Lindsay Arnold

Lindsay Arnold Cusick is a professional Latin and ballroom dancer. She was a contestant on television's "So You Think You Can Dance" at the age of 18 and advanced to the top eight finalists. She performed in the 30-city tour throughout the nation, then became a professional dancer and choreographer on the ABC show "Dancing with the Stars" during season 16.

Arnold was born on January 11, 1994, in Provo, Utah. She began training as a dancer at the age of four. Among her awards, she placed 1st place in both the United States Open Youth Latin Championships and the United States Open Junior Latin Championships, she was a top 3 finalist at the World Junior Latin Team Match, a top 5 finalist at the World Cup Latin Junior Championships, and a top 5 finalist at the United States Junior National 10 dance Championships.

She married her high school sweetheart, Samuel Cusick, on June 18, 2015, in the Salt Lake Temple. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In September 2022, she announced that she would step away from "Dancing with the Stars." She had given birth to her first child, a daughter, in November 2020. She gave birth to her second daughter in May 2023.

Reflecting on her decision to step back from the dancing competition that helped her rise to fame, Arnold says that the biggest factor was her family, noting “everything changed in the best way” as she welcomed her first child.

“A lot of my priorities and where I wanted to spend my time ... it just shifted,” she explains. “My mindset shifted. Time goes 10 times faster when you have kids, and I just know that this time is so precious and something that you don't get back.”

After winning season 25 alongside Jordan Fisher and participating in four more seasons, she felt ready [to leave the show].

“I did want to have a sense of accomplishment within the show knowing that, ‘Okay, if we do have kids and I don't come back, do I feel like I fulfilled what I hope to do?’ I did feel like I was at that point. We honestly were probably past the point of being ready. We were like, ‘Okay, we really want this now,’ and I'm glad we waited for that time because it felt so right for us.”[1]

Since then, she has she turned to content creation on social media, where she boasts almost 2 million followers across Instagram and TikTok. She also developed The Movement Club.