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Maritime lawyer has second job as Miami Warmth dancer and group captain
Chelsea Varsaci, a lawyer and a member of the Miami Warmth dance group. (Picture by Cristina Sullivan/The Miami Warmth)
Regulation agency affiliate Chelsea Varsaci has knowledgeable and a efficiency life, and she or he wouldn’t have it some other means.
Varsaci, 32, spends daytime as a maritime affiliate at Foreman Friedman in Miami, a job that includes time in court docket, in addition to the workplace. Within the night, she takes to the basketball court docket as a dancer and a dance captain for the NBA’s Miami Warmth.
The Miami Herald has the story, republished within the Tampa Bay Occasions.
“Once I’m at work, I’m at work. I’m 100% lawyer Chelsea reporting for obligation,” Varsaci advised the newspaper. “In direction of the top of the day, if I’ve video games or observe, that’s after I’ll begin switching and grow to be that Warmth dancer.”

Regulation agency affiliate Chelsea Varsaci (far left) and the Miami Warmth dancers in 2023 at an NBA basketball second-round playoff sequence between the Miami Warmth and the New York Knicks. (Picture by Wilfredo Lee/The Related Press)
Varsaci is a 2019 graduate of the St. Thomas College Faculty of Regulation in Miami Gardens, Florida. She has been dancing with the Miami Warmth for 9 seasons. Earlier than that, she carried out for a theme park; an area soccer group; and the Miami Dolphins, working as a cheerleader as an alternative of a dancer for the NFL group.
Varsaci advised the Miami Herald that she was “raised to have as many paths as you wished, make your life limitless.” In highschool, she pursued gymnastics and Irish step dancing. She began dancing professionally in faculty.
Varsaci mentioned dancing enhances her abilities as lawyer.
“The qualities of an NBA dancer, having the ability to dance in entrance of 1000’s of individuals, I’ve a presence that I can now deliver into the authorized discipline,” she advised the Miami Herald. “I do know what I can deliver to the desk.”
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