Columbus Crew set cheerleader auditions for Dec. 4-6 The Crew’s professional cheerleading and dance squad to hold tryouts at Crew Stadium’s Huntington Club
The 2008 MLS Cup Champions, The Columbus Crew, will be holding auditions for women interested in performing for the Major League Soccer team’s paid, professional cheerleading and dance team, The Crewzers, December 4-6 at Crew Stadium’s Huntington Club starting at 5:00p.m. Monetary compensation and additional benefits are provided for full-time, full-season members of the team. Details will be provided at the first night of auditions.
Registration and the first round of clinics will be held December 4, the second clinic and semi-finals will be December 5, and the final auditions will be December 6. Attendance is mandatory at all clinics to be eligible for the final auditions. Registration for walk-ins will begin December 4 at 5:00 p.m.. Pre-registration, additional information and a full audition
schedule is available anytime online at www.thecrewzers.com.
The Crewzers perform during half-time at all Columbus Crew home games as well as performing sideline cheers throughout game time, pre-game Kicker Plaza routines and autograph appearances before and after the games. In addition to game commitments, the squad will participate in various community and charity events ranging from parades and grand openings of local stores to corporate sponsored functions.
Previous performances and special engagements have included the MLS All-Star Game and MLS Cup half-time shows in Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Chicago. The Columbus Crewzers have also been the featured performers with top recording artists including Saving Jane, Bowling for Soup, Ravin Simone, Paulina Rubio, O-Town, Jenna Handler, Everclear and Third Eye Blind. 2004 saw the Crewzers across international borders in Cozumel, Mexico for that season’s on location swimsuit calendar photoshoot.
To be eligible for the 2010 Season squad, girls must be 18 by August 31, 2010.
Her Personal Website Documents Improvement, Encourages ‘Informed Consent’
Ashburn, Virginia – November 5, 2009: After having her life turned upside down by a routine influenza shot, and discharged by three major hospitals after four visits – despite worsening symptoms – Desiree Jennings is finally making great strides in her recovery. The vibrant, 25-year-old Washington Redskins Cheerleader Ambassador has a website to tell her story and keep well-wishers from around the world informed of her progress as well as to promote “true informed consent.”
Jennings was training for a half marathon in August 2009 when she received her seasonal flu shot, something she had done several years before. This time, however, her reaction was severe and debilitating. Over the course of several weeks she lost the ability to walk or talk normally, and began to suffer violent seizures and recurrent blackouts.
Jennings was misdiagnosed multiple times with a variety of diagnoses since receiving the influenza shot, which she thought would protect her from illness. She has since been diagnosed by her treating physician, Dr. Rashid A. Buttar, with a number of conditions including but not limited to Acute, Viral Post Immunization Encephalopathy and Mercury Toxicity with secondary respiratory and neurological deficits.
Since then her story has made headlines here and abroad, with videos explaining her disorder garnering millions of hits on YouTube. The responses she has received have been overwhelmingly supportive, encouraging.and informative. Celebrity couple Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey helped point Desiree in the right direction through Generation Rescue, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing and reversing autism.
The treatments with Dr. Buttar at the Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research in Charlotte , NC are working, and the results are nothing short of amazing. Jennings can now walk and talk normally throughout the vast majority of the day and the seizures/convulsions have significantly decreased. Although her full recovery will take an undetermined amount of time, her family is now for the first time, convinced she will make a complete recovery. She is now more than ever, driven by a desire to educate others to be informed of the potential side effects caused by vaccines and prevent others from suffering a similar fate.
Visitors to her new website, www.DesireeJennings.com, will find regular updates on her progress, helpful details on her treatment and valuable information on the importance of “informed consent” – truly knowing ALL of the options before making important medical decisions.
“I set up the site to tell my story and warn people of the neurological side effects that can result from vaccinations,” Jennings said, “Especially knowing that in the majority of cases, these stories are seldom heard outside of immediate families and friends.”
[Desiree Jennings Update Video]
The Lady Greenhawks are back!
After taking a season of while the basketball teams played in China, the Greenhawks are back and ready for another season. The Lady Greenhawks Dance Team is the official dance team of the Maryland GreenHawks Basketball team. The Maryland GreenHawks are the only professional basketball team of the Premier Basketball League based in Rockville, Maryland. As the former Maryland Nighthawks they were part of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and a founding member of the PBL. The team began play in the fall of 2004.
Do you have what is takes to be a Lady Greenhawk Dancer?? Auditions are being held later this month.
Date: Saturday, November 14th, 2009.
Time: Registration ? 11:30am. Audition: 12:00pm-5:00pm
$25 registration fee at audition – Cash Only
Location: Results Gym. 1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW.
Metro accessible from Farragut North (Red Line).
REQUIREMENTS
Must have a full/part time Job or attend college full/part time
18 Years of Age by August 1st 2009 (NO EXCEPTIONS)
Reliable Transportation
Must attend all practices (Saturdays and Sundays), games, community and charitable appearances.
WILL I NEED TO CHOREOGRAPH MY OWN DANCE?
Yes. You will be required to make up your own dance with your own 1 minute song choice (Please have edited music).
WHAT DO I WEAR?
Dance shorts to show your legs (required for uniforms)
Midriff-baring top (Dance or Athletic Bra-Top)
Dance or Athletic Shoes
Select attire that is eye catching and unique
HOW SHOULD I WEAR MY HAIR AND MAKE-UP?
Have your hair and make-up performance ready; please make sure to have your make-up to accent your natural beauty. Your hair should be fixed to the style it is currently in and not to hide your face.
After every participant performs we will have a 30 minute lunch break.
You will then learn a 1 minute dance routine choreographed by a dance instructor and perform in groups in front of the judges.
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING?
Your 1 minute choreographed music on a CD
$25 Registration Fee (Cash Only)
Water
Snacks
Is being a Lady GreenHawk Dancer a FULL-TIME JOB??
NO. Being A Lady GreenHawk dancer is time consuming and requires a commitment for a full season. Lady GreenHawks dancers do have full time jobs or attend college and this is a volunteer position.
For more information on the Lady Greenhawks Dance team, please email the director at: greenhawks.dance@gmail.com or see our website at: www.gogreenhawks.com
Go behind-the-scenes at the 2009.10 Luvabulls Poster Shoot with host, Luvabull and current Ms. Illinois Ashley Bond.
And if you’re in Chicagoland tomorrow evening head on over to LuxBar: 18 E Bellevue Pl, at State; Gold Coast for the Luvabulls Season Tipoff Party. Meet the new Luvabulls squad and get a shot at free tix to a Bulls-Nuggets game. The party starts at 9pm.
You Are Invited! Enjoy a high-energy holiday show featuring all 34 Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders! The MVC Alumni Team, Training Program, and All Stars Youth Cheerleaders will also spread holiday “cheer!” Experience a taste of game day as the performers show their “purple pride” with over 20 dance routines. Get into the holiday spirit at this free, festive, fun event!
It all happens Monday, November 9th, 6:30 p.m. at the Mall of America Best Buy Rotunda
Donna, Latrcia, Sam and Missy of the Professional Cheerleaders Alumni
The 2009 Arts in the Park Festival was another great success! The Arts in the Park Festival is a wonderful event showcasing all the different cultural arts we have here in our great city of Jacksonville, Florida. Several local artists come out to demonstrate their fabulous skills. Booths showcase artist’s paintings, pottery creations, jewelry crafting etc. In addition, several dance performers and groups were invited to show off their talents. Professional Cheerleaders Alumni members Donna, Latricia, Missy and myself along with our PCA Jr. Teen Cheerleaders were proud to be included.
We took center stage downtown by the beautiful St. Johns River on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 and performed a thirty minute show for this awesome community event. With the collective efforts and cool choreography the crowd was definitely entertained. They may have even been a little spooked by our MJ tribute routine “Thriller” (masks and silly spray included of course). In addition the crowd was able to get up and participate by shaking their groove thang to some favorite line dances, Bazooka Bubble Gum and the infamous YMCA. It was a fun and exciting way to give back to our community. We look forward to many more opportunities to team up with the Arts in the Park program.
With the PCA Jr. Teen Cheerleaders
Performance by the river~ Sam
Professional Cheerleaders Alumni Member
[Professional Cheerleaders Alumni, Inc.]
We’ve got a new contest and this time it’s in the form of a quiz.
Sasha went through her archives and selected 38 photos of NFL Cheerleaders throughout the years. Your job is to identify the squad. And we’re looking for complete answers. If it’s a Baltimore Colts Cheerleader and you say Colts Cheerleader or Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader, you get partial credit. Same thing if it’s a photo of the Philadelphia Eagles Liberty Belles and you answer Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, that’s only worth half-a-point
These are all NFL squads, but not necessarily current squads. Some teams may appear more than once, or not at all. Oh, did I mention all the photos are in black and white?
The top 5 entries with the most correct answers will receive a beautiful 8×12 autographed cheerleader photo provided by our own David Tyau. To see more of David’s photos, please check out his blog, The Hottest Dance Team In The NFL. In the event of ties, a random drawing will determine the winner(s).
International readers are welcome to participate, but are ineligible for prizes. US Addresses only for winning photos. (We’ve got a budget, here!)
Send your entries, the deadline is November 19th, to me (james@procheerleaderblog.com). Send your hate mail to Sasha (sasha@procheerleaderblog.com), it was her idea to make the photos B&W.
The quiz gallery is here. (Update: I am getting entries with just the first 20 uniforms, there’s a 2nd pages with 18 more mystery uniforms)
Disclaimers:
Not affiliated with the NFL, any individual team, especially the San Diego Chargers, or e2k Sports.
Advertisers and contributors to the blog ineligible to play.
Not responsible for lost or mis-directed entries.
