Background
As a child, she enjoyed watching and copying dancers on television so her mother agreed to take her to dance classes where she did folk dancing for four years.
As a child, she enjoyed watching and copying dancers on television so her mother agreed to take her to dance classes where she did folk dancing for four years.
Originally from Russia, she began dancing at the early age of seven. She then moved into ballroom dancing. Foreign financial reasons, she could not afford to dance both Ballroom and Latin and so at the age of 16 she chose to pursue Latin.
At the age of 21 she decided to move to America, and partnered with Maxim Kozhevnikov.
Together they became the United States National Professional Champions. In the fall of 2007, she began dancing with Riccardo Cocchi.
They are ranked #1 in the world for Professional Latin.
At age 12, she earned her first major title in Russia when she became the Russian Junior National Champion. Zagoruychenko and Cocchi won their first World Latin Dance Championship in 2010, and earned their second title in 2011. They recently won their 5th consecutive United States National Professional Latin Champions title at the United States Open Dance Competition.
