Congratulations to Trent for caturing The World Irish Dancing Championship, April 2006 in Belfast, Ireland! Trent has won every major title - this was his 10th title!   Trent was featured in the January 2006 issue of Irish Dancing & Culture International. This magazine is published in England.   Quote from the article:   "Another component of Trent's success is the cross-training he has in other dance forms. What most people don't know about him is he began studying dance at 3 years old with Dorothy's School Of Dance in Bellmore, NY. His classes included ballet, tap lyrical, jazz, and hip-hop as well as some instruction in gymnastics. He's competed and won numerous competitions in these other dance forms too!"

The 2nd picture down is from a performance at the Annual Strawberry Festival!  Go Jackie, Jenny, Jessica, & Falyn.......dancing with your "internationally famous" friend, Trent!  Trent Kowalik appeared on HBO's Inside the NFL - November 2005.       OK, Trent is HOT HOT HOT! On Friday May 5, 2006 he was featured on Good Morning America segment's on Cinco de Mayo and also Disney's new Mickey Mouse Club Show. Way to go Trent!

Here is an article published in Newsday on May 23, 2006 titled "Stepping lively with pride and passion" Quoted from the article written by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher:    "Trent Kowalik's mom likes to tell people her son was dancing in the womb.    Lauretta Kowalik said she could feel him "moving and grooving" and that when he was born 11 years ago, there was a knot in the umbilical cord. Doctors told her the knot was the result of the fetus' hyperactivity.    Before he could walk, his mother said, Trent was pirouetting in a baby jumper. At 3, he enrolled in Dorothy's School Of Dance in Bellmore. As soon as he turned 4 - minimum age for students at Inishfree School Of Irish Dance in Massapequa - he started learning the "Riverdance" moves of his idol, Michael Flatley.  Then in April, Trent, who lives in Wantagh, became the first American to win the world Irish dance championship in the 11-and-under age division in Belfast.    Despite the accomplishment, Trent, who is one-quarter Irish, isn't entirely partial to that type of dance. He also takes ballet, tap, jazz, even acrobatics and hip-hop, at the Dorothy School." (sheesh, it is Dorothy's School Of Dance!) "I just love to, like move around and just get loose and stuff to the music," Trent said recently while taking a homework break before heading to a 9 p.m. Irish dance class.  "I really don't have a favorite type of dancing. Really, I like all kinds.""    At 4-feet tall and 65 punds, Trent is all skin, bone, and muscle. And now, he has painful insight into a dance career that hangs on being in optimal physical condition.    Two weeks ago, as he did a leap in ballet class (actually in a rehearsal as he was doing a reverse leap - which a dancer cannot see where they are going), he caught his right foot on a barre, a bar dancers use for balance during exercises, behind him.    Because of a metatarsal bone fracture, Trent is side-lined for a few weeks.   His mother said Trent was devastated that he wouldn't be able to dance for a while and that he would be missing an American dance competition. He differentiates anthything that's not Irish dancing by calling it "American dance."    Moving among the vastly different types of dance comes naturally. "I kind of just go into the mode that I'm dancing," he said. "It's like before I do it, I think, OK, this is Irish and I know what I have to do for it."    Early on, Trent's parents couldn't help but worry how a boy passionate about dance would navigate his peer relationships.    He tried soccer, buts seemed to prefer individual activities. Still, his mother touts that last year Trent broke the sit-ups record at Wantagh Elementary.    "He does talk about not being quote-unquote an athlete," his mother said. "Boys will say negative things about him. But he knows he has a gift.""