{"id":377095,"date":"2026-07-17T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377095\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:59:42","slug":"former-ucf-dance-team-member-joins-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377095\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UCF dance team member joins Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA former UCF Dance Team member is now a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. The Dallas Cowboys announced the girls who earned spots on the 2026-2027 cheerleading team, including former UCF dancer Lexi Smith.  The University of Central Florida posted a message on Facebook congratulating Smith. &#8220;We&#8217;re so proud of you,&#8221; the post read.Smith also shared her excitement and gratitude on Instagram.  &#8220;The experience has not only helped me grow as a dancer but also as a person,&#8221; Smith said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A former UCF Dance Team member is now a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. <\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys announced the girls who earned spots on the 2026-2027 cheerleading team, including former UCF dancer Lexi Smith.  <\/p>\n<p>The University of Central Florida posted a message on Facebook congratulating Smith. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so proud of you,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>Smith also shared her excitement and gratitude on Instagram.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experience has not only helped me grow as a dancer but also as a person,&#8221; Smith said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former UCF Dance Team member is now a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. The Dallas Cowboys announced the girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,51561],"class_list":["post-377095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}