Girls around the league prepare for potential impact the Lock Out this upcoming season
With talk of the possible lockout looming over everyone’s heads, NFL cheerleaders across the league refuse to be put on the bench all season long. Each team plans on different ways to keep themselves busy and keep all of their talents on the front line for the 2011-2012 season, football or no football.
Considering all of the various elements that go into an NFL Cheerleading season, there are plenty of other activities that will continue to keep each team occupied. This week’s article takes a look into different teams “plans of action” for the upcoming season.
The Dallas Cowgirls will begin hosting their “Camp DCC” program on June 8th, 2011 with camps for various age groups running through August 6th 2011. Camp DCC is a fun and energetic dance and cheer program offering girls the opportunity to train with and learn from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The program focuses on having fun and making friends while learning exciting choreography and dancing with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Participants are grouped by age and ability to learn warm-ups, dance routines, and team spirit with emphasis on confidence, poise, motivations and technical style.
This year the Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleaders are heading to the Dominican Republic to shoot their 2012 Swimsuit Calendar. Not only is the team traveling down to paradise for a week, but the Chiefs are proud to announce that anyone who wants to attend is invited to come along. The girls will be heading to the Dominican on May 9th and will be there through the 13th.
Fans will have the opportunity to witness the photo shoot first hand as well as have many up close and personal experiences with the squad. Special fan festivities including a team dance performance will take place during the week, which will ensure a unique opportunity you will not want to miss.
Lisa Simmons, director of the San Diego Charger Girls since 2005, sat down with the Union Tribune last week to talk while the Chargers remain stuck in lockout mode, the Charger Girls season is going on as scheduled.
“Oh my gosh, the workload. I had no idea,” said Simmons, “The thing that surprises people the most about the girls is that this is not their full-time job. We have a saying that being a Charger Girl is a part-time job and a full-time commitment.”
Being a Charger Girl is not a full-time job, and it isn’t a secure one, either. Each year they have to audition due to the fact that their contracts are only good for one season. This year, 24 of last season’s 28 girls want to come back. Not only for the fans, but for the football team and for each other.
Regardless to whether there is an actual football season, that does not change their workout schedule. The teams hold two evening rehearsals every week, which in May through August are supplemented with monthly Saturday workouts that last about 10 hours.
“You have to be very good at time management,” said Tiffany, an Orange County math and dance teacher who — like all of the Charger Girls — goes by her first name only. “It’s an honor to do this, but it’s a responsibility to make sure you can handle it all.”
The Charger Girls are slated to hold various appearances throughout the year and Simmons ensures that all of her girls are more than well prepared to interact with the public.
“What we have learned from the organization is to be as kind as possible,” said Culture, a commercial property manager who did her first Charger Girls stint in 1999 and returned for her second season last year. “You have to take the time to give people your attention, because in one moment, they could think, ‘Why did I ever get excited about them?,” and we don’t want that.”
The girls agree that being on the squad creates an instant friendship with 27 other girls whom they can rely on at anytime. They also have stated that although when groups of girls get together, drama is likely to happen, there is no time for any of that on their team.
Each organization averages about 300 Appearances and Charity functions per season that will continue to go on regardless to what happens this upcoming season. Every team features different community functions they are attending which can be easily accessed on their team websites. No matter what the outcome of this lockout brings, NFL Cheerleaders will continue to dance on.
For more information on the mentioned programs and planned events this season, visit the links listed below.
http://www.dallascowboyscheerleaders.com/youth/campdcc.cfm
http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-3/An-Oasis-on-the-Beach/64f54dfb-ebb2-4512-8982-d4fc5ba4f053
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