Will this Alaskan be the first U.S. Olympic breakdancer?
Bri “Snap1” Pritchard is a b-girl from Anchorage eyeing the 2024 Olympics in France.
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Will this Alaskan be the first U.S. Olympic breakdancer?
Season 11 Episode 6 | 3m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Bri “Snap1” Pritchard is a b-girl from Anchorage eyeing the 2024 Olympics in France.
Bri “Snap1” Pritchard is a b-girl from Anchorage who has competed and won breaking competitions across the country. She dances with the crews, Flooristas and Elements of Rhythm, but she hopes to make it on the national team and represent Team USA at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. She’s doing all of this while balancing her career with the Alaska Army National Guard.
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Will this Alaskan be the first U.S. Olympic breakdancer?
Season 11 Episode 6 | 3m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Bri “Snap1” Pritchard is a b-girl from Anchorage who has competed and won breaking competitions across the country. She dances with the crews, Flooristas and Elements of Rhythm, but she hopes to make it on the national team and represent Team USA at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. She’s doing all of this while balancing her career with the Alaska Army National Guard.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipTo qualify for Team USA you can do it one of two ways: Two go to the first and second place and then the other two go to who has the most points.
Right now, I'm number two with points.
My name is Brianna Pritchard.
I am 30 years old.
I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.
I am actually Alaskan Native.
I'm Tlingit and I am a breakdancer.
My b-girl name is b-girl Snap1.
Snap is for the double jointedness and then the one was added because for most of my breaking career, I've been the only b-girl in Alaska.
I am in the Alaska Army National Guard, so I'm a full-time helicopter mechanic.
This is where I mainly sit as the crew chief.
I've been doing that for 11 years.
Pretty long time.
Military life and hip-hop life, you think about them...yeah they're definitely two opposite spectrums here.
On the military side of things you learn discipline, sacrificing, an agenda, a schedule, like you have to make things happen; but then also on the street in the hip-hop side of things you learn how to be open-minded, free-spirited, thinking for yourself.
I want to be the bridge between the two to show that you can actually really do both.
I just got back from a deployment.
I was deployed to Iraq for all of 2021.
I basically just trained and practiced; like I danced by myself, lifted a lot of weights, conditioned my body, did what I could so that when I came back I could be battle-ready.
I was kind of coming back in with not really a good repertoire in my mind, but I won my first jam that I came back to.
It just made me realize all my hard work really did pay off.
The champion right here, Snap1.
Before breaking, I was a really avid athlete.
I always did want to be an Olympian.
i thought that those sports would maybe get me into college and then take me to the Olympics but then when I found breaking I stopped all that.
I gave it all up because I love breaking so much.
When they announced that breaking was going to be in the Olympics I was obviously over the moon.
A dream of mine that was basically non-existent, dead if you will, because it wasn't possible, is now possible again.
The Olympics are only going to take two people from each country, but to be on Team USA is really what I want in life.
It is a long shot for any of us to be going to the Olympics, that's a very slim margin.
If I make Team USA, that's going to be a dream come true.
