LaSalle Dancer Chosen for Raptors Dance Pak
Beatrice Fantoni
The Windsor Star
LaSalle dancer Holly Holmes is headed to Toronto to join the Toronto Raptors’ cheerleading squad.
Holmes garnered the highest number of votes through social media in a two-week competition, after being shortlisted along with eight other dancers, for a one-year contract with the basketball team’s Dance Pak.
Another local dancer, Nicole Nouvion, was among the runners up.
Holmes was on her way home from Toronto on Tuesday night. The squad held its first rehearsal of the season on Monday.
Holmes, who is also pursuing a nursing degree at the University of Windsor and teaches at dance studios in Windsor and Chatham, told The Star at the start of the voting she decided to put her nursing degree on hold to pursue more dance opportunities like this one.
The finalists were chosen from more than 250 Dance Pak hopefuls at a group audition in Toronto in July.
