Purple Team North (Vote for the Girls USA)

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 three 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, Kendra Ray, Rachael Passalt, and Donna Doogan respectively attended Iowa, Minnesota 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).

Former moderators

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