Duncanville's Anne Dancy Named First Runner-Up in Winter Carnival Queen Competition

HOUGHTON, MI (02/08/2011)(readMedia)-- Anne Dancy was named first runner-up for Michigan Technological University's 2011 Winter Carnival queen competition. She'll be participating in the week-long festivities in the annual celebration of snow and ice in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

This year's theme is "Thousands of Pages Unfold in the Bitter Cold," and temperatures have made the title accurate. Dancy is a biomedical engineering major with concentrations in premedical studies and international Spanish, and she is also vice president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

Dancy will be enjoying the many events, including skits, human dogsled races, snow volleyball, and the famous snow statue building. Classes at Michigan Tech are cancelled Thursday and Friday, so the student engineers can finish their statue masterpieces all night Wednesday and then recuperate. The weekend culiminates in ice hockey and a fireworks display Saturday night.

Dancy is a graduate of Ursuline Academy of Dallas, and is the daughter of Joseph and Victoria Dancy of Duncanville.