The tickets are sold out, but you can still watch the 2010-11 Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders Final Auditions online tonight at PhiladelphiaEagles.com. The show should start about 7:30pm ET.
The Long Island Lizards Dance Team is ready to find new faces for the upcoming season which begins with the first home game May 27, 2010. We’re looking for girls 18 or older with tons of personality and talent, dance experience is required.
Auditions are being held Saturday, April 24, 2010 at CATZ Training Facility located at 152 Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack NY, 11725. Please bring your headshot and resume to the audition, along with a $10 audition fee. Dancers auditioning are required to wear dance shoes or sneakers, a crop top or sports bra, and come with your hair and makeup performance ready! Best of luck and we hope to see you there!
[Long Island Lizards Dance Team]
Back in the late 1970s, professional cheerleading, especially in the NFL, exploded. Lots of squads were added, or “modern” cheerleaders replaced the older pom squads.
It was a sort of crazy time. Because it was so new, there was much experimenting going. One of my favorites was having the visiting team’s squad performing in uniform on the field. The Philadelphia Eagles Liberty Belles even traveled to Tampa to cheer at a playoff game.
This idea died off after a couple of seasons, probably around 1980. And now outside of the Super Bowl or the Hall of Fame Game, you don’t see it all. (One exception is in the CFL where provincial rivals the Edmonton Eskimos Cheerleaders and the Calgary Stampeders Outriders will cheer on the road once a year.)
Actually there’s another exception: this past Saturday night at the Baltimore Mariners-Reading Express game, where the Mariner’s Cheerleaders and the Express Smokin’ Hot Steam Team performed together during halftime.
Steam Team in silver. Mariners Cheerleaders in blue.
Steam Team Captain Laura and Mariners Cheerleader Director Liz Guardalo
Steam Team as Briefcase Babes
Rehearsing in the tunnel before halftime
Ashley
Aricia
The 2010 Axe Maidens have been selected.
Auditions for the 2010 Axe Maidens took place on April 10th at Bailey’s Powerhouse Gym in Jacksonville, Florida. Contestants were taught three routines during the week (short sideline, kickline and a dance) then performed them in front of a panel of judges. Judges included Axemen/Axe Maidens sponsors, investors and the dance team managers of the Jacksonville Sharks (AFL) and Jacksonville Suns (Baseball). According to Axe Maidens Director, Darlene Clancy, “I am very lucky to have such a close relationship with the other dance team managers. We are very supportive of each other personally as well as professionally. They know what I am looking for in a dance team so they have that critical eye and write down constructive feedback on the contestants score sheets.” Several ROAR Alumni were also on hand to help the day run smoothly. “I couldn’t have done it without my Alumni “sisters” and my husband who are always there for me when I need them.” said Darlene.
The Axe Maidens welcome back 3 veterans who are joined by 10 rookies and excited to announce that 6 additional veterans have successfully moved on to professional teams; Five are members of the Jacksonville Sharks (AFL) and the other was recently selected to the ROAR of the Jaguars.
The 2010 Axe Maidens are very excited to debut their new uniforms by Angela King Designs, the premier uniform designer for the cheerleaders for teams such as the Jaguars, Buccaneers, Chargers, Celtics and more. “When I was a member of the ROAR of the Jaguars I loved my uniforms made by Angela King. I am so proud and honored that my team will be wearing her designs.” according to Darlene.
For more audition photos go here and here.
Calling all former A-Town Dancers. Alumni are gathering for a reunion on Sunday, June 13th. Sign up here.
The San Antonio Warriors Cheerleaders of the MPFL San Antonio Warrior Football Organization are debuting their inaugural 2010-2011 11×17 month calendar. It will be the first calendar of its type in San Antonio Semi-Pro Football cheerleader history and could very well be the first in pro cheerleader history in San Antonio Texas . The calendar will include all 15 current San Antonio Warrior cheerleaders in full color, full page spreads featuring settings and outfits from tropical swimsuit to Texas country.
Director Cynthia Trinidad oversaw production and was herself a Miss February in the 1991 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader calendar. The calendars will be available at the remaining 2010 Warrior home games and playoffs and will be available online at www.saroses.com.
Cynthia Trinidad has been a member of and has directed numerous squads, and has been involved in the semi-pro and pro cheerleader industry in San Antonio since 1980. She says, “We made one poster-style single page calendar in 2003 and sold it at one game, but as far as I know this is the first full color multiple page semi or pro cheerleader swimsuit type calendar in San Antonio Sports History”.
The United Football League continues to ramp up for the 2010 season.
