2024 Clogger of the Year - Rebecca Thomas & Kayla Barton

This year the TCC presented two Clogger of the Year awards!

Rebecca “Becca” Thomas began clogging as a child and competing at national dance competitions. While a student at Texas A&M University, Becca started her own clogging group known as the Wildfire Cloggers. She then joined the TCC and went on to attend the Texas Leadership and Development Program. After moving to the Houston area for work, Becca was recruited by the late Lola Beaty to join Collective Sound Cloggers (CSC). In addition to being part of CSC, Becca enthusiastically took on teaching both the kids’ and adult clogging classes this year. She loves to teach clogging and is very talented at choreographing and teaching all levels. Becca serves the TCC as a Texas instructor at Rally, current editor of The Texas Clogger, she served on a Step in Time subcommittee, is the 2025 Rally Exhibition Vice Chair, and is serving as the 2026 Rally Chair.

Kayla Barton also began dancing as a child but didn’t begin clogging until she was a teenager, at which time it became her favorite form of dance. Since moving to the Houston area in 2008, Kayla has clogged with both Texas Lovin’ Cloggers and Collective Sound Cloggers (CSC). She currently serves as co-director of CSC and has previously taught both kids’ and adult clogging classes. She has been a longtime member of the TCC and completed the Texas Leadership and Development Program in 2015. Kayla has been a Texas instructor at Rally, served as Exhibition Vice Chair in 2020 and 2024, is the current TCC Education Director, serves on the TCC Scholarship Committee, is the 2025 Rally Chair, and will serve as Exhibition Vice Chair again in 2026.

Congratulations to both Becca and Kayla!

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Past Recipients