

Sossy
(pronounced SO cee) was born in Lebanon and moved to
the United States at age 10. Along with her twin sister, Nora, she was
trained as a classical violinist from childhood all the way through age 18.
After 182 units, in college, and changing her major five times, Sossy landed in
radio, learning all aspects of that business.
Today Sossy is the Director of Marketing &
Business Development in the credit union industry.
Though she dabbled in ballet and modern jazz in her teens, it wasn’t
until a little over four years ago that she found her nitch in the country
dance world. This evolved from country two-stepping in the clubs to a
country dance team, and finally to a Pro/Am situation with Tom. It
only took one year for Tom & Sossy to fall in love and make plans for
marriage. And who better to preside over the ceremony but the
incomparable Skippy Blair. Then After only two years of earning her
way through Newcomer and Novice divisions Sossy had become a teaching
assistant with Tom. As such she could no longer dance as an amateur and was
forced to move into the Pro Pro division. Once she was settled in
Sossy became a teaching Pro with her own students (which enabled her to grow
at a break neck pace). So it
wasn't long before her growing desire was to dance with her husband as a
partner. And according to the rules she could only dance in ProAm with
students and in Division I with husband Tom. So
she stepped up to the challenge as a relatively new dancer. But in
only two years as a Pro Sossy has now become the
UCWDC Crystal Division I
World Champions
With 21 years of experience in the nightclub industry, Tom says the studio’s atmosphere was one thing that drew him to it. “The studio has the design and layout of a club,” he explains, “and I thought it had a lot of potential to be like a dance club but without the alcohol and the problems that go along with that.”
US Open 2007
