A Profile on Dr. Nina: A Former National Challenge Champion and Olympic Prospect

We all know Dr. Nina swing dances. However, until recently, nobody knew her true skill level. I was lucky enough to sit down with Dr. Nina and interview her about her storied past.

“Well, it all began at a young age when my parents enrolled me in Ms. Fickles' Swing Dancing Academy,” described Dr. Nina. She then described how every day, after school, she would train for five to eight hours. Then, when she began to compete, she just couldn’t stop winning. An eleven-time youth national champion, at 18, she became the youngest ever national phenom. After winning four straight national championships, an injury ended her career, forcing her to make a relatively lateral move into academia.

“Well, it really challenged me…in fact, I got into biology because I wanted to try and cure my injury faster,” which is why Dr. Nina has her well-established—but little-known—secret lab in CPS’s underground catacombs, accessed via a microscopic button hidden in a safe disguised as a key ring near Linh’s desk.

After masterminding her own recovery, Dr. Nina is back and looking to compete in the 2028 Olympics. After a dominant run in the 2025 national championships, the swing-dancing consensus is that Dr. Nina is back, and the question is no longer who will win the event, but who’s getting second. We might have a new Olympian on campus very soon.