The St. Louis Rams will be just about the last NFL team to select their 2009-10 cheerleaders. The semi-finalists were selected a week ago, and they have been in rehearsals since then. The final squad will be announced on Friday, May 22nd. So until then, congrats to all of the dancers still in the running.
#101 Terrah Hutson
#104 Stephanie Dankenbring
#107 Mary Beth Bevirt
#109 Michele Russo
#111 Lucy Hauser
#116 Shannon Ward
#118 Tricia Casalmir (fmr RiverCity Rage Cheerleader)
#119 Tiffany Crocker
#120 Lori Coe (fmr RiverCity Rage Cheerleader)
#122 Kate Anderson
#124 Katie Kruse
#125 Lindsay Hirsch
#126 Dana Joseph
#132 Jayne Cox
#140 Laura Eilers (fmr Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader)
#141 Sara Trout
#151 Angeline O’Neal
#152 Aundrea Palmer
#153 Candace Parker
#160 Angelica Smith
#161 Megan LaTempt
#162 Katelyn Rabaduex
#166 Raven Akram
#170 Meghan O’Connor
#171 Kaitlin Gleb
#172 Danielle Collett
#173 Tracy Friend
#177 Kelsey Baden
#180 Whitni Perry
#188 Ashley Walker
#192 Jessica Lickenbrock
#194 Candace McGhee
#196 Sheri Marsh
#197 Brianna Berens
#198 Julie Bergin
#201 Kate Fanger
The Jacksonville Axe Maidens are gearing up for their first pre-season game on May 23rd. They have recently added bios and photos of the Axe Maidens on www.jaxaxe.com as well as MySpace.com/JaxAxeMaidens. After weeks of practices, several appearances and photo shoots the ladies are ready to cheer on the Axemen Rugby team and entertain fans.
The Axe Maidens are looking forward to making new friends and learning new routines when they make their first appearance at
Check out the new photos posted on the Boston Celtics website.
Click here to check out the new Sports Illustrated photos of the Celtics Dancers live at the Garden.
NewYorkJets.com
May 13, 2009
Jets cheerleaders will be featured in the first-ever Flight Crew swimsuit calendar, the team announced today.
The 16-month calendar will showcase 2009 Flight Crew members on beaches in New York and New Jersey and will be available at all Jets Shop outlets in August.
The Toronto Argonauts Cheerleaders recently completed their team photo shoot at the Argonaut rowing club. Click here to view a few behind-the-scenes photos on TorontoSun.com
Congratulations to the new members of the 2009-2010 New Orleans Saints Cheerleaders!
Click here to check out the Atlanta Hawks A-Town dancers on SportsIllustrated.com
By Tom Jicha
TV/Radio Writer
The Sun Sentinel
May 12, 2009
*Photos from the Season Finale Party (Zimbio)
Jaime Edmondson and Cara Rosenthal didn’t win The Amazing Race and the $1 million grand prize that goes with victory. But in finishing second, the former Dolphin cheerleaders from Boca Raton might have run the most amazing race in the history of the CBS reality series. It’s not only that they had the best finish ever for an all-female team. They did it despite built-in advantages for their competitors.
Three stages took place in China, where the ultimate winners, Chinese-American brother and sister Victor and Tammy Jih, had a command of the language the others didn’t. This almost proved to be the downfall of Jaime and Cara. They spent five hours wandering the streets of Beijing attempting to get directions from people who couldn’t understand them. It put them into a hole they almost were unable to overcome.
“We each had 20-pound backpacks, we had on (theatrical) makeup that was burning our faces and we were in these bulky (opera) costumes,” Cara said. “The bottom of our feet were bruised and bloody, but we kept going.”
At times Jaime said to herself, “I can’t walk another step.” But rather than let down her teammate, she resolved, “If I have to, I’ll crawl.”
In the final stage, the three-remaining teams had to carry a 140-pound pig on a bamboo pole down the beach toward a luau pit. Tammy had a strong male partner in Victor. Luke Adams, who with his mother Marge finished third, is a strapping young guy. Luke figured the best way to carry out the task was to hoist the bar with the pig hanging from it on their shoulders.
Jaime and Cara also came to this conclusion but they didn’t have the upper-body strength to get it that high, so they carried it at waist-level and had to stop every few steps to regrip the pole and regather their strength. It cost them quite a bit of time, perhaps the margin by which they fell short.
If that wasn’t their undoing, a Hawaiian cab driver, who got lost, then had to stop for gas, was. “It was heart-breaking,” Jaime said. “I could accept losing if it was because we couldn’t compete but not because our fate was in the hands of a cab driver.”
She expects she’ll have nightmares the rest of her life, she said, wondering about the, “What ifs?”
It was almost as if the deck was stacked against the women at every turn. The one stage of the race in which they arrived at the pit stop first, they were told it wasn’t really the finish line, that this phase would continue into the next episode. Nevertheless, they were rewarded off the air with a pair of jet skis.
CBS doesn’t reveal the second prize but it is believed to be $100,000. Cara and Jaime, otherwise forthcoming and gregarious, went silent when the subject was broached. (A CBS publicist was monitoring the conversation.)
When not at a physical disadvantage, they were remarkable. During the round of four, when it looked like they were about to be eliminated, Cara aced one of their ickiest tasks. She devoured a buffet of scorpions, larva, grass hoppers and star fish.
“Cara was a rock star,” Jaime said. “She ate them in seven minutes. They said it was the fastest anyone had done it. I was grossed out but amazed.”
Since they got back and the show started airing, they get a rock star’s reaction when people recognize them. “It’s surreal that people know who we are..and care,” Cara said.
Would they do it again?
The reply came in a chorus. “Absolutely.”
MiamiDolphins.com: In honor of Fort Lauderdale’s Fleet Week, ten Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders were invited aboard the USS Forrest Sherman and USS Toledo.
For the first time since 2001, the naval ships were open for tours during Fleet Week in Port Everglades.
The ladies first got a tour of the Forrest Sherman, which is a guided-missile destroyer. The destroyer has the capability to enter independent combat or as part of a strike force. The tour guide was the Strike Warfare Officer, who showed the girls everything from the kitchen to control center.
Additionally, the cheerleaders were invited by the Executive Officer on a private tour of the Toledo, which is a Los Angeles-style submarine.
“It is such an honor to get to see the ships,” said Missy, a four-year veteran. “Most people don’t get these chances. The naval men are so proud of their ship, and they should be. It is unbelievable to see.”
