Ballroom Dance Club at USF

Matt Dunton - Summer, As. Fall/Spring

Matt is currently an undergraduate student at University of South Florida and has been with the Ballroom Dance Club since it started in Spring 2009, serving as Treasurer from Spring 2009 until Summer 2010 and President from Summer 2010 to currently; he is also the one who first stated that a ballroom dance club should be at USF. He has been the Summer Instructor since 2009. He competed at the Beginning Silver level before coming to USF and has been dancing since 2007.

Matt is from Seminole, Florida of Pinellas County and is also the captain of the USF men's wrestling team. He is looking to go to graduate school for a Master's degree in Counselor Education and aims at becoming a Guidance Counselor at the high school level or Academic Adviser at the collegiate level. He also wants to coach wrestling at any level and write.

 
 Debra Loran - Fall/Spring 

Debra is a professional ballroom dance instructor and judge. Debra has been teaching ballroom dance since 1974. She has been the club's Fall/Spring Instructor since Fall 2011 while also serving as the club's faculty adviser since the club's inception in Spring 2009.

Debra is also the Ballroom, Salsa, and Swing professor for the University of South Florida. In addition, she hosts two competitions: one in the fall and one in the Spring, the latter of which is the major Florida State Fair Ballroom/Dancesport Festival that has been going on annually since 2000. She has served as Active Championship Competition Adjudicator and Master of Ceremonies for such competitions as the "Fire & Ice Ball" and "Millenium" dance championships. She has also served as a trainer for the U.S. National Amateur Jr. American Ballroom Champions and is a member of the "Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance."