Skills
- Vault: 1.5 twisting Yurchenko
- Balance Beam: Back-handspring followed by 3 layout stepouts; two back-handsprings to full-in dismount.
- Floor Exercise: Double layout; whip, back handspring, 2.5 twist, punch front (combination); piked full-in back out; double twist-punch front through to double tuck (back-to-back tumbling run). On floor, Dawes was known for her exhausting and technically intricate back-to-back tumbling passes.
Her music for floor routines was:
- 1994: Malagueña by Stanley Black Orchestra
- 1996: Ukrainian Fantasy & Near the Valley by Kovriga Balalaika Orchestra
- 2000: Samba by Armik
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