By Bob Shryock
South Jersey Times
March 02, 2014

Eagles — has been a dream come true for Deonna Baquero and Malia Makaila.

But both girls have different stories on how they got there.

Makaila made the team after just one try. And Baquero, who auditioned several years ago, decided to gain more experience before trying out again last year.

A high school cheerleader from Cherokee High School in Marlton, Baquero never gave up. She learned a lot about being a cheerleader by cheering on a small football team in North Jersey and then joined the squad for the arena football team Philadelphia Soul.

“It was the perfect stepping stone,” she said of cheering for the Soul. “I did that for two years.”

So last year, she retired her spot on that Philadelphia team and decided it was time to give her old dream of cheering for the Eagles another shot. She went to the mock audition workshop — where she got all kinds of advice and training — then the dance prep workshop — where she learned the dance routine — and finally the open call auditions which led her to the final auditions.

“The workshops were extremely helpful,” she said. “You learn the choreography beforehand and can ask questions to see what they’re looking for.”

For Makaila, a freshman in college, who is athletic and a dancer, her first audition proved to be a success. She found out about the audition process and thought, “Why not?”

“Attending both pre-auditions definitely helped,” she said. “My biggest challenge was to stay calm. I didn’t want to raise my hopes too much.”

A final audition, held at the Kimmel Center, narrows down the hopefuls to just 38 squad members.

The list of women who make the squad appears on the Eagles’ website the next day.

“I was hysterically crying when I found out I made the squad,” said Baquero. “My emotions overcame me. It was just surreal.”

“I was so shocked and so excited,” said Makaila, of Philadelphia.

And both women said their first year as an Eagles cheerleader was amazing.

“I grew up watching the Eagles and going to all the games. And now I was on the sidelines of my favorite football team,” said Makaila.

Baquero has this advice for anyone who wants to audition.

“I highly suggest going to the workshops,” she said. “It’s really crucial in helping to prepare. And I strongly encourage everyone to come back out to try out again. If that’s your goal, never give up.”

Mock Audition Workshop
Tuesday, March 4
6 to 10 p.m.
NovaCare Complex (One NovaCare Way, Philadelphia PA 19145)

Dance Prep Workshop
Tuesday, March 11
7 to 10 p.m.
NovaCare Complex (One NovaCare Way, Philadelphia PA 19145)

Open Call Auditions
Saturday, March 22
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NovaCare Complex (One NovaCare Way, Philadelphia PA 19145)

Final auditions will be held on May 5.

Here’s a shot of LAKDs Natllely, Kaley, Vanessa, Alexis, and Jules with team owner/Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley. This is the first time we’re seeing them in uniform. I hear through the grapevine that Paul designed some of the dance team costumes. I wonder if this is one of them?

By Nancy Churnin
Dallas News
February 27, 2014

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and former Rockette Olivia Carter plays Victoria in Cats, opening Saturday at Casa Manana Theatre in Fort Worth. We caught up with Olivia for an email Q and A on her journey from Lake Highlands to the Jellicle Ball.

Q: Where are you from? Was there any point growing up when you thought you would be a Dallas Cheerleader — or a ‘Cat’?

Olivia: I was born and raised here in Dallas. I grew up in the Lake Highlands area and attended Lake Highlands Junior High and High School. Dance was always my main passion and I trained extensively growing up at the Academy of Dance Arts in Allen, TX. My professional career started with concert work and slowly made its way to musical theatre roles. I toured with the Rockettes as a part of the ensemble and have been seen on the Casa stage in their productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita (as the lead tango dancer) and in Hairspray (as Lou Anne). [photos] The role of Victoria in Cats is an iconic and dream role for dancers. It is an absolute honor to be playing her! I never expected to be given the chance at such a dream role.

Q: What made you want to be a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader?

Olivia: I was inspired to become a cheerleader because of my mother-in-law, [former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders] Kitty Carter. I wanted to continue her legacy with the organization.

Q: Why did you want to be in Cats?

Olivia: I wanted to be a part of the continuing legacy of Cats. It is one of the most well-known and loved musicals of all time. I feel like I will now have a tiny part of its history and that is such an honor!

Q: What’s the most challenging part of being a ‘Cat’? What’s the best part? Do you have a favorite moment in the show?

Olivia: Everything about being a ‘cat’ is challenging: the movement, the acting the singing. You really have to transform yourself. The physicality of the dancing in the show is probably the most demanding part. My favorite moment in the show is my moment with Grizabella in the closing scene.

Q: What do you like best about the cat that you play?

Olivia: I love Victoria because of the dancing she does. My background is primarily dance so it is nice be in a role that relies heavily on that!

Q: What’s next for you? Are you planning on doing any more singing, dancing or acting?

Olivia: Hopefully more roles and more dancing!! I plan on continuing my career as a professional performer.

by Art Schwartz
Hudson Reporter
February 23, 2014

More than 110 million viewers saw this year’s Super Bowl, making it the most watched television event in U.S. history. That means a lot of people saw 22-year-old North Bergen resident Ashley Marie Gonzalez, whether they know it or not.

“We were chosen to be a part of the Super Bowl halftime show,” said Gonzalez, who used to cheer at North Bergen High School and is now part of a dance team based in New York. “It was a great experience. We met a lot of people, we did a lot of events in New York and New Jersey, meeting players, doing signings.”

Ashley was on the field performing with some of her fellow Gotham City Cheerleaders. “We were on the platform on the left side of the stage, which was right where Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were performing,” she said. “Bruno Mars requested a group of girls who were dancers and were pretty. He wanted us dressed a certain way. We were there for the whole show. It was an amazing feeling to be there in front of thousands of people.”

The Gotham City Cheerleaders

“We’re based out of New York and we are the first dance team to cheer for the New York Giants,” said Gonzalez about the Gotham City Cheerleaders.

The three-year-old cheerleading team is not officially affiliated with the Giants, she explained. “We’re not signed by them but we do support them, we go to every home game and do tailgates and do promos. It’s a lot of fun.”

“The New York Giants are a traditional football team so they never had cheerleaders,” continued Gonzalez. “They’re one of six teams that didn’t have an official cheerleading team. My director, Ana [DeVillegas], she was a Redskins cheerleader and she lives in New York and it was her and a New Jersey Jets cheerleader, they founded it and built it. Every year it has grown and progressed. We have so many fans. We do a lot of charity events and gigs all over the city.”

“Since we’re not officially signed by the Giants we don’t get to perform on the field,” she said. “I can’t be on that field… but I was on the field for the Super Bowl!”

Cheering in North Bergen

Gonzalez has a strong background in her craft. “I’m 22 and I went to North Bergen High School,” she said. “I cheered all my years of high school and graduated in 2009. I grew up with my dad being my coach. I was a competitive gymnast so a lot of my experience comes from my background.” That experience included dancing during halftime shows for the Jets.

Moving to Florida to attend Miami International University, she auditioned for the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders. “I danced for a semi-pro team in Florida, the West Palm Beach Makos,” she said. “I did a year with them, and then after college I moved back up here to New Jersey.”

“Every spring is when the NBA and NFL teams audition and I auditioned for several teams,” she continued. “And being as how I didn’t make certain teams I was freaking out as a dancer; what am I going to do? I Googled the Giants and found out about the Gotham City Cheerleaders and I auditioned and I made them. That was last May when I auditioned and I signed the contract from June to March.”

A bit of clarification is necessary here. “We are known as cheerleaders but in the professional world we don’t cheer as in lift each other and jump and tumble or stunt,” said Gonzalez. “We don’t shout cheers. As a professional cheerleader you’re more of a dancer. When you audition for a team they look for your dance background. They like a gymnastics background and I have that.”

“We’re actually dancing to music as opposed to cheerleading,” she explained. “We have choreographed routines and we have our pompoms. I get asked that all the time, even when we’re at promos they ask us to cheer and we tell them we don’t cheer but if you play music we’ll dance to it.”

The Super Bowl

When the Super Bowl gig came up, the coach and director of the team, Ana DeVillegas, selected about 20 cheerleaders to participate.

“It wasn’t my whole team that was part of the Super Bowl,” said Gonzalez. “My team itself, there’s about 25 of us, but my coach and my captain went to Japan in December and did an audition for Japanese girls who wanted to come dance in New York City. Whoever made the auditions was chosen to come out for Super Bowl week and they performed with us at our events. Most of those girls were the ones chosen for the Super Bowl, and a few of the girls who were already on the team. I was glad to be one of them. It was an even better feeling being one of the chosen girls.”

