Ashly DelGrosso grew up in Utah as one of a family of eight kids. Ashly's mother, a keen dancer herself, owns a local dance studio, so it was only natural that Ashly started dancing as soon as she could walk. All of Ashly's siblings, save for one brother, are also dancers.

Growing up, dancing was as natural for Ashly as walking and talking. At the age of 12 Ashly discovered ballroom dancing. She trained in both and won a number of Amateur Ten Dance titles with her amateur partner Jonathan Gulledge.

As a professional dancer, Ashly partnered Rick Robinson with whom she won the Holiday Rising Star Champion title, as well as reaching the semi-finalist round in the Rising Star section of the ballroom world's biggest competition in Blackpool, England.

--ABC