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Nets Dancers in China
From the Nets Dancers Blog:
Mandee’s Blog – May 20, 2012
Making New FriendsHey Nets fans, it’s Mandee!
Sadly our time in Guangzhou is coming to an end. Today we had a final appearance for Lenovo at a local mall. We participated in interviews and performed dance routines for our fans who filled the four levels of the mall to cheer us on.
Meeting our fans and a local dance team were highlights of our visit. The mall was filled with tremendous energy, and it was a great way to end a successful trip!
After our performance we had time to go shopping at the Mouse Street Shopping Center, also know as “Women’s Street.” We were able to purchase locally produced items and experience the culture and different styles of China.
Our night ended with a team dinner at the hotel. We reminisced about our time in Guangzhou and how fortunate we were to have this opportunity to perform for our fans in China once again. We had a great time, and we hope to come back soon!
Mandee
Check out the rest of the posts from China and see some video of the Nets Dancers in Action.
Nets Dancers, Team Hype and The Nets Kids
A trip to Prudential Center is always more than just a trip to see a basketball game. Last month I traveled to Newark to see the entertainers who take center court when the players take a break:
2011-12 Nets Dancers
The New Jersey Nets website has been updated with new photos and info for the 2011 Nets Dancers. Click here to check it out!
Everyone Has a Story: Former NBA cheerleader, now librarian in Egg Harbor Township, promotes reading as ‘The Book Babe’
By MICHELLE BRUNETTI POST, Staff Writer
Press of Atlantic City
Sun Oct 16, 2011
When Melissa J. Collesano, of Galloway Township, was a professional dancer and cheerleader for sports teams such as the New Jersey Nets, fans were often shocked to learn about her day job.
“Here I am in my glitter and pompoms,” Collesano said of times when she talked to fans and signed autographs. “They couldn’t believe I was actually a librarian.”
So when she started a business to promote reading, and the children’s books she’s written, she wanted to make it fun and show her “sassy side.” And the Book Babe website and blog were born, she said.
Collesano, 39, has written, illustrated, and self-published two books: “Pheobe McKeeby’s Garden Apartment,” about generosity, and “Pheobe McKeeby in ‘I Promise I’ll Take Care of the Dog,'” about responsibility. The librarian at Fernwood Avenue Middle School in Egg Harbor Township since 2005 also plans a series of character trait books.
Collesano began cheering in second grade and was the first cheerleader inducted into her hometown’s athletic hall of fame in Elmwood Park, Bergen County, she said. Her husband, Pete, is a gym teacher at Eagle Academy in Egg Harbor Township. They met when he was the football coach and she was the cheerleading coach at a high school in North Jersey. They have a 1-year-old son.
She will be featured in Authors’ Alley during the 2011 New Jersey Education Association Convention, Nov. 10 to 11 at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
Walking for the cure
Southern Regional High School special education/English teacher Dawn Bischoff, of the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township, is walking 60 miles this weekend in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure, which started Saturday. She and two other women on her Soul Sistas team will join thousands of women walking through Philadelphia, sleeping along the route. Bischoff’s team has already raised more than $7,726 for Komen’s programs to help women with breast cancer.
Everyone Has a Story appears Sundays, Mondays, and Wednesdays.
Contact Michelle Brunetti Post:
609-272-7219, Michelle.Post@pressofac.com
‘The Book Babe’
For information on Melissa J. Collesano’s books and her blog, visit www.bookbabe.net
Nets Dancers Finals
And the routine he taught was ambitious to say the least:
Congratulations 2011-12 Nets Dancers
Nets Dancers Auditions began last Sunday in Manhattan, moved to Brooklyn on Saturday, and finished at the Nets Practice Facility last night.
Three familiar faces you may recognize on the new squad: