At the age of four, Colleen started her dancing career with Canadian step dancing, traditional and Ottawa Valley styles.  She began old time square dancing shortly thereafter.  During her younger years, she competed at many step dancing and square dancing competitions throughout Ontario and won several awards during that time.  In 1979, Colleen started clogging with the Ontario Rhythm Cloggers, in Cambridge, Ontario, as well as modern square dancing with the Howick Country Squares.  In recent years, she has taken Celtic, ballroom and tap dancing lessons and, after a long hiatus, has returned to Ottawa Valley style step dancing.

 

Since she began clogging, Colleen has danced with many groups including:  the Kountry Kickin' Kids, the Cambridge Connection Cloggers, the Stars in Motion Cloggers. the Swift Kickin' Cloggers and the Can-Am Cloggers (a competition group).  As a member of the Can-Am Cloggers, she has won the Canadian Open Clogging Competition several times. In 2001, Colleen started her own clogging club, the Kitcheloo Kloggers, in Kitchener, Ontario and in 2005, she took over the leadership of the Stars in Motion Cloggers, in Brantford, Ontario.

 

Colleen joined the Western New York Cloggers Association in 2009 and became a member of the Board of Directors in 2015.

 

In November of 2010, Colleen became one of the elite few clogging directors in Canada who has taken and passed the course to become a Certified Clogging Instuctor.  She is also a member of the CCI team who teaches and mentors new students taking the course.