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Kerry has been a member of the SOBHD worldwide panel since 2000 and holds Members in Highland and National with BATD and the Australian examining body VSDA.

She is the principal teacher of the Scottish Highland Dance Academy Western Australia and with her teachers they hold classes in many suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area.

She is the current President of the Western Australian Regional Committee of Highland Dancing and in addition works with Kalgoorlie, 600 kilometres from Perth as the current Technical Secretary of the Eastern Goldfields Western Australia Regional Committee of Highland Dancing, having sat on both those organisations executive for many years.

Kerry originally hailed from Sydney but has lived in Perth for many years. Perth is known as one of the remotest capital cities in the world and competes with Auckland, New Zealand for this title.

As there is only one championship a year in Western Australia. Her dancers must travel extensively to compete due to the distances across Australia and overseas.

SHDA dancers past and present have enjoyed successes with many championships wins and top 6 places through Australia, Canada, USA, and Scotland.

SHDA’s latest success came in the 7 to 11 years and the 16 years and over with their dancers winning two of the three 2024 Champion of Champions Championships of Australia. These results together with other SHDA top 6 places in C of C gave the SHDA the teacher of the Adult Champion OZSCOT shield, and the Top Dance School shield in memory of New Zealand’s Julie Appleton-Seymour. A very special award to Kerry with Julie being not only a colleague but a very dear friend after sharing accommodation and practice space in Scotland over the years.

Kerry lives with her partner Dean in the Indian ocean suburb of Floreat, Western Australia. She has recently retired from her role as a financial advisor with an Australia wide company now giving more time to our great sport of highland dancing.

Kerry is very excited to be judging the Glengarry Championship in Maxville and seeing more of beautiful Canada.

Jennifer has been involved with highland dance since the age of four. As a competitor she enjoyed many successes under the training of Adeline Duncan. She also trained for many years in Tap, Jazz, and extensively in Ballet attending the National Ballet School of Canada.  Jennifer has taught dance for the past 35 years and currently operates the Celtica Highland Dance School in Langley, BC.

She has been very fortunate to have some very successful students that have won many National and International championships. Jennifer is a member of the BATD and the SOBHD Adjudicators panel.  

Principal teacher at Hendry Watt Dance School in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, I feel very fortunate to run such a happy, successful dance school.

Taught by Betty Jessiman, I was fortunate to have had numerous opportunities to perform at His Majesty's Theatre in various shows & pantos. I was also a familiar face on the competitive highland games circuit. 

A fellow member of the UKA SDTA & BATD, I become an RSOBHD Adjudicator in 2011.

I enjoy bringing dancers to be the best they can be and building their confidence & experience travelling the world, competing and performing at the highest level successfully in Highland and Choreography.

Building lifelong friendships and striving to do the best for the dancers, allowing them to accomplish great things, is the main aim of my teaching.

I look forward to adjudicating at the 75th anniversary of the Glengarry games and am very grateful to be given the opportunity.

Sean started piping in 1993, and regularly competes in solo, and pipe band competitions.  Some notable solo prizes include winning the Canadian Gold Medal, and Bar to the Gold for Piobaireachd at Maxville; three-time winner of the Livingstone Invitational; 1st and 2nd in the Silver Medal for Piobaireachd at Oban and Inverness in the same year, and two 2nd placings in the following year in the Gold Medal; winning the Golden Axe for piobaireachd, and overall at the 2019 Lochaber Gathering; and winning the A-grade Hornpipe and Jig at Inverness in 2015.

In pipe bands, Sean was a member of the Milton Optimist Pipe Band, led by Gail Brown, who went on to win the 1994 Juvenile and 1997 Grade 3 World Pipe Band Championships. He was a member of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, and the Toronto Police Pipe Band, where he was Pipe Major. In 2016 and 2017, Sean played in the '87 Live in Ireland concerts held in Glasgow and Belfast, and in 2019 joined the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band from Northern Ireland, winning the title of Grade 1 Pipe Band World Champions in 2022.  

Sean first started piping for Highland Dance, when his sister Jacqueline competed in the late 1990's, and has returned to playing for dancing competitions in 2024 with his daughter Isla, and son Charlie now starting their Highland Dance and piping journeys.  

Outside of competition, Sean has performed live and recorded his compositions with a ceilidh band called the Tartan Terrors, and performed live with Bryan Adams, Natalie MacMaster, and his brothers' rock band, Black Pistol Fire. 

Sean has a  Physical Health and Education degree from the University of Toronto, and is a Toronto Police officer.