Onstage they were part of a much larger group selected to dance to the music. “There were over 900 of us as part of the halftime show so we weren’t dancing like our team performing. It wasn’t choreographed but we have these dances that we do, we call them snippets, just short little dance moves that we do as a team making us look in sync,” she said. “It was hard and there wasn’t much space for us since we were crammed on that stage. There wasn’t room to move the way we wanted to. But it was a lot of fun.”

Next (dance) steps

“Next I am going to prepare for a different audition,” said Gonzalez. “My contract is still going until March 15 so once that comes I’m free to go. I like to be a part of different teams because you learn different styles of dance from different coaches and different directors.”

“Right now is the down time until the next football season,” she said, “and I don’t want to not be dancing so I was just Googling and I found this team based out of Long Island, the Long Island Lizards, professional lacrosse, they have a professional dance team and they are a spring/summer team so I’m hopefully becoming a part of their team.”

“The best thing that could happen is definitely being part of a pro team where I am performing on the field for an entire season. That’s where I’m trying to get,” said Gonzalez. “What I’m trying to do right now is build my dancer resume.”

Fans of The Line Up may have noticed that they’ve been adding new styles to their website and previewing them on Facebook. They’ve finished uploading everything, and now the complete collection for 2014 is available at The Line Up Store. There’s so much to choose from. If you’re planning to audition for a pro dance team this year, definitely take some time to look at what The Line Up has to offer. It’s not easy to get noticed at those auditions, but the right outfit can help!

First, let’s start with the Flirty Collection. Today is the very last day to enter the Flirty Giveaway to win one of these three outfits.

I can’t wait to see who wins! The winner will have the option to customize the outfit by choosing the colors and the icon (hearts, kisses, or stars). She will also have her choice of shorts vs. briefs. One thing I want to point out – because it didn’t occur to me until just now – although the bottoms are black in all of the photos, you can get them in any color you like. Personally, I think white briefs with a pink heart or a bright yellow star would be super cute.

Y’all know how I feel about wearing white to auditions. If you’re brave enough to do it, you WILL stand out.

Moving on…

Who doesn’t love ombre? I love it. I have a whole board devoted to it on Pinterest. TLU has lots of beautiful ombre options.

The one in the middle is a good reminder that ombre doesn’t have to include white. Think blue and green for the Seahawks or aqua and orange for the Dolphins.

That top on the right is sneaky sneaky sneaky. I don’t know if I would advise putting your name on your top, but if you do it, the judges will know you by your name, not just your number, and that DEFINITELY works in your favor. But you don’t have to use your name. You’ve got 12 letters, so be creative. Go with the team name, or your initials, or “Go Vikes!” (Shout-out to the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders and MVC alumni who always do a great job of showing off TLU’s new styles.)

Just don’t put “Princess” or “Diva” across your chest. PLEASE.

Another stand out option is wearing sleeves. I’m a big fan of sleeves. Nobody wears them to auditions because they’re too hot. But this anti-sleeve bias means if you’re wearing them, you’re probably one of few who are. And doing something different is how you get noticed.

Long sparkly sleeves are a definite eye-catcher. Short sleeves, like the option in the middle, are a good compromise between wearing sleeves and sweating bullets. To be honest, the one on the left looks more like a team uniform rather than an audition outfit. Very reminiscent of the Charger Girls. But hey, maybe that’s a good reason to wear it! What’s that they always say about showing up to the audition “looking the part”?

If you want, you can take those sleeves to a whoooole ‘nother level.

The sheer amount of pinkness here would make you noticeable from two blocks away. Everyone in the room will notice you. You will never overhear the following conversation:
Dancer 1: Did you see that girl in the pink long sleeves?
Dancer 2: No, where?

The iridescent sleeves on the one on the right are a little risky, but also memorable. Iridescent fabric can be beautiful like a dragonfly’s wings. But in the wrong combinations, it can earn you the side-eye from every girl in the room. If you’re not sure, get a swatch or ask for advice from TLU. They won’t steer you wrong. The outfit on the left is a little “pirate wench” but still cute and a definite stand out.

Another option is fringe. TLU has a lot of great fringe options

Anything that creates movement on your outfit draws the eye. The outfits on the right and left come with matching fringe bottoms, so if you’re not afraid to get in touch with your inner Tina Turner, go for it! The top in the middle is gorgeous. Honestly, if you don’t like it, I don’t know if we can be friends.

