A Atlanta Falcons’ cheerleader who spent an entire decade trying to share the team how she finally achieved her goal.
The ninth time is a charm for Joyce McNally, 36, who has not become a professional POM-GIRL from NFL until the age of 30.
From 2011 to 2019, the determined interpreter failed seven tests of Falcons and a hearing of the New York Jets. But his refusal to abandon finally paid off.
“I have heard technically eight times (for the Falcons) and I made myself on my eighth hearing,” said McNally in an article on the social networks of the Falcons of Atlanta in 2023.
The initial objective of the native of Florida since childhood was to become an university of Notre Dame University, she told people.
But when she rejected her dream school, she proposed a plan B: encourage Florida State University.
However, McNally made a major defect with this idea – she did not have the compulsory time of time to make the team.
Not wanting to accept total defeat, she rather joined the spiritual organization of the college.
The ninth time is a charm for Joyce McNally, 36
From 2011 to 2019, the determined interpreter (photo) had failed seven tests of Falcons and a hearing of the New York Jets
Although this is not quite a team of joy, the goal of this group was to strengthen the morale of the FSU through community and sports events.
During her last year, McNally decided to give another cheerleading test, this time at the professional level.
“When I graduated around December of my last year, I said to myself:” Well, and if I try to be a cheerle of NFL? They don’t fall. They simply dance, “she recalls in the magazine.
‘And I said to myself: “I can understand that!”‘
With the feeling of unshakable confidence of her 22 -year -old car and her college years behind her, McNally took over and left Florida for Atlanta, Georgia, in 2011.
Before her first atlanta Falcons attempt, she signed up for dance lessons and even took on Youtube to try to prepare for the highly competitive hearing.
With essentially no prior experience, she joined Zumba lessons and taught basic techniques using online video tutorials, she told people.
When the hearing ride, McNally gave him everything and managed to go to the semi-final before being cut.
McNally (photo) first put the goal on college cheerleading, but her plans have never played because she lacked skills in tumping
After six years to live her dreams, McNally (photo) revealed to the people she planned to withdraw from pro-cheer during the NFL 2025-2026 season
She returned the following year and was cut again just before the final.
McNally’s chance seemed to be shooting in 2013 when she reached the last slice of budding pom-proms. However, she was not one of the 36 artists chosen that year.
She had to give up 2014 hearings for health reasons, but essentially in vain tried each year until 2019, when she finally received the news she aspired.
“This is the year I did the team,” she said with people with joyfully, admitting that she was “devastated” each of the previous years, she failed.
As McNally said in 2023: “2019 was my” I will try this last year. “”
“Basically, I always knew that my technique, my lack of technical context held is back. This is not my strong costume.
However, she said that the choreographer of the Atlanta Falcons team was excellent and helped her develop all the skills that were missing.
McNally (photo) said that she knew that it was her technical skills that held her for about 10 years
After six years to live her dreams, McNally revealed to the people she planned to withdraw from pro-cheer during the NFL 2025-2026 season, a joking it is the first time in 14 years that she did not stress an upcoming hearing.
“I have a little slogan that I tell everyone. That’s it, “your dreams are worth waiting,” she told people.
“Time will pass anyway for any goal and then why not continue to try if your heart is still there?”
