Purple Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)

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Purple Team North
Conference Women's
League Vote for the Girls
Founded 2017
No. of teams 4

The Purple Team North is a division in the Vote for the Girls Moderators Conference. It was created prior to the ninth season in the fall of 2017, when VFTG realigned the Purple, Pink, Red, and Blue Teams into the newly created North and divisions to join the East and West divisions in each of the the sub-conferences.

The Purple Team North currently has four moderators:

Moderator City/Town
Sheena Anderston College Park, Maryland/Washington, D.C.
Rachael Passalt Minneapolis, Minnesota
Christina Winfrey Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cincinnati, Ohio
Ava Zinn Van Buren/Fort Wayne, Indiana

The Purple Team North currently has four member moderators: Ava Zinn, Rachael Passalt, Christina Winfrey, and Sheena Anderston as of the thirteenth season. Donna Doogan and duo moderators Kendra Ray & Hannah Wilson were formerly in the division from 2017 to 2021. Prior to the ninth season, Kendra Ray belonged to the Purple Team West (2015-16) and Pink Team West (2016-17), while Zinn was part of the Purple Team/geographically inaccurate Purple Team West from 2010 to 2017 and Julia Passalt & Rachael Passalt from 2014-2017.

The Purple Team North is often known as the "Purple Team Big Ten West" due to its geographical similarity to the Big Ten Conference West. As such, Ava Zinn and formerly Donna Doogan are respectively the nieces of former municipal mayors in Columbia City, Indiana (Joesph Zickgraf) and Columbus, Ohio (Greg Lashutka). Additionally at the time Passalt, Winfrey, Anderston, Ray, and Doogan respectively attended Minnesota, Michigan State, Maryland, Iowa, and Ohio State Universities (all Big Ten Schools) while Zinn attended Indiana Wesleyan University, Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne, and pending approval for Purdue University's Fort Wayne campus.

The Purple Team North is one of the few divisions from the 2017 realignment until 2021 to have each of its moderators have a moderator victory in one particular season: Rachael Passlt (So You Think You Can Dance 14), Ava Zinn (The Voice 13), Kendra & Hannah (American Idol 16), and Donna & Tim (Dancing with the Stars 27) as the respective supported contestants were announced as the winners of these competitions: Lex Ishimoto (with Koine Iwasaki, Taylor Sieve, and Chris "Kiki" Nyemchek giving Passalt her first win), Chloe Kohanski (with Addison Agen giving Zinn her 15th win), Maddie Poppe (with Caleb Lee Hutchinson giving Ray her second win and Wilson's first).

The Purple Team North is also one of the few divisions to have a moderator victory on Dancing with the Stars as Kendra Ray won the 20th season (Rumer Willis), Ava Zinn won the 21st season (Bindi Irwin), Donna Doogan won the 27th season (Bobbby Bones), and Rachael Passalt winning the 28th season (Hannah Wilson).

Division lineups[edit]

Purple Team North Division
Years
17-18 [N 1] [N 2] [N 3] 18-19 [N 4] 19-20 [N 5] 20-21 23-24
Donna & Tim Doogan [T] Donna Doogan [D] Sheena Anderston
Rachael Passalt [P]
Kendra & Hannah [K] Chris Winfrey
Ava Zinn [AZ] Ava & Marti [M] Ava Zinn
  •      Moderator not in division
  •      Division's Supported Female Contestant Won Competition
  •      Division's Supported Female Contestant Declared Runner-Up
  •      Division's Supported Male Flex Pick Won Competition
  •      Division's Supported Male Flex Pick Declared Runner-up
  •      Division's Supported Female Contestant Was Last Female Eliminated
  •      Division's Supported Female Contestant's Loss Declined via Moderators' Save
P Moved from the Purple Team West in the fall of 2017.
K Moved from the Pink Team West in the fall of 2017, returning to the Purple Team. Died on June 1, 2023.
AZ Moved from the Purple Team West in the fall of 2017.
M Marti joined Ava from the Pink Team South in 2020 before leaving the panel that year.
T Moved from the Purple Team East in the fall of 2017 and moved to the Purple Team North in the fall of 2018.
D Tim Doogan died in February 2019. Moved to Pink Team North in 2024.
  1. Rachael Passalt was decalred the winning moderator as her flex pick was announced the winner of the fourteenth season of So You Think You Can Dance.
  2. Ava Zinn was decalred the winning moderator as Chloe Kohanski was announced the winner and Addison Agen was announced the runner-up of the thirteenth season of The Voice.
  3. Kendra Ray was decalred the winning moderator as Maddie Poppe was announced the winner of the sixteenth season of American Idol.
  4. Donna Doogan was decalred the winning moderator as her flex pick was announced the winner of the twenty-seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Chevel Sheperd was announced the winner of the fifteenth season of The Voice, her flex pick was announced the winner of the seventeenth season of American Idol, and Maelyn Jarmon was announced the winner of the sixteenth season of The Voice.
  5. Rachael Passalt was decalred the winning moderator as Hannah Brown was announced the winner of the twenty-eighth season of Dancing with the Stars.

Former moderators[edit]

Moderator City/Town Debut Departure Note(s) Current Moderator Current Division
Donna Doogan Columbus, Ohio/Jacksonville, Florida 2017 2021 Moved to the Pink Team North in 2024 N/A Pink Team North
Kendra & Hannah Kendra Ray Ames, Iowa 2017 2021 deceased, died on June 1, 2023
Hannah Wilson Lincoln, Nebraska 2017 2021

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