Last season’s Dancing With the Stars named figure-skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi as celebrity ballroom champion for her performances with partner Mark Ballas.

This season’s Dancing With the Stars cast again includes a number of professional athletes. Though, I doubt that volleyball, running, or football give you the sort of dance preparation that Yamaguchi got as a world-class figure skater.

Season 7 Cast:

As a member of pop group *NSYNC, Lance Bass has sold over 50 million records. His full resume includes a number of film and television roles, and he was also certified by NASA and the Russian Space Program to complete a mission aboard a Soyuz capsule. Lance Bass will dance with Lacey Schwimmer, the 2006 U.S. Youth Latin Champ and 2007 World Swing Dance Champ.

After taking six months off for health reasons, six-time Grammy Award winner and actress Toni Braxton will dance with Alec Mazo, the first Dancing With the Stars champion.

Having conquered television, film, business, modeling, and motherhood, Brooke Burke joins Dancing With the Stars to take on ballroom. Brooke teams with Derek Hough, who returns for his third season.

Celebrity chef, author, and winner of the James Beard Award–which Time magazine called “the Oscars of the food world”–Rocco DiSpirito takes a break from the kitchen to team up with Karina Smirnoff, who returns for her fifth season on Dancing With the Stars.

Track champion Maurice Greene, winner of two 2000 Sydney Summer Olympiad gold medals, has earned the title “World’s Fastest Man.” But whether his feet can keep up with his new dance partner Cheryl Burke remains to be seen.

Maybe Kim Kardashian is best known for her part in the E! reality series Keeping up with the Kardashians, and for the fact that her stepfather is Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner. She pairs up this season with the season-6 champion Mark Ballas.

Actress Cloris Leachman’s accomplishments include nine Emmys, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. She takes a break from writing her memoir touring the U.S. with her one-woman show CLORIS! to team up with World Latin Champion Corky Ballas, Mark Ballas’ father.

Preparing to celebrate his 19th birthday in November, Cody Linley is Dancing with the Stars‘ youngest contestant yet. This young actor is best known for his role as Jake Ryan on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Two-time Dancing with the Stars champion Julianne Hough will train Linley, as she returns for her fourth season.

Moving from her ordinary daytime television slot with All My Children, Susan Lucci will compete in this season of Dancing With the Stars. Along with acting, Lucci has performed on Broadway and in cabarets across the country. She will work with Tony Dovolani, who returns for his sixth season.

She has had very little rest following her two gold-medal beach volleyball wins in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. But Misty May-Treanor is ready to team up with Dancing With the Stars veteran Maksim Chmerkovskiy as he returns for his fifth season.

The other actors are joined by Ted McGinley for this season’s Dancing With the Stars. His television credits include Married With Children, Happy Days, The West Wing, Sports Night, Dynasty, and The Love Boat, and his film roles include work in Pearl Harbor, Major League: Back to the Minors, Wayne’s World 2, and Revenge of the Nerds. McGinley will dance with Inna Brayer. Although a Dancing With the Stars rookie, Inna is the current US Amateur 10 Dance Champion.

The “Roastmaster General” Jeffrey Ross, who New York Magazine dubbed The Meanest Man in Comedy may have little to joke about as he learns from Dancing With the Stars‘ Edyta Sliwinska, the only professional to compete in all seven seasons.

Though Superbowl Champion Warren Sapp recently retired, having played defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders during his career, he’s ready to endure more physical punishment as he teams up with fifth-season dancer Kym Johnson.

Judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli, and hosts Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris, will welcome the contestants on Monday, September 22 for the first night of a three-night live premiere event.

If you’re a Dancing With the Stars fan, you can catch the first episode at 8/7c. on ABC.