Stough auditions for New York Jets Flight Crew
New York Jet Flight Crew auditioners from left to right: Jalyn Stough, Christina Miller and Ali Difiore pose for a picture at the Metlife Stadium in New York Sunday at semifinals.
Tristate-Media.com
April 15, 2015
PRINCETON—Princeton native Jalyn Stough, 19, could soon be on the sidelines cheering for the NFL’s New York Jets.
Stough has an interview today with judges and next Thursday is the final round where all those remaining will dance for judges a final time and find out if she made the cut.
Out of the 200 women who started only 67 remain and only 40 will be chosen.
After the 40 women are chosen they’ll go to summer training and cheer at all 10 home games along with other charity or public events.
For auditions they had to do improv, kick lines, dances by the flight crew, interviews and more.
Stough said this has always been something she wanted to try, but being “on the field made it more real.”
She said the hardest part was the preparation and not knowing what to expect.
Stough had watched TV show “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team” and it gave her a little insight into auditioning.
She thought the Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleaders auditions were intense and hers were also “that intense.”
Her college classes at Marymount Manhattan College, a liberal arts college in Manhattan, New York also helped her with the improv portion of try-outs.
As a part of applying auditioners must be a full-time student or worker since they’re ambassadors of the team.
Stough said school won’t interfere with the flight crew as she scheduled her classes for in the morning giving her time later in the day to practice and cheer at games at night.
“I think I can handle it,” she said.
The opportunity came about when she was surfing the web she came across auditions for the New York Jets Flight Crew after some thought she decided to send in her resume.
Her resume highlighted that she was a cheerleader at Princeton Community Middle and High School and a co-captain for two years.
While Stough had applied for the opportunity a month before auditioning some girls had been preparing for auditions for a year or so.
Half of the girls had auditioned before and were on the flight crew previously.
Former flight crew members have to tryout every year.
Stough said she’s one of the youngest of those auditioning majority of the girls are ages 22-28, but she feels pretty good that she’s made it this far for her first time applying.
When it comes to goals Stough has a lot of different things in mind no matter the outcome of auditioning.
She wants to minor in business management or public speaking, open her own studio and more.
“It will all fall together,” she said.
Stough said she’s doing things that make her happy and is going from there.
“It’s a different experience,” she said. “When I think about it I’m still in shock I made it this far.”
