By Dave Nicholson
Plant City Courier

Former Durant High School cheerleader Tori Moses is back on the sidelines — this time, wearing aqua and blue.

Moses, 26, was recently named to the Miami Dolphins cheerleading squad. Now living in the Fort Lauderdale area, Moses said she decided to get back into cheerleading as a way to have fun.

“I really missed it,” said Moses, who last cheered for Durant, from which she graduated in 2004. “It’s amazing. I’m loving every minute of it.”

After cheering for four years at Durant, Moses went to the University of Florida, where she was a member of the Gators Dazzlers dance team from 2004-2007.

Now Moses is one of 44 cheerleaders on the Dolphins squad, and she’s a natural, according to Emily Newton, cheerleading director and coordinator for the team.

“Tori has really been a great addition, absolutely,” she said.

Getting the call to cheer in the National Football League was exciting for Moses.

“As soon as I found out, was calling and texting everybody I knew,” she said.

Her first game as a Dolphins cheerleader was the Aug. 10 preseason game versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The CBS crew’s cameras focused on her a couple of times, and she heard from lots of people back home.

“They said they saw me on TV. Of course, I was very happy,” she said.

Away from cheerleading, Moses works in a pediatric orthodontist office while she waits to go to school to be a physician’s assistant.

Moses’ mom, Lori Moses, said she and her husband, Chip, were thrilled when she made the Dolphins cheerleading squad. “We’re very proud. She worked very hard.”

[Tori at MiamiDolphinsCheerleader.net]

Last week, the Sports Illustrated NFL cheerleader gallery was all about the AFC. Now it’s time for the ladies of the NFC to shine. Click here to check out the photo gallery.

Click here for more photos of the event on Sun-Sentinel.com.

By Ben Crandell
Sun-Sentinel.com

Ariana Aubert, a 23-year-old Pembroke Pines native, recently spent a couple of hours a day for two weeks staring at photos of Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders in swimsuits.

“Every guy’s dream, right?” she says.

But helping to choose the final lineup for the 2013 Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders Calendar was a serious undertaking for Aubert, who crowned her six-year career as a Fins cheerleader by being on the cover of last year’s calendar (which she introduced at the 2011 party, right). Aubert has moved off the field this season to serve as an assistant to the team’s director of cheerleaders, and the calendar is a key promotional tool for the squad.

First, she had to make sure the calendar had the diversity that a South Florida audience demands. Says the half-Colombian, half-Costa Rican Aubert: “I had to make sure it was well-rounded.” Insert your own punch line here.

She also had to choose from among her friends, some of whom she’d cheered with since 2007: “I just had to put that aside, and put business first.”

The final selection is secret even from Aubert, who will see the new calendar with the rest of us at Saturday night’s unveiling party at Liv nightclub in the Fontainebleau hotel (4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). The evening includes a swimsuit runway show, autograph sessions with each cheerleader in the 16-month calendar, and a special performance by Run-DMC’s Darryl “DMC” McDaniels.

Aubert also had a hand in the event-planning, using her background studying communications and public relations at Florida Atlantic University.

These were not the only pressures facing the Flanagan High grad. Her boyfriend, former Flanagan baseball player J.D. Martinez, is having a rough year with the Houston Astros, where he began the year as one of the team’s budding young stars.

“He just got sent down to the minor leagues,” she says, gloomily. “Triple AAA. Oklahoma City.” A long way from Miami Beach.

Tickets to the calendar party at Liv cost $25 (including a calendar) at MiamiDolphinsCheerleaders.net. You also can order a calendar for $14.99 at the website. Proceeds from the party and the calendar will fund charitable work of the Miami Dolphins Foundation. Here’s a taste of last year’s party:

So for the final portion of the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, the hopefuls returned to the stage for a kickline and to be introduced to the crowd one last time.

Georgia

Tatiana

Amy

Andrea

Briana

A group shot on the club level…

And then down to the field to meet the fans.

[Part Three Gallery]

[MiamiDolphinsCheerleaders.net]

Previously

[MDC Finals - Part One]

[MDC Finals - Part Two]

I’m not exactly a wordsmith so let me just summarize my August 10 visit to photograph the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders in one word “WOW”. This squad is impressive, the main criteria for selection must be: “Total Package Required”. The NFL is designed for teams to experience peaks and valleys on the field but the MDC, like many of their counterparts, never seem to field an average group. The 2012 lineup consists of 44 professional women evenly divided between veterans and rookies.

The Dolphins web site is fan friendly and does a nice job in showcasing the cheerleaders. A bountiful collection of photos and videos are available. At pre game about a dozen of the cheerleaders were welcoming fans outside the Sun Life gates for photo opportunities and autograph signings.

During the game when the showers arrived (and they always do) I had to decide to either whimp out and protect my equipment or keep shooting the cheerleaders dancing in the rain. FRANKLY, SCARLETT, I DON”T GIVE A DAMN about the camera. NFL cheerleaders performing in the rain— a no-brainer.

Try and get out visiting with the cheerleaders in person, in the meantime enjoy the photos and watch for the “Call Me Maybe” gals swimsuit calendar release this week.

Five-year vet, two-year line captain Amy with rookie Georgia

Line captain Samantha

Second-year vet Ashley

First quarter walk in

Line captain Tatiana

Nikki

Vet Natalie D and rookie Karina at training camp

Vet Brianne

[MDC Gallery]

[MiamiDolphinsCheerleaders.net]

Swim Week, Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, and Ultra Music Festival Clash at Lila Nikole
Miami New Times
July 23, 2012

Miami’s not exactly a city that treasures its quiet, subtle beauty. If you want to be noticed, you’ve gotta do something outrageous to steal the spotlight from someone or something equally stunning and/or insane. Those stakes are doubled during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, when out-of-town designers and models join the ongoing war for attention.

So we get the impulse behind Lila Nikole’s “Electrika” Swim Week show, which paired two of Miami’s most in-your-face assets — Ultra Music Festival and the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders — on the runway. That combination is sure to get you noticed.

Let’s just say these looks were indeed noticeable…

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Photos from the show:
[Miami New Times]

[In the Scene Miami]

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From December 2011 – Tatiana of the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders