Laker Girls
The Laker Girls are an all-female National Basketball Association Cheerleading squad that performs and supports the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in home matches.
They also perform at many other events and venues.
The Laker Girls hold auditions at the Staples Center for new recruits on the third Saturday of July of every year. Each girl auditioning needs to be 104-130 lbs. (135 lbs. is considered if the audition goes very well) and must come with a resume of their previous jobs and gigs. It is required that each girl auditioning comes prepared with her own routine and is taught two routines that each girl must perform for the current Laker Girls as well as some judges.
It was as a Laker Girl that Paula Abdul was "discovered" by the group The Jacksons, in which she was hired by them to choreograph the music video for the song "Torture".[1] This led to her doing the choreography for their Victory Tour, as well as other chances to do the choreography for other music videos.[2]
As a former Laker Girl, it is a yearly tradition for Abdul to be a judge at the auditions each year and afterwards she takes all of the Laker girls along with the women who didn't make the squad and buys them dinner.[citation needed]
A Television Movie of the same name[3] aired in 1990, detailing the fictional tribulations of a trio of acolytes trying out to become members of the cheer leading troupe.
[edit] Notable former cheerleaders
- Paula Abdul[1]
- Lisa Joann Thompson (In Living Color, Fame L.A., and Motown Live), (choreographer)
- Tina Landon (choreographer)
- Emily Harper (Fancy Crane on Passions)
- Moon Bloodgood
[edit] References
- ^ a b Norment, Lynn (11 May 1990). "The Many Talents of Paula Abdul: Sassy Entertainer Gives Expanded Definition to Term "Multiple."". Ebony. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-8935075.html. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Abdul Delivers More Than the Same Old Song and Dance". San Jose Mercury News. 11 August 1989. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7308787F670A3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099968/plotsummary
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