his division at Glasgow were from Ireland or England .

Featured in the March edition of “Irish Culture and Dancing” magazine, he has studied Irish dance since age 7, beginning in Dayton , then in Minster and Cincinnati .

He is now a student at the McGing School of Irish dance in Cincinnati .

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