![\"Faith](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eed7c9e81400383e54a314eeac21fb924c44e486-161x229-x34y0w1012h1440.jpg\")
Camera IconFaith Ward and her mum in the DCC locker room. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\nFaith Ward says hitting the AT&T Stadium field for her first game day as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader was \u201cthe most surreal day\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Perth dancer is Australia\u2019s latest golden girl after getting selected to join the famous cheerleading squad dubbed America\u2019s Sweethearts.<\/p>\n
Ward made her field debut with the rest of her team for the Dallas Cowboys pre-season game at the weekend, ahead of the official NFL season getting underway soon.<\/p>\n
Ward, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to Perth at the age of 10, said she is more than ready to get stuck into a busy schedule on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my goodness, it was honestly the most surreal day of my life,\u201d she told Sunrise on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy body is definitely feeling it today but it was the coolest experience and I got to witness my first football game while cheerleading for it which is a little bit crazy but I loved every moment the adrenaline, the fans screaming, everything about it was what I\u2019d worked my whole life towards so it was a full circle moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ward\u2019s mum even made the long trip over from WA to watch and support her daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just left. I was actually really sad. I was doing my makeup for the interview, and I was just saying goodbye to my mum, which was really hard, but she\u2019s so proud of me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so nice having her out there in the audience, cheering for me, knowing that her driving me to dance practice, paying for all the dance costumes, was finally worth it all, and it was just the best feeling getting to hug her after.\u201d<\/p>\n
The powerhouse performer, who was born with double-jointed hips, also discussed the social media frenzy surrounding her ponytail hairstyle.<\/p>\n
Ward is the only DCC on the current squad to wear her hair up, breaking tradition with director Kelli Finglass\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen the media go so crazy over a ponytail, but I\u2019m so here for it because it gets very hot doing Thunderstruck in the stadium, so having my hair off my face,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso mum was like \u2018Faith I can spot you so much easier\u2019 because obviously there are quite a few other blonde girls on the team so when you all have blonde curly hair and it\u2019s out and you\u2019re all moving at the exact same time it\u2019s quite hard to spot people so when I have my hair in a very different hairstyle it\u2019s very unique and makes me stand out a little bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very honoured to have a different hairstyle and it shows my personality, my energy, I\u2019ve always loved wearing my hair up and it just describes me perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunrise hosts Natalie Barr and Matt Shirvington asked if Ward \u201cfelt left out of the crew\u201d being the only Aussie-Kiwi on the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, there are definitely a few cultural differences a lot of the time,\u201d she said, adding she is teaching the other cheerleaders some Aussie slang.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to translate certain words, and I\u2019m like, what are you guys saying?\u201d<\/p>\n
Camera IconFaith Ward and her mum in the DCC locker room. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n
Ward is now preparing to step into her white boots again on Friday for the start of the NFL season, where the Cowboys take on the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n
The season starts as Netflix confirmed America\u2019s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders has been renewed for a third season, available for streaming in 2026.<\/p>\n
Details of the season have not yet been announced but fans are sure to get an insight into Ward\u2019s journey along with the series favourites.<\/p>\n
Season two premiered on Netflix in June last year, and quickly became a hit, debuting in the Top 10 English TV list in 19 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faith Ward says hitting the AT&T Stadium field for her first game day as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,134,995,593,46,85,427,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-79294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-influencers","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-perth","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}