Next up, patterns! TLU ventures into the world of patterns a little more each year. Most audition outfits consist of bright solids, so something like a polka dot will differentiate you from the dancers on your left and right.

TLU has dots, checks, plaid, camo, stripes, and, animal prints among others. Let’s say you’re auditioning for the Charlotte Checkers, Jacksonville Jaguars, or Cincinnati Bengals. Those auditions are begging for a print that matches the team’s theme. TLU also has the ability to manufacture just about any print you can think of. Obviously custom fabrics cost more than the fabric in stock, but if you’ve got a vision in your head, and you can draw it, TLU can probably make it.

Now, for argument’s sake, let’s say you are one of those girls who likes to be different in every way. TLU has options for you too.

Very few women will show up to an audition in a sailor outfit. The one on the left strikes me as a little cancan-ish. Or maybe a little Spanish. The bow on the right, is not something every girl and her mother will dare to wear. So if you’re an out-of-the-box kinda gal, make sure you check out these options and others on the TLU website.

That isn’t to say there’s anything wrong with basic brights.

This is cute, simple, but still packs a punch. Especially with the crystal accents.

And lastly, let’s talk about bottoms. If you’re on a limited budget, invest in an eye-catching top and go with inexpensive basic briefs or shorts. But if you’ve got the budget for matching bottoms, just do it, honey! A head-to-toe coordinated outfit makes you look polished in a way that says “I mean business. Put me on this team.”

These are three of my favorite bottoms. The shorts are so cute. You can get the belt in the same fabric as the shorts (as shown here), or you can get belt in a fabric to match your top, as with the sparkly blue long-sleeved top above. The skirt in the middle is probably my favorite thing out of all of the 2014 styles.

Strike that – second favorite behind the ombre fringe. But I love this skirt. And the sparkly skirt on the right is for sure going to get you noticed.

Believe it or not, as much as I’ve shown you here, there is a lot that I didn’t include in this overview. The Line Up has many many other options in their 2014 collection [here]. And if you still can’t find THE perfect outfit, venture into the rest of their store to see what else they have to offer. I’ve never actually counted, but this company must have hundreds and hundreds of options to choose from.

Now what are you waiting for. Get to shopping.

And don’t forget to enter the Flirty Giveaway. The contest ends TONIGHT!

The Milwaukee Bucks have updated their dance team pages. No longer known as “Energee!” the team has been rebranded as the Milwaukee Bucks Dancers. Click here to check it out!

Casey Weldon and Scott Wegener
WCPO Cincinnati
February 20, 2014

CINCINNATI — A 54-year-old math teacher wants to become an NFL cheerleader and the hosts of a popular national TV show are trying to turn that dream into a reality.

By day, Brenda Gold works as a teacher at School for Creative and Performing Arts in downtown Cincinnati. Some seem to think having a relatively conservative day job means she wants to spend her time traveling, going to shows or picking up any number of off-the-wall hobbies.

Even though she doesn’t hate those things, that’s not all she’s interested in doing with her life. In fact, she has her eyes set on a much more colorful pastime – one that’s decked out in orange and black.

The West Side resident said it is her dream to dance with the cheerleading squad of the Cincinnati Bengals, the Ben-Gals.

To help prepare for her audition in May, Gold said signed up for 10 practice dance classes to train to be a Ben-Gal that begin March 4. She also plans to attend some of the squad’s workshops, though she’s not ashamed to admit she’s already in great shape.

One of Gold’s primary strengths is her personality, which she describes as “positive and enthusiastic.” She also likes to point out half-seriously that she was named “most spirited” in high school.

And she’s not going into this tryout on a whim, either. She has also trained for this her entire life, taking part in dance classes her entire life and cheerleading from the time she was in sixth grade.

But while she has the passion to make the team and is capable of performing the necessary dance skills, she believes she needs a little help in the glamor department.

“I noticed that they wanted glamor,” she said after the reviewing contract for the tryout.

The Bengals and several other NFL franchises recently came under fire for the lengthy list of model-like requirements they have for their cheerleaders.

Despite their lofty set of standards, Gold isn’t going to give up her dream — and neither are Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, a former professional football player.

Gold sent a heartfelt plea to the hosts of the popular morning show “Live with Kelly and Michael” to help her achieve her goal.

