The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders will see six new members lace up the squad's iconic boots subsequent season.
In a celebratory put up made via Instagram on Thursday, July 17, the staff launched the rookies: Brenley Herrera, Maddy Unger, Jenna Waller, Morgan Perschy, Parker Kilpatrick and Religion Ward.
The newbies had been welcomed to the staff by Charly Barby, who joined the staff final 12 months.
“OUR TEAM 🥹🩷,” Barby wrote. “6 good hardworking superb & devoted DCC ROOKIES!!!!!! So extremely deserving. What a tremendous summer time & an excellent higher season to start out!!!! An evening everybody will keep in mind ceaselessly. I couldn't love this staff extra if I attempted ⭐️.”
Herrera, a former cheerleader at Texas Tech College, celebrated the information on social media.
“I'm nonetheless at a whole loss for phrases,” she wrote via Instagram on Thursday. “However i'm so honored and excited to announce that i'm formally a DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADER!!!!!! ⭐️ this journey couldn't have occurred the way in which it did with out essentially the most unbelievable individuals in my life.”
She added, “That is actually such a tremendous honor and I need to thank the Cowboys Group for giving me this life altering alternative. I now get to cheer for AMERICAS TEAM!!!!! This Texas ladies coronary heart simply would possibly explode. 🥺.”
Unger, a former cheerleader on the College of Nebraska, stated she was “overwhelmed with gratitude & SO excited” to announce the information in a put up via Instagram on Thursday.
Waller was a cheerleader on the College of Oklahoma who graduated in April 2024.
Perschy was on the cheerleading staff and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State College in Could.
Kilpatrick was a cheerleader on the College of Texas and was a member of the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm & Blue staff — the first and solely co-ed dance crew and drumline within the NFL — final season.
Religion, a dancer with greater than 200,000 followers on TikTok, is the primary New Zealand native to be named a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.
“This journey has been extremely difficult, each bodily and mentally, however I wouldn't change a factor!” she shared via Instagram on Monday. “I've been pushed in methods I by no means imagined, I've realized and grown a lot already. I'm excited to see the place this wild journey takes me! I really feel so privileged to face alongside not solely essentially the most proficient dancers but additionally among the most superb girls I've ever met.”
Due to the cheerleaders who got here earlier than them, the brand new members of the staff shall be rewarded financially like by no means earlier than.
In the course of the season two finale of Netflix's America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, it was revealed that they obtained a “400 p.c” wage improve.
