Blinn College

Sarah Barland Flisowski is in her 15th year as the Blinn College head cheer and dance coach.

The Blinn College dance and cheers teams have won numerous American Dance and Drill Team collegiate championships, 13 national titles at the National Dance Alliance (NDA) College Nationals, seven national tiles at the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) College Nationals, and the All Girl championship at the NJCAA Competitive Cheer Invitational.

Last season, the Buccaneer dance team repeated its success from 2024 with two title victories at the NDA College Nationals. The Bucs earned victories in the Pom Junior College Division as well as the Dance Spirit Rally Open.

Additionally, 2025 saw the Blinn cheer team host and compete in the NJCAA's first competitive dual meet with Navarro College before the Bucs went on to win the All Girl division title at the very first NJCAA Competitive Cheer Invitational in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 2024, the Blinn dance team made history by capturing the program's 10th and 11th NDA national championships with  victories in the Team Dance and Pom Open finals at the NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla.

In 2023, the Blinn dance team earned its ninth NDA championship with a victory in the Pom Open finals.

Blinn’s dance team made history in 2019 by claiming national titles in Dance Team Performance Open and Pom Division II.

Barland Flisowski is a former member of the Blinn dance team and a graduate of Southwest Texas State University – now Texas State University – in San Marcos, Texas, with a degree in exercise sports science and minor in political science. She also was a member of the dance company Orchesis. She earned her master’s in physical education and health from Prairie View A&M University.

Barland Flisowski started her teaching career at Mesquite ISD, where she taught for two years at Berry Middle school. She went on to Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD to become the director of the award-winning RL Turner Lionettes and dance department head. She was the director of the Lionettes for seven years before returning to Blinn as the head coach of the Blinn College dance and cheer teams.

Barland Flisowski also is a 20-year staff member with American Dance and Drill Team School, where she has been the Novelty Staff Captain and Social Officer Coordinator.  She has traveled to Florida as a member of ESP Productions, the halftime production company of the Citrus Bowl, for over 10 years. Barland Flisowski has been a speaker at Drill Team Directors of America and Texas Dance Educators Association conferences. She is a member of NDCA, the National Dance Coaches Association where she is an executive board member, college division representative and on the Small College Committee. She has done choreography for high schools all around Texas and beyond and loves working with all dancers and helping them find their place in college dance.

Sarah and her husband, Dax Flisowski, make their home in Brenham with their daughter, Kate.