“The show can glam me up, and maybe they can get me ready try out for the Bengals cheerleading squad.”

Her aim is to win the program’s “LIVE’s Look As Young As You Feel Makeover” contest. The intended purpose is to give “age-defying” new looks — a head-to-toe makeover, a shopping spree and a fresh hairstyle — to a handful of people preparing for a special life event.

Or, in Gold’s case, a new part-time job.

“I am 54 years old and a math teacher at School for Creative & Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio. I am going through my second divorce and decided to try out for the BenGals Cheerleading squad. I really want to be a BenGal!!!!” she wrote in a message to show producers.

“But, in order to do that, I seriously need a lot of glamour! I think that I can do the dance steps, and I think that I can get in shape enough to do this, but I really need some glamour lessons! I know you are probably thinking that there is no way that a 54-year old woman can do this, but I really think that I can.”

The people at “LIVE” were so impressed by Gold’s note that they chose her and two other applicants to appear on the show during the week of Feb. 24-28. Each person will get to model their transformation on-air.

Producer Michael Gelman said Gold’s willingness to go after he dreams is what impressed him most. He also called her decision to compete for a spot on the Ben-Gals against women 1/3 her age “really amazing.”

“The fact that she wants to be a cheerleader, and wants to try out is really amazing,” he said.

Gold will make her appearance Feb. 26 – and she wants the world to watch.

“I am so excited!!!! I was chosen as one of three finalists to appear on the Live with Kelly and Michael Show on about February 26th!!!!! If I win, I get to fly to Hollywood to hang out on the Red Carpet for the Oscars on March 2nd!!!! They are going to provide GLAMOUR!!!!!” she wrote on Facebook shortly after finding out the news Feb. 11.

“So PLEASE vote for me online between February 26th and 27th!!!!!! I want to go to Hollywood and be a Glamour queen!!!!!”

One of the three finalists will win a trip for two to Los Angeles, Calif. The trip comes with seats at the Academy Awards red carpet and tickets to “LIVE’s After Oscar Show.”

Of course, just meeting Ripa and Strahan and visiting New York City isn’t a bad consolation prize.

“P.s. I am not going to lie, I really want to meet you both! You are both awesome!!! Michael, are we “ALL IN”??”

After the last makeover airs on the show, “LIVE’s” viewers will vote determine the grand prize winner. The lucky person will be announced Friday, Feb. 28, on during the show.

By Polly Keary, Editor
Monroe Monitor
February 18, 2014

When Jessica Irwin first tried out to be a cheerleader, she did it as a gag.

She wasn’t the cheerleader type, she said. She was more the mosh-pit type, wearing the fan shirts of her favorite bands to school, and she considered herself a nerd.

But not only did the Monroe girl make the team, she cheered her way to a position with the Sea Gals. Two weeks ago she cheered at the Super Bowl, then rode in the victory parade that drew 700,000 to downtown Seattle.

It’s been a wild ride, but for the next few weeks she’s taking some time off at home in Monroe. Friday, Irwin took an hour to sit down and talk about all the last few years have brought.
Jessica Irwin of Monroe has been a Sea Gal for four years, and is now a team captain. She started out learning to dance at the age of 6 at Sky Valley Dance, and was a Bearcat cheerleader. Photo courtesy of Jessica Irwin

Becoming a Sea Gal

When Irwin tried out for the Bearcats cheer team as a high school student, she did have one advantage. Despite the fact that her musical tastes ran to hard rock, she had been studying at Sky Valley Dance since she was six.

“My mom just knew,” said Irwin, a friendly and articulate young woman who still seemed a little overwhelmed by all that has happened this football season.

By the time she was 15, she was a dance instructor.

And while she hadn’t taken cheer seriously at first, after doing it for a while, she realized she not only was good at it, she really liked it.

After graduating in 2008, Irwin went to the prestigious Cornish School of the Arts, where she studied dance and art.

Then, in 2010, she tried out for the Sea Gals.

The Sea Gals are believed to be one of the most intensely-trained squads in the NFL, and the audition process to get in certainly suggests it might be true.

“It’s a two-week process,” said Irwin. “It starts with preliminaries, and you turn on whatever music and dance freestyle.”

Of about 250 women, about half are invited to the semi-finals, where they are taught the steps to a dance.

