Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team - Season 12

Season 12

Episodes

Auditions Begin
Hundreds of beautiful and talented women converge on AT&T Stadium to start the hardest audition process in professional sports, trying out for a coveted spot on the most famous NFL cheerleading squad in the world.

Semis
The 119 remaining women have one hour to learn a power pom routine and the famous kickline; the stress of mastering the choreography in such a short time leads to numerous mistakes.

Finals
The veterans finally enter the audition process; all 83 women are judged head to head during a panel interview, a solo dance performance and on their appearance on the football field.

Empty Your Bucket
Forty-four women begin the first training camp at The Star, the Cowboys' new billion-dollar facility. At the first meeting, Kelli makes it clear that eight women will be sent home over the summer.

Getting the Look
The ladies first need to have the ``classic'' Dallas Cowboys cheerleader look; Kelli's legendary hair and makeup transformations; assessing the ladies with a new fitness test, ``Styku.''

Media Training
Kelli media trains the rookie candidates to determine who best represents the DCC at press events; news anchor Meredith Land tests the ladies on-camera interview skills.

Personality Testing
Kelli takes the ladies on location to see how they interact during a public appearance with War Veterans. Later tears are shed after a very hard decision.

Picture Perfect
Katy Perry's choreographer, Nick Florez, stops by to offer some performance advice to the ladies. Later, the cheerleaders pose for their cameo photos.

Hit the Field
The squad goes on an appearance to support pop music star, Demi Lovato. The ladies learn the entrance to the famed pre-game dance. It's a make or break moment. If a woman can't learn it quickly it might be her last night.

The Next Step
The team must re-block their formations for their Hall of Fame performance, due to two suspended veterans; new vets step up as a new point of the triangle is named; the rookie candidates try to get their footing during a rehearsal.

Hall of Fame Week
Twenty three veterans travel to Canton, Ohio, to perform at Jerry Jones' induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Down to the Wire
Training camp winds down and the pressure skyrockets, as another lady is sent home.

The Pre Season Test
Kelli announces the official squad and the women realize the hard-fought dream of becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. The squad then prepares for their very first football game at AT&T Stadium. Season 12 finale.
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