When Shelby isn’t spending time with her husband, family, or friends, she is helping coach teams at Limitless. Ever since Shelby was 3, she has been very passionate about dance. It has always been a huge part of her life whether being the dancer, the coach, the choreographer, or a guest instructor. Throughout her dance career, she has been trained in multiple genres, such as, Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, and Hip Hop. Part of her love for dance is keeping up on all the new things and being able to teach them to her dancers, safely. Something new that Shelby is learning more about is Acro Dance and she is excited to start implementing this style into the Limitless company teams.
As a young dancer, Shelby danced for Elite Street Dance Co. owned by Larisa Leavitt. She was a part of 2 studio teams, 2 to 3 ballet classes, and 2 to 3 Hip Hop classes. It wasn’t uncommon for her to be in about 10 to 12 dances at our end of year recitals. In high school, while remaining at the studio, she was on the drill team. She was co-captain her Junior and Senior year. She then tried out and made the All-State Drill Team in 2008 (her Senior year), and she received 2 State Championships in 2007 and 2008. She is proud to say that she was on the drill team the very first time they took state in their schools history.
As an instructor and choreographer, her career started at the studio. Along with a fellow dancer, she helped teach and choreograph the Hip-Hop classes for a few years from middle school to high school. Since then, she has choreographed for multiple studio teams, drill teams, solos, duets and has won best choreography at multiple dance competitions.