Utah's Brett Banford Representin' on “So You Think You Can Dance”

Filed under:Cool Stuff,Friends,Inspiring,Special Olympics,Video — posted by Tyler on May 28, 2008 @ 10:26 pm    Print Post

My wife and I enjoy watching “So You Think You Can Dance” and were excited to see that they were coming to Salt Lake City to search for talent this year.  The Salt Lake City episode aired tonight and it wasn’t long before I saw a familiar sight.  Anyone involved in the Special Olympics Utah program would recognize it in a heartbeat, it was none other then Brett Banford rippin’ it up out in the snow on the street in his ski jacket as he often does.  In fact, if you ever decide to volunteer for a Special Olympics event be sure to stick around for the dance that takes place after the first day of events.  You’ll have so much fun!

Brett is a very outspoken and charismatic athlete and he loves everyone he meets.  He told Kat he loved her on the show, but he told me that before, too.  He represented Special Olympics and people with disabilities so well tonight; we can all be proud.  I’ll upload his highlights and post it soon so you can all enjoy his performance and words of inspiration if you missed tonight’s episode.  His personality is addictive!

Way to go, Brett!

UPDATE: You can also see him in an interview on Fox 13 News.

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3 comments »

  1. What a cool young man!  I just loved seeing that news clip of Brett.  He touched my heart!  I’m so glad he was brave enough to interject “just one more thing”.  Totally awesome!

    Comment by Merrilee Slack — May 29, 2008 @ 8:03 am

  2. Those were some great moves!

    Comment by Dance Videos — August 24, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

  3. I was watching “So you think you can dance” when i saw brett it honestly touched my heart so see such an amazing young man with so much love and drive to compete and to “represent” children with down syndrome. My little brother is also downs syndrome and i wanted to personally say thank you to the mother or brett and brett him self! that he is absolutely right that even though you have a disability that you can go a far as anyone no matter what!!!!

    Comment by kathryn mutchler — August 29, 2008 @ 11:54 am

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