The search is now on for a Cheerleader Director for the new Sacramento Mountain Lions.
The season will run from September through November and there will be approximately 5 home games.
Interested candidates should have a bio/resume and head shot, two letters of recommendation and a video reel of their choreography.
Interviews are scheduled for April 21st.
Anyone interested in scheduling an interview or would like more information, should contact Peggy Williams at peggy@procheerleadersalumni.com or 407.625.8014.
The Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders are revamping their whole program, and have added a little Gwinnett flavor in the process.
By Tyler Estep
Gwinnett Daily Post
The Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders are revamping their whole program, and have added a little Gwinnett flavor in the process.
In retooling their operation and trying to become a bigger presence in the Atlanta area, the Falcons cheerleaders completed their tryouts Thursday, and are now set with their full 40-woman roster. The new squad includes two women from the county.
Rebecca Garcia, who graduated from Mill Creek High School just last May, is one.
“That was just as nerve-racking as ever,” Garcia said of the tryouts, which began with 280 hopefuls. “But I’ve always tried to live by the philosophy of, ‘I’m not nervous, I’m excited.’ When they announced my name it was all a blur.”
Twenty-three-year-old Jamie Butler moved to Lawrenceville with her husband less than two years ago. She was a dance instructor in South Carolina before giving birth to her first child 10 months ago.
She echoed Garcia’s sentiments.
“It was a lot of fun, but very nerve-racking,” she said. “Everybody’s talented, especially when you got to the finals. Everyone’s talented, everyone’s beautiful. You just don’t know what the outcome’s going to be like.”
For Garcia and Butler, the outcome was just what they wanted. They’re now officially a part of a squad that’s getting new uniforms, a new logo and shooting its first swimsuit calendar since 2003.
It’s all part of a grander plan to create more exposure for what coordinator Chato Waters called “Atlanta’s best-kept secret.”
“We’re taking the program to a whole new level,” Waters said. “The foundation is there, but it’s just about getting the word out about the cheerleaders. We’re creating a better presence for the ladies, not only on game day but in the community.”
Garcia, whose background is more in competitive cheering, and Butler, who hasn’t cheered since middle school, made it through the weeklong tryout process and will begin their official indoctrination into the squad when they go on a team retreat in May.
Butler will be the more familiar type of cheerleader on the sidelines on Sundays.
Garcia, though, will be part of an eight-woman experiment for the Falcons — a separate group that spends its time greeting fans at stadium entrances, talks to fans in the stands and makes visits to the high-rollers in Georgia Dome suites.
“That’s going to be awesome because I’m a people person, I love to talk,” Garcia said. “That will be perfect for me. I’m going to be really interacting with the fans because this year we feel like that’s really important.”
[Photos from Falcons Cheerleaders Auditions]
By Nick Scurfield
HoustonTexans.com
After more than 500 hopefuls showed up to the 2010 Texans Cheerleader Tryouts presented by Miller Lite, 45 women remain.
Those finalists were selected after two grueling days of competition on Saturday and Sunday at the Methodist Training Center, the Texans’ indoor practice field across the street from Reliant Stadium.
“I’m very excited about this year’s finalists,” cheerleader services manager Alto Gary said. “The new word this year is they have ‘swag.’ We have a very talented and beautiful group, so it’s going to be interesting for me to cut it down to whatever comfortable number we can get.”
Gary said that her final 2010 squad will consist of 25-35 members. The finalists will perform at the 2010 Texans Draft Party presented by Miller Lite next Thursday at Reliant Stadium, which will give Texans fans a chance to vote on their favorites and Gary a chance to see potential squad members in action.
The squad will be announced live on Texans TV on April 27.
“We’ll see if they work well with each other, let a couple of personalities come out and then go from there,” Gary said of what she’s looking for in the next two weeks. “Dance ability is obviously important. Are they teachable? They don’t have to be the best dancer in the world, but are they teachable and are they entertaining?”
Among the remaining finalists are 21 Texans Cheerleader veterans, including 2009 swimsuit calendar cover girl Andrea. A couple of fan favorites such as Randi, who represented the Texans at the 2009 Pro Bowl, did not return.
Tryouts had a Hollywood feel this year as, for the first time, they began at night. Contestants were welcomed into the Methodist Training Center with a red carpet, on which they did live interviews with Texans TV on their way in to the facility.
“I think having it at night makes it way more exciting with kind of a theme going on,” Whitney, a rookie Texans Cheerleader in 2009 and one of this year’s finalists, said before tryouts. “It makes it so much better.”
