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After dancing with the President, 107-year-old Virginia McLaurin dances with Globetrotters

Posted at 5:05 PM, Mar 16, 2016
and last updated 2016-03-16 17:11:05-04

You may remember Virginia McLaurin, she’s the then 106-year-old woman who stole the hearts of many last month, while dancing with the President and the First Lady at the White House.

Well, McLaurin just celebrated her 107 birthday and she’s still dancing, this time with the Harlem Globetrotters.

Harlem Globetrotters Moose Weekes and Zeus McClurkin paid McLaurin a visit at Roots Public Charter School in Washington D.C. where McLaurin volunteers as a foster grandmother.

McLaurin showed the Globetrotters some of her dance moves while they performed some of their famous tricks.

“I’m really excited about it,” she said. “I didn’t think I’d ever get the chance to meet them, but I always watched them. I used to try to what they do with the balls, but it didn’t work.

The basketball duo presented McLaurin with her very own No. 107 jersey, a birthday cake and donated 107 tickets for Roots students to attend a Globetrotter game.

In the video released by the Globetrotters, McLaurin also told the kids, who call her Grandma, to always listen to their parents and get all the education they can get.