Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Judy Trammell, Kelli Finglass explain why the squad isn’t outdated in 2020
Season 15 of the ‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team’ returns to TV Tuesday
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EXCLUSIVE: Judy Trammell can still vividly remember when she received her Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader uniform for the very first time.
“I was young, shy and didn’t know a whole lot about what I was getting myself into,” the 62-year-old admitted to Fox News. “I would just tell anyone putting on that uniform to soak in every moment because it goes by so quick. And it’s such a fun, memorable experience and a once in a lifetime experience for anyone who gets to wear that uniform.”
Trammell cheered from 1980 to 1983, but her career with the squad was far from over. In 1984 she became assistant choreographer and was then promoted to head choreographer in 1991. She has served in that position ever since.
Despite her decades-long career with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Trammell pointed out that this year “things were so different.” For the first time, the franchise conducted worldwide-auditions virtually amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the organization, it resulted “in one of the most diverse and talented casts to-date.”
The auditions are chronicled in Season 15 of the CMT reality TV series “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team,” which premieres Tuesday night.
Kelli Finglass, who cheered from 1984 to 1989 before serving as director, told Fox News that while the organization was faced with “a lot of challenges logistically,” she believed they conquered them with this unique approach.
“We wound up having 1,545 applications submitted virtually from 45 states and eight foreign countries,” explained Finglass, 55. “We wound up inviting 29 ladies into our ‘bubble’ at training camp here in Texas. But they were much further down the judging process this year before they got to Texas because we did so much judging online.” Read more from Fox News.
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