The first round began after taped ‘good-luck’ messages from U.S. soldiers overseas and from Miami-based rapper Pitbull. Contestants performed a mostly-freestyle routine in front of 250 scrutinizing judges, including Texans wide receiver Jacoby Jones and defensive end Connor Barwin.
“I think I did great,” cheerleader hopeful Nicole H., another finalist, said. “I did a little shaking and stuff, Texans-style, and then I busted out some karate to show off my black belt. So I think it went well.”
After the first round, the contestant pool was trimmed down to 200 once votes from the judges were tallied. Gary and a team of choreographers cut it down to 95 semi-finalists after Round 2 before selecting the final group, which will compete next week for a spot on the 2010 squad.
“You just have to put it all out there on the line, give it all you can and hope for that yes,” veteran Texans Cheerleader Candy said
Also working on a new album, Ali Dee says hard work got her to her current place in life.
by Zach Lewis
Pegasusnews.com
Ali Dee, who is locally known as the “First Lady of the Dallas Mavericks,” is taking the entertainment world by storm. Dee is an on-camera personality and has been emcee for the Dallas Mavericks since 2007.
She’s often spotted in and around the American Airlines Center interacting with fans at Mavs games. But before fans see final product of what Dee and her co-hosts have put together each home game — which includes TV spots and live shots — she goes through rigorous preparation.
Dee arrives at the AAC on game nights at 5 p.m., where she grabs a pregame meal before doing interviews. By 6 p.m., she hosts the pregame show on the AT&T Plaza on the south side of the AAC. While she’s shooting the pregame show, she is also filming Mavs Insider for Fox Sports Southwest. Finally, she wraps up the evening with more interviews featuring other Mavs personalities, like the dancers.
“It can get a little crazy,” said Dee. “At tipoff, I have pretty much had a full day: I’ve hosted a show for an hour and a half outside; and I’ve hosted another half hour television show. … By the time the game starts, I can breathe a little. After that from there, it’s just a few timeouts.”
The job leaves no room for “off” days, both for Dee and for her coworkers. “Everyone I work with and work for is like the cream of the crop,” she said. “Everybody is on their game all the time.”
In February 2010, Dee emceed the 2010 All-Star Game at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. As one of the biggest events in NBA history, Dee feels nothing can stand in her way now. “It was probably one of the most busiest, craziest, most fun events of my life, all wrapped up into one,” said Dee. “Now I feel like I am prepared to do anything after going through All-Star weekend.”
This summer, Dee, will join the Lone Star Park broadcast team as its new entertainment host. She will provide entertainment news before and during live racing at Lone Star Park on Big Event Saturdays and on Friday nights.
Making a family with the Mavs
Before coming to Dallas, Dee was a Seattle Sonics on-camera personality. And before that, she was an intern for Fox Sports Northwest in Seattle – where she learned that being outspoken had its perks.
“I went into [the president of Fox Sports Northwest’s] office and said I want to learn how to do sports as an on-camera talent,” said Dee. “I think he was taken aback. … He also respected it, and he gave me an internship.” There, she ran the teleprompter, lugged cables across baseball fields, and learned the business of sports reporting.
After working with the Seattle Sonics, the team was sold and the future looked dim for the organization. Dee called the Mavs to see if it was looking for a “driven, people-oriented person.”
“The attendance was down (in Seattle), there was a lot of frustration in the city with the team … the Mavs are just a whole other level, coming from Seattle,” she said. “There’s so much support: 20,000 people every night. It’s been sold out for 300-something games!
“Everyone knows my name here, so it makes it feel like home. It’s a very comforting type, homey atmosphere because all the Mavs fans are like family,” she said.
Honkytonky-ing around TexasBesides emceeing for the Mavs, Dee is an up and coming singer/songwriter. “Since I have been very young, I have always been involved in singing, musicals, cheerleading, and chorus. I was always one of those kids whose poor mom had to drive me everywhere,” she said laughing.
Dee started playing the guitar when she was in high school and then writing her own songs shortly thereafter. When she moved to Texas, she found great opportunities to perform live. “It’s really a place where I have gotten to dive into it wholeheartedly,” she said, “[I] get out to Texas honkytonks as much as possible to let people hear my music.”
Dee is currently recording a five-song EP, coming out this summer. It’s been a long road to get there, but Dee says the hard word has paid off. “Nothing is ever given to you; you have to work for it,” she said.
For those of you who may not remember Ali Dee, as Ali Dudek cheered for the Seattle Seahawks and Sonics.
[Ali Dee Official Website]