“You come in the next day with it perfected,” she said. “You do it again, and they make the final cut.”

All that week, finalists are interviewed, and then the Friday before the finals, the cheerleaders are taught another dance, plus a kick-line routine, and expected to perfect them, as well as be ready to perform a solo.

“When you go to finals, there are 60 people left, and two at a time, you go up in front of the big lights and you answer a question and do your dance,” said Irwin.

Of the finalists, 33 are selected for the team. Irwin was one of them.

That was in April of 2010. When she learned she’d made the squad, Irwin’s life took a dramatic turn.

Being a Sea Gal

Football season is only four months long; five if the team makes the postseason, but Sea Gals, Irwin learned, train nearly all year long.

“We make the team in April, and then train and train and train,” said Irwin. “We only have two months off.”

Sea Gals only perform at home games, of which there are 10 in the regular season and as many as 13 if the team goes to the playoffs.

But there’s a lot more to being a Sea Gal than performing at games.

Some Sea Gals appear in parades, perform for the military at home and overseas, and participate in NFL cheer events.

They wind up doing radio and television appearances too.

It doesn’t pay a lot, said Irwin, but it comes with some great perks.

“We have sponsorships for hair and nails and tanning,” she said. “And we get season tickets.”

And even though there are rules preventing Sea Gals from fraternizing with Seahawks, they do get to meet the players once in a while.

“I got to go to Vancouver with Richard Sherman, Red Bryant and Doug Baldwin,” Irwin said. “They are just really great guys.”

She allowed that some of the players aren’t always quite as concerned about the anti-fraternization rules as are the cheerleaders.

“Sometimes we have to say, ‘Hey, I really like my job,’” she said with a smile.

It is a very fun job, she went on. But when the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl, things got very exciting very fast.

Super Bowl

Irwin was made a team captain last year, one of four cheerleaders to oversee a squad. To get ready for the Super Bowl, she had to learn dances to 30 songs in order to be able to teach them to her squad.

“We were given our music on a Tuesday, and we were leaving that Thursday morning,” said Irwin.

They flew out to New Jersey in a chartered plane, and got up at 4:30 a.m., (1:30 in their own time zone) to make the rounds of talk shows.

Irwin and her team mates appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, and Fox and Friends.

Then they headed to the stadium and practiced, where temperatures were very low.

Then it was back to the talk shows, and Irwin was among those who got to go on The Crowd Goes Wild with Regis Philbin.

The following morning they practiced again, then they had few hours off. Irwin also appeared on Fox Sports News.

When the big day arrived, she had a moment in which she was overwhelmed by it all.

“At the Super Bowl I was leading out of our tunnel, and I had a few minutes to look up at the stadium and I’m seeing orange everywhere, and a sea of blue. It was incredibly nerve wracking,” she said. “It was such a big moment. I was realizing, ‘Oh my God, I’m at the Super Bowl.’ And I was trembling on the field. I just couldn’t believe I was there.”

The parade

Three days later, the largest crowd ever to convene in Seattle was converging on the downtown, and Irwin and the Sea Gals were riding in the parade that three-quarters of a million people had come to see.

Irwin was riding in one of the Ducks, a fleet of amphibious vehicles that ferry tourists around the city.

On the hood was Marshawn Lynch.

“He was throwing Skittles, and he was drinking Fireball and banging on a drum,” said Jessica, smiling at the memory. “I couldn’t stop staring at all the people. We were getting pelted with frozen Skittles. It hurt, but it was so cool. It turned into a thing, the Skittles. We threw them too.”

It took three hours to get through the parade, and even though it was freezing cold and she couldn’t feel her feet, she loved every minute of it, she said.

After the season

Jessica will get a few weeks to collect her breath before she has to try out for the team again (all team members have to try out every year, but the Sea Gals already on the team get to start in the finals).

And although there are three women on the team who are 37, meaning Jessica could theoretically be a Sea Gal for another 14 seasons, she said she has other things in mind.

One thing that interests her is radio, and that’s because of an unexpected incident at the start of the season this year.

In the opening game of the season, Richard Sherman made a spectacular interception, then ran it back up the field before barreling off into the sidelines. (See video here)

Gleeful, he started dancing with a cheerleader, and video of it went viral. The cheerleader was Irwin.

“I thought it was a funny moment, but it ended up go

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