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It was more that everyone was getting annoyed with her, IIRC. Like @MrsEVH said, she and her boyfriend posted a bunch of very immature and occasionally insensitive or disrespectful TikToks. A lot of people were surprised TPTB let that happen since some of them could have been construed as damaging to the DCC brand. Her friends and family were also super OTT on social media supporting her, and there was definitely speculation that they were creating fake accounts on various platforms to make it seem like she had more fans than she did. It was just a lot of exposure and everyone got really fed up with it.

What's her injury? Does anyone have a screenshot of the post where she announced her break?

Pretty sure this is the first time.

Yep! First episode is on right now!

Finale of season 7 is on right now, and Chelsea's asked a question, presumably "How are you feeling?" or something, as everyone is getting ready for the halftime show, and her response was just "I'm nervous and in a hurry", said really quickly and obviously annoyed. I think that's such an obvious marker of how fake she was on the show. She wants the attention but at the same time she wanted to be in complete control and she couldn't even pull it together enough to say "I'm really nervous but also really excited" or something similar.

Love that she took on a charity gig, but that lighting and those costumes don't do anything for those girls. Weird shadows, bulky torsos, distorted panels of light on the faces...Madeline is gorgeous and I'm sure the other girls in the photo are as well but this is really unflattering.

How so? Did something new happen?

Yeah, she's the one that said "you like me, you really like me". She said that after messing up at semis.

For me I think it's due to the fact that her injury was nowhere near healed and she needed to sit out of a lot of rehearsals and shows. Almost every other injury you mentioned - Danielle, Ashley, Jinelle - those were short term and they knew that with a couple weeks of rest they would be physically okay. Cassie's knee injury and surgery took much longer to recover from. And honestly I feel the same way about Brooke and Daphne. They're all good dancers, but they had long term injuries and couldn't/wouldn't have been able to fully participate in that season even after several weeks of training camp. I think Cassie and Brooke were favorites and Daphne's injury came after a year where TPTB took a lot of heat for all the veteran cuts so they were going to be nicer anyways (and that year was the first in a decade to have no vets actually cut - Amanda, Lisa, and Alora Rose quitting was different). So yes, there was favoritism in those cases. Personally I don't think any of those three should have been accepted back into training camp that year, or frankly tried out knowing they had such a severe injury. Take a year off, heal properly, and then come back the following year if you still want it. But I am happy they were consistent with it. As far as I'm aware there aren't any vets that tried out despite an injury and were cut because of it.

The ideal body fat percentage also changed between seasons. Season 3 with the girl you talked about said it was like 10-16% and she absolutely nailed a girl (Jordyn Ketchum maybe?) for having like 18% body fat. And then season 4 all of a sudden it was recommended to be like 18-25% and Ashley Kelly was told to gain weight when she had 16%. And in none of those critiques did they ever say, "Here's the number of a good nutritionist." Because seriously these girls are dancing SO much I'd be surprised if extra cardio would do much for them, it's much more likely to be their diet (though everyone's different).

Jennifer Colvin, season 7 I got the impression from the way Shelbi was talking it was more about her needing the free time during the day to practice and not that the company itself wasn't a fit, so she might not have wanted to look for another job during TC. Not sure about Kyndall or s10 Kat though and whether they wanted to look for a new job.

Someone else might be able to give more details, but from what I remember she flunked her written test twice. Her kicks were a concern but they would've given her the time to work on them had she not done so poorly on the test. They just used them as the on-screen explanation for her cut.

She's originally from Plano, Texas. Her biography was actually in season 13.

I agree that watching yourself dance is super helpful, but at the same time I understand Judy's critique. Melissa is very rarely pointing out choreography mistakes, she's trying to help the girls see if they're stiff or lacking expression, things that they definitely wouldn't know themselves. When Judy asks someone if they know what they did wrong, it's always a matter of them doing the choreography incorrectly and her expecting them to know what the correct step is, which is a reasonable expectation. She could probably approach the topic more carefully but I still get why she does it.

I've been looking through the cameos on Pompedia and it's really interesting to see how the photos have changed. There used to be a lot more girls doing a sexier face as opposed to a smile, now you might see one or two girls per season like that. Possibly due to the squad's average age getting younger?

Haha yep. And actually I just saw this on Pluto, season 9 is showing and they're doing fieldwork and when Kelly explained the triangle they showed a shot of Mia at point, it was just footage that was never actually used in season 8.

No, the one game they showed that season had Mia and Jackie splitting center. Possibly due to injuries?

Personally I think they should do this to at least half the blondes on the squad. Most of them seem to have the same shade of blonde, very little dimension in their hair, and I think some lowlights and a general toner would do wonders for them. Plus (and this is just my opinion) I really think the icy blonde look only works on girls who are paler. When someone is tanner then the iciness just turns too white for my liking.

I just noticed, on the website, Victoria's bio page doesn't have any photos of her. All of the vets have photos from their previous seasons, mostly on the field but some old cameos or swimsuit shots. Considering that she's technically a third-year veteran, I would expect her page to have pictures from a few years ago. Just something weird that I saw while going through the girls' pages. Also, the different sizes of the cameos on the "Our Team" page is killing me! Ashlee's picture is absolutely TINY compared to Kelcey's next to her. Pretty sure I complained about this last year too. They need a better UI designer for their site. And while I'm ranting, half the pages on their website won't load if you use the back arrow to go to the page you were previously on and it bugs me so much.

I don't have an insta, can someone post a couple pictures of her here? I want to know what everyone's talking about!

I believe there were a couple weeks where someone missed a practice and therefore sat out of the game, but Gina hurt her ACL partway through the season so that made it a non-decision and the other 36 women danced the rest of the games. I never heard about any dance-offs.

Between episodes getting extended to an hour and prelims and semis getting their own episodes, everything past season 12 takes SO LONG. I turned on Pluto and caught the tail end of the final episode of season 12, and I didn't want to watch prelims or semis so I figured I'd wait for a bit and come back when finals are on. Come back what feels like a decent amount of time later and the semis aren't even halfway over.

I'm going to miss her weaving critique into said screaming: "PRESENCE, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one and two, don't skip, five and six, seven and line, Breelan, THINK, three, LINE, five, six, seven, eight" (throwback to S9)

Aside from Jalyn, she looks tiny in this photo!

BTS pictures from the calendar shoot are up on the DCC website. https://dallascowboyscheerleaders.com/gallery/2023-swimsuit-calendar-behind-the-scenes/