Who We Are
The National Collegiate Breaking Association is a non-profit organization that was started in April of 2022 as an initiative by Peter Chang and Susanna Liu to help support collegiate breaking clubs and create a national framework for intercollegiate competition. The flagship events of the NCBA are the summertime Leadership Summit for college club leaders and the competitive Breaking Championship Series. The inaugural year saw the active participation of over 200 college breakers from 30 different colleges across the US.
PETER CHANG
Peter Chang (Bboy Peach) grew up in East Tennessee, where he developed an interest in breaking at a young age but never had a community to learn from until he went to college.
In 2014, he joined Harvard Breakers and started attending his first jams. In 2016, he threw the first Battle for Boston, one of the major intercollegiate events on the east coast. Since then he also co-founded the Practice Terrain Battle Series in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region (DMV) before co-founding the National Collegiate Breaking Association along with Queen NV.
As a competitor, Peach travelled extensively post-college, notably placing 2nd at the 2019 Radikal Forze footwork competition and being invited to the 2022 Red Bull BC1 Southeast Regional.
SUSANNA LIU
Susanna Liu (Queen NV) started breaking in college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003 where she started organizing events, including the first documented intercollegiate breaking battle, and developed into one of the best bgirls in the nation.
After moving to New York City, she started Breaks U in 2007 in collaboration with NYU, which became the largest intercollegiate breaking battle in the country and spurred on the development of many other intercollegiate battles. Her work with the NCBA is a continuation of decades worth of contributions to the collegiate scene. Queen NV represents Supreme Beingz crew and Florox Crew.
ANNA PONCE
Anna Leah Ponce (Duck-e) grew up in California and started breaking in high school. It was when she went to college at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in 2008 where she started to learn more about breaking and the community.
She eventually became president of the breaking club at LMU, where she led the event, Schools 4 Fools. After graduating, she continued to organize the event for several years. In 2017, she started the Unified Collegiate Breaking League, also known as UCBL, which became an official organization hosting the largest West Coast intercollegiate breaking competition. Duck-e joins NCBA to help further support the intercollegiate breaking scene as the West Coast regional director.
AMBASSADORS
The NCBA Ambassadors will serve as mentors for collegiate breaking clubs in their respective regions and strive to connect and immerse students with the breaking community. They have years of experience with breaking, leading collegiate breaking clubs, organizing events, and more! If you are a member or leader of your local breaking club, please feel free to contact your region's Ambassador for support and resources!
If you are interested in being an ambassador, please reach out to us at collegiatebreaking@gmail.com
Alex Kal
Alex "Full Kal" Kal is a bboy heavily invested in the NJ community. He previously led the Rutgers club, RUBreaks, and hosted the first Break Melee. NJ
Albi Taipi
Albi "Albi Damned" Taipi is a Detroit-based bboy who previously was the president of the Wayne State breaking club, Warrior Mode.Detroit
Abdul Akiba
Abdul "Rawberry" Akiba is a longstanding contributor to the DMV breaking scene via his Raw Breaking Collective community events.DMV
Austin Wang
Austin "Funkyman" Wang is an up and comer out of Boston/Seattle. Austin is currently based at University of Washington after several years in San Diego.Seattle / SoCal
Henry Zhou
Henry Zhou is a Michigan bboy from Canton and currently based out of Detroit. He is an advisor for E1 (U Michigan) and is an alum of MSU’s Spartan Breakers.Michigan
JP Henares
Boston / CT
JP "Hiro" Henares is a Connecticut bboy currently living in Boston. JP is the organizer of Style2Roc and is a former leader of the UConn breaking club.
Kevin Wu
NYC
Kevin "Kaywu" Wu is a Virginia bboy currently based in NYC. He has organized jams such as Rep Your Cause and was the former president of UVA Hooligans.Luis Prado
SoCal
Luis “Lprad” Prado is a bboy and promoter based out of San Diego. He is the creative mind behind Break-NG and is heavily involved in both local and national communities.
Peter Fan
Boston
Peter "Serious Pete" Fan is a Boston bboy heavily engaged in the education of newer breakers. He currently serves as the coach for NU breakers.Jathun Somasundaram
North Cali
Jathun “J-Tunez” Somasundaram is a bboy based in the California Bay Area. He was a prior president of SLO Breakers and has helped revitalize collegiate breaking post-Covid.
Thomas Chang
Thomas Chang is a former president of Harvard Breakers who has spent time across different communities such as Boston, LA, and now lives in NYC.
NYC
Anthony Le
PA
Anthony “Laid” Le is a bboy and DJ from Philadelphia. He is the former president of Penn State’s RAM Squad and is active across the East Coast as both a bboy and DJ.
Nick Kim
Nick "Young Chan" Kim is the former president of UMD’s B-Terps. He actively competes as a bboy and as an MC works on bringing the ENERGY to local jams.DMV
Web Dev Team
Aidan Capan
Rutgers University
Kim Lao
Rutgers University
Yasseen Rouni
Temple University
Initial web build and design by Christine Wang (christine.y.wang95@gmail.com)
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