This will probably be my last visit with the Wings Angels this season. One more regular home season game tomorrow, but it’s conflicting with Redskins Cheerleaders Finals.
Although there is still the outside chance of one or more home playoff games.
So this will probably be time to say good-bye to Cary and April who are retiring from the team.
And Kristina is also hanging up her poms. She’s getting married in July.
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The Warrior Girls, the official dance team of the Golden State Warriors, hosted their first-ever alumni night during the team’s game against the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. Eighty former Warrior Girls, including members of the original 1985 dance team, joined the 18 current dancers for a pre-game gathering and special halftime routine. This choreographed routine featured alumni from each individual era performing to their music from the ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s, with all 98 Warrior Girls joining together to conclude the performance. (Photo Credits: Jack Arent/NBA Entertainment)
Eighty Warrior Girls alumni, including seven members of the original Warrior Girls dance team in 1985, celebrated the dance team’s 28 season with the Warriors Girls Alumni Weekend and halftime performance
At halftime, all 98 current and former Warrior Girls assembled on court to dance to Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud”
After an original performance from the current Warrior Girls, dance team alumni since 2000 took the court to dance to Beyonce’s Crazy in Love, followed by WG’s from the 1990’s dancing to MC Hammer’s Can’t Touch This and the original Warrior Girls dancing to Michael Jackson’s P.Y.T.
As a finale, all 98 Warrior Girls united to perform Beyonce’s Run The World
Kings Vision was on hand for the 12-13 Ice Crew calendar photo shoot! Check out this profile featuring Ms. February, Jessica.
More than 60 Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders hopefuls, both veterans and finalists, tried out for a panel of judges Wednesday night in downtown Atlanta and the 2013 Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders have been named.
In front of a panel of judges at Terminal West at King Plow Arts Center in downtown Atlanta, 62 ladies performed for the final chance to be named a member of the 2013 Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders.
At the end of the night, 36 were chosen to form this year’s edition of the team, including 21 veterans.
On Sunday, preliminary tryouts were held at the Falcons’ facility in Flowery Branch, Ga., where 200 hopefuls were worked down to just 36. Those 36 then joined 26 returning veterans Wednesday night for finals.
The ladies will begin practices in June, after having their annual cheerleader retreat at the end of this month, which serves as the official welcome of each new team.
[Meet the 2013 Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders Gallery]
[2013 Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders Final Auditions Gallery]
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B.C. girl Alexandria MacFarlane has chance to become Much VJ
By Dana Gee
The Province
Alexandria MacFarlane says her job as a professional cheerleader is not that different than the job of music channel VJ.
The 20-year-old is a member of the B.C. Felions cheerleading squad and currently competing against 13 other young Canadians in the Fructis Fruit Sensation Presents: Much VJ Search.
“Being a cheerleader and this have a lot in common,” said MacFarlane who grew up in Abbotsford but calls Coquitlam home these days.
“You have to pump up the crowd, be a public figure, be a good role model, set a good example – it connects so greatly.
“I want to entertain people and I know I am good at it.”
MuchMusic, which has held VJ search contests (last in 2009, when Liz Trinnear won), has mixed things up this year and sent the VJ wannabes on a bus tour. The tour began in Vancouver and will pull to a stop in Toronto for a live show on April 26 when the new VJ will be revealed.
The VJ Search program, which airs nightly at 6 p.m. with Post Show following at 6: 30, shows the contestants competing in their daily challenges, including interviewing each other to facing off in pop-culture quizzes.
Along the route (they are in Ottawa for Wednesday’s episode) contestants are eliminated. The decision of who stays and who goes is made based on a combination of fan support, the mentors (current MuchMusic VJs) and, of course, production staff. The winner will get a three-month contract with MuchMusic. “We wanted to really focus that this isn’t Toronto centric, that this is all about all of Canada, so we came up with the idea of the bus, with contestants from all across Canada” said Much’s executive producer Kristine Luciw.
According to Luciw, more than 1,000 people from every corner of the country applied for the contest which has turned into a reality show.
“It is working out really well but it certainly isn’t easy to put together,” Luciw said. “The toughest part is having to eliminate someone.”
That point resonates loudly with MacFarlane who was one of 20 chosen for the bus tour.
“It is stressful, but really fun,” MacFarlane said. “It’s the best experience of my life. But everybody gets really emotional so it is stressful.
“I think, coming here, I honestly didn’t think I would make the relationships that I have. We have become close like a family. I know it is weird to say that. It’s reality TV everybody says that ‘we’re so close,’ and you’re like whatever. But it’s crazy I feel like I have known these people my whole life. It’s insane. So when you have to see people go home, it is heartbreaking. It’s stressful.” So while social media popularity goes a long way in this contest, the network types have certain boxes they want to check on the road to picking a new TV star.
“We are definitely looking for someone who is a fresh face,” Luciw said. “Someone we don’t have already on air. Looking for someone who is really different to what we have already.”
Of course, that person has to have some understanding of the world that MuchMusic operates in.
“We are looking for someone who is very passionate about music and pop culture,” Luciw said. “Someone who lives and breathes it. We are looking for someone who is unique, who stands out on camera, who is confident, very relatable and likable to our audience.”
And don’t forget enthusiastic.
“I want this job so badly because it is everything I love to do,” MacFarlane said. “Meeting new people, entertaining people, pumping up the crowd, social media – this is everything I am really good at and everything I love to do all in this job. Actually, it wouldn’t really be like a job: It would be me just being me for the rest of my life. So it would be perfect.”
Note: MacFarlane is the last B.C. contestant standing but there might be a chance that her fellow Top20 bus rider, Vancouver’s Desiree Mark, could be brought back (she was eliminated last Friday) due to a fan voting option. You can vote to help bring Mark back by going to muchmusic.com/vjsearch. The most popular castoff will be brought back for the final week of competition.
[Alexandria VJ Search on MuchMusic.com]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders DeShay and Tramane
From Boston.com
The Lowell Spinners have screened movies, given away special bobblehead dolls, and set off fireworks to entertain their fans, but they haven’t had a dance team — until now. Over the weekend, the Class-A affiliate of the Red Sox hosted auditions for a dance team/promotional squad, which will perform at home games and appear around town. Auditions for the group were held on Saturday at the Futures Stars Sports Training Center in Lowell. Above: Kelsey Kneeland (who’s been a Revs Girl) led the audition for local, limber hopefuls, who included Ashley Maisonet, Julianna Kurtz, Kathleen Burns, Alicia Twohig, Courtney Lamont, and Elana Harvey. We’re still waiting to hear who made the cut.
Another audition is scheduled for this Sunday.
