Canadian Football League Cheerleading

Canadian Football League Cheerleading, or CFL Cheerleading, is a professional cheerleading

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

league that follows and supports teams from the Canadian Football League

Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

. Cheerleaders in this league must excel in gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

and dance

Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

. Squads are also very involved in charity work, modelling

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

, and advertising

Advertising

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Teams

Listed by name, with corresponding CFL football team.

Name	CFL Team
Felions	BC Lions BC Lions The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of Canadian Football League . Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954...
Outriders	Calgary Stampeders Calgary Stampeders The Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...
Edmonton Eskimos Cheer Team*	Edmonton Eskimos Edmonton Eskimos The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...
Hamilton Tiger-Cats Cheerleaders	Hamilton Tiger-Cats Hamilton Tiger-Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...
Montreal Alouettes Cheerleaders	Montreal Alouettes Montreal Alouettes The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...
Rider Cheer Team*	Saskatchewan Roughriders Saskatchewan Roughriders The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...
Argos Cheerleaders	Toronto Argonauts Toronto Argonauts The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...
Blue Lightning	Winnipeg Blue Bombers Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...

* Co-ed cheerleading team

Former teams

Listed by name, with corresponding CFL football team.

Name	CFL Team	Years
Baltimore Stallions Cheerleaders	Baltimore Stallions Baltimore Stallions The Baltimore Stallions were a Canadian Football League team based in Baltimore, Maryland, which played the 1994 and 1995 seasons. They were the most successful American team in the Canadian Football League, having two winning seasons and a division title. In 1995 they became the only American team...	1994–1995
Birmingham Barracudas Cheerleaders	Birmingham Barracudas Birmingham Barracudas The Birmingham Barracudas were a Canadian football team that played the 1995 season in the Canadian Football League. The Barracudas were part of a failed attempt to expand the CFL into the United States.-In the beginning:...	1995
Showgirls	Las Vegas Posse Las Vegas Posse The Las Vegas Posse was a Canadian Football League team that played the 1994 season as part of the CFL's short-lived American expansion. The Posse was one of the least successful CFL teams, both on the field and off.-On the field:...	1994
Ottawa Renegades Cheerleaders	Ottawa Renegades Ottawa Renegades Ottawa Renegades was the most recent name of a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario founded in 2002, seven years after the storied Ottawa Rough Riders folded...	2002–2005
Rhythm Riders	Ottawa Rough Riders Ottawa Rough Riders The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...
Silver Machine	Ottawa Rough Riders Ottawa Rough Riders The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. One of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America, the Rough Riders won the Grey Cup championship nine times. Their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a...	1978
Pure Gold Cheerleader	Sacramento Gold Miners Sacramento Gold Miners The Sacramento Gold Miners were a Canadian football team based in Sacramento, California. The franchise was the first American team in the Canadian Football League. The Gold Miners were originally the "descendants" of the Sacramento Surge from the defunct World League of American Football...	1993–1994
Shreveport Pirates Cheerleaders	Shreveport Pirates Shreveport Pirates The Shreveport Pirates were a Canadian Football League team, playing at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, in 1994 and 1995....	1994–1995

BC Lions

Nadeen Boman - Celebrity Trainer + Nutrition Coach
Angela Fong
Angela Fong
Angela Carolyn Fong is a Canadian professional wrestler, model, cheerleader for the CFL's British Columbia Lions and actress best known for her time at World Wrestling Entertainment as known by her former ring names Miss Angela during her time at the developmental territory FCW and as Savannah...

- Professional wrestling valet
Manager (professional wrestling)
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of WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment
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and ECW
Sarah Yu - One of 10 Finalists in Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant
Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant
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2002

Calgary Stampeders

Jill Belland
Jill Belland
Jill Belland is a Canadian TV personality based in Calgary, Alberta. She serves as a host and producer at Citytv Calgary.-Early life:Belland was born in Edmonton and moved to Calgary at a young age.She studied classical piano and trained to be a singer....

- television personality, host, and producer
Stacy Ruddell - Head coach and choreographer of the Calgary Stampeder Outriders

Edmonton Eskimos

Margeaux Morin (2005-2008) - Assistant coach of the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

' cheer team, Oilers Octane & Host of the Edmonton Eskimos Green and Gold Gridiron Show
Amber-Leigh Polowich (2006-2008) - Assistant coach of the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

' cheer team, Oilers Octane
Asha Tomlinson (2008) - CBC North
CBC North
CBC North is the name for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio and television service in the Canadian Arctic. Originally known as the CBC Northern Service, its first operations began in 1958 with radio broadcasts including the takeover of CFYK, originally a Royal Canadian Signal...

- television personality, news reporter
Christie Chorley - King 5 Morning News
KING-TV
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- reporter and wife of former football player Jason Johnson

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Lesley Stewart (1993-1994) - Weather and Traffic reporter of CHCH-TV
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT, channel 11, is a television station originating in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with transmitters located throughout Ontario. CHCH currently operates as an independent station, having previously served as a CBC Television affiliate, and more recently as the flagship station of the...
Robyn Baldwin (2004) - fitness model
Ashley Harrison - fitness model
Elizabeth Morgan - Director of the Hartford Colonials' cheer team

Toronto Argonauts

Teresa Bragado Sousa (1991-1992, 2007) - Canadian National Level Figure Athlete, Fitness Model, Former Professional NFL Cheerleader (Buffalo Bills), Calendar Girl
Lesley Stewart (1995-2004) - Weather and Traffic reporter of CHCH-TV
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT, channel 11, is a television station originating in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with transmitters located throughout Ontario. CHCH currently operates as an independent station, having previously served as a CBC Television affiliate, and more recently as the flagship station of the...
Dr. Maile Harris (2004-2007) - Director and head coach of the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

' cheer team, Oilers Octane.
Robyn Baldwin (2006) - fitness model
Michelle Bayle - Filipina
Philippines
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actress
Beverlee Donnelly - Wife of former football player Howard Schnellenberger
Howard Schnellenberger
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Elizabeth Morgan - Director of the Hartford Colonials' cheer team
Jennifer Valentyne
Jennifer Valentyne
Jennifer Elizabeth Valentyne is a Canadian television personality. She hosts the "Live Eye" segment and also fills in for Dina Pugliese as co-host on Breakfast Television, as well as filling in for Tracy Moore as host on CityLine which both air on Citytv Toronto.Jennifer has been with CITY-TV...

- Citytv Toronto
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

- Breakfast Television, LiveEye Host

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