In 2026, Tracy Sandon enters her eighth season as Firestorm Head Dance Coach.
Coach Sandon was hired by Arizona Christian University to head up the first ever competitive dance program in May, 2019.
While at ACU, Sandon has grown the dance program immensely. The team began competing at the USA Collegiate Championships in 2022. Under her direction the team won 2nd in D2/D3 Jazz in 2023. They won 3rd in D2/D3 Jazz in 2024. In 2025 they won 2nd in both Jazz and Hiphop in D2/D3 and this past February, 2026 the team won 2nd in Hiphop and 4th in Jazz. Next up, the team will be competing at the NDA College Dance Nationals in Daytona, Florida.Â
In college, Sandon auditioned for the Arizona Cardinals cheer team and was invited to the Cardinal’s camp before being sidelined with multiple knee surgeries. In 2005, with a friend, Sandon opened a dance studio in Glendale, AZ, starting with just 50 dancers and one dance room, it soon grew to three dance rooms, 16 teachers and hundreds of competition and recreational dancers.
As a member in the Varsity Spiritline at Apollo High School and as a Universal Dance Association Dance Allstar, Sandon began her choreographing career working with dancers in the high school theatre department.
Sandon has a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University, a master’s degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix and is currently working toward a second master’s degree in secondary education.
Tracy is married to Jesse Sandon, her husband of 22 years with three children: Drew 20, Evan 18 and Clarissa 9. Sandon loves to travel, play with her pugs, read, and is obsessed with listening to audio books.