All judges decisions are final.
The Washington Redskins Cheerleaders may be “The First Ladies of Football”, but former Redskinette Maureen McDonnell will be the First Lady of Virginia come January.
Maureen’s husband Bob, Virginia’s current Attorney General, was elected Governor last night. Congratulations to the McDonnell family!
By Steve Mazzucchi
Esquire
A third-year Charger Girl (and occasional superhero vixen) savors a dicey win over the Raiders, regrets when athletes tweet, and explains how San Diego can catch Denver in the standings
Against a team that had lost five of its first seven games by an average of twenty-four points under the guidance of a coach who allegedly hits men and women, the Chargers faced the possibility of overtime in the final minutes. But thanks to two LaDainian Tomlinson scores, a stalwart D, and — it must be said — the fact they were playing the Raiders, the Bolts pulled out a 24-16 win to run their record to 4-3.
While the action on the field wasn’t pretty, the sidelines stayed classy thanks to Charger Girls like San Diego native Casie. The University of San Diego business-marketing grad opened up about her thing for action sports (“I’m a total tomboy”), volunteering with special-needs kids (“My heart goes out to them”), and why we shouldn’t be surprised to see Philip Rivers, Tomlinson, and Co. streaking toward a fourth straight postseason.
ESQUIRE: The Raiders aren’t what you’d call “good,” but they hung around until the end. Were you sweating this one?
CASIE: Honestly, I really wasn’t. I was definitely frustrated at the end when we were in the red zone and had to kick a field goal. I was like, “Oh, shoot — they’re still in the game.” But this is our thirteenth straight win against Oakland. The last game we played against them — yuck. But I had faith in the team today… combined with a lack of faith in the Raiders. I would have been really mad if we lost.
ESQ: Starting with a beautiful fifty-three-yard pass play, the Chargers looked like they might air it out, yet they went on to rush more than they threw, for a whopping three yards per carry. What was Norv Turner going for there?
C: Sometimes the running slowed things down, but our first game against the Raiders was scary — we barely won — so there was probably a bit of pride there, proving we are a tough team. And especially with LT, we need to get him back up to full speed. Maybe they were trying things we need to get in place for rest of the season.
ESQ: What were the keys to victory?
C: The defense really stepped up. Shawne Merriman got his first two sacks since 2007, and we sacked JaMarcus Russell five times. Antonio Cromartie had an interception, and the secondary as a whole was great. Offensively, Rivers had good protection and connected with Vincent Jackson, Antonio Gates, Malcolm Floyd, and Chris Chambers for about 250 yards. And LT had two TDs. I was really happy for him.
ESQ: Speaking of Cromartie, he was fined $2,500 for tweeting about the food at training camp. Now we’re seeing a much uglier situation with the Chiefs’ Larry Johnson gay-baiting his coach. What are your thoughts on athletes and tweets?
C: I don’t have Twitter, but I learned a lot about it when I did marketing for a software development company. I understand that in the moment, athletes are upset and want to vent, but there’s a better way to do it that won’t come back to bite you in the butt. If you have a problem, approach someone on a personal basis. Also, Twitter’s kind of creepy. I don’t get it.
ESQ: TDs for LT, sacks for Merriman. Are these struggling stars back, or did they just benefit from the awfulness that is the Oakland Raiders?
C: Good question. I think it’s a stepping-stone that will give them some confidence. Obviously they weren’t playing one of the greatest teams in the NFL. It’s nothing to be cocky about, but they can be proud that they played well, and next week do even better.
ESQ: Was there any booing today?
C: The Chargers fans booed the Raiders — “Raiders suck! Raiders suck!” — but this was definitely the least crazy game we’ve had with the Raider Nation. Raider fans are known to be very passionate. I don’t know if it was that we were pretty dominant throughout the game, but I swear the Raider fans were actually nice. I think they really loved our Halloween costumes.
ESQ: What did you dress up as?
C: I was Catwoman. I model full-time and, randomly, do a bunch of work with costume companies. It was funny because one of the girls was Silk Spectre from The Watchmen, and it was me on her costume bag. A lot of times they won’t let you keep the costumes from the shoots, but I do have my fair share. My favorite is this black Spidergirl one. It’s really fun.
ESQ: In what area does the team most need to improve?
C: We need to get our consistency down. We can be phenomenal at times, and other times, it’s like, “What the heck? What just happened?” We need to be able to come out from week to week and just prove that we’re awesome.
ESQ: What’s it going to take for the 4-3 Chargers to overtake the 6-1 Broncos and break their Rocky Mountain hearts at the end of the season like last year?
C: Denver has looked really good, but they got killed today. Baltimore beat us as well, but not as badly. We need to stay strong and consistent. We’re at the Giants next week, then we have the Eagles, and then we play Denver in Denver. That game will be huge. We just gotta fight and hope Denver loses their games. You never know, teams can fall apart. We did it last year and got into the playoffs at 8-8. We can do it again.
