My name is Teresa Shear and I am the Director of Cheerleaders and Game Day Entertainment for the Broncos. I will have a regular blog here on DenverBroncos.com and I thought the best way to start my entries would be with our 2008 Calendar Shoot in Cozumel, Mexico!
We arrived last Saturday compliments of FunJet Vacations and are enjoying our accommodations here on the island at the Iberostar Resort. It is beautiful here and so far the weather has been perfect. A little hot, but perfect for photo purposes.
As soon as we arrived, we decided to shoot a sunset shot with Bri Bateman. You never know when you are going to get the perfect sunset, so we didn’t want to miss out on an opportunity. There were some clouds the first night and we had a very short window to get the perfect shot. We did get some great photos, but decided to repeat the same shot on Day 2.
Day 2 started with Keela Harris at the Hacienda Monte Cristo. Keela has been on our team for four years and is one of our leaders. She is beautiful and looked fabulous in both suits we tried on her.
Our second shot on Day 2 featured Candice Jones, one of our Captains. She models part time and knows exactly how to pose in front of a camera. It was an easy, quick shoot and then we were back off to the beach to try to nail down the perfect sunset.
Day 3 was busy. Three more shots to do. We started in our hotel lobby with Serita Archuleta in a very high fashion red suit. We tried to add in one of the hotel parrots. Of course, I wanted the red parrot and he was the difficult one. He made so much noise and tried to bite everyone that tried to move him, so we added in the green parrot – Pepe – at the end of the shoot. It never fails, we always try to add in an animal and they never seem to want to cooperate! Pepe did get comfortable and took some good shots. We will see if he makes the calendar!
Next we traveled to Playa Chen Rio to photograph Erica Weston and Sara Lockhart. These two girls could be twins, they look so much alike. The surf at this beach is beautiful. Lots of cool rocks and the waves are turquoise when they crash into the beach. The only challenge was the wind! It was blowing hard and wind and hair don’t mix too well. We had both of the girls get completely wet and strategically wet down their hair so it didn’t look matted, like most of us look when we get out of the water. I love their photo. I think it will be one of my favorites in the calendar this year.
Next we traveled about ½ mile down the beach to set up for Sarah Culter’s shot. Sarah has been on our team for five years and is one of our captains. She has also been voted our TEAM CLOWN for four years running. In addition to being a ham, she also is extremely photogenic. She has this amazing smile that just lights up a picture. Again, wind was the issue. We had to change her position many times just to get the wind to blow her hair out of her face. It was beautiful, difficult, but beautiful.
So, now I have caught you up to Day 4 and will write more in a few days. I do have to say that this is one of the best parts of my job. It is a lot of work, more than most people know, but traveling to Mexico with our Cheerleaders is always fun. They are always the life of the party, make friends everywhere we go and are always trying to convert everyone they meet into Broncos fans.
Cheers!
Teresa
Tags: Brianne Bateman, Calendar, Candice Jones, Erica Weston, Keela Harris, Mexico, Sara Lockhart, Sarah Culter, Serita Archuleta
Looks like the girls are having a great time…
As hard as they work I hope they are getting some time for some fun in the sun!!!
TSG
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Hope you had a great time in Cozumel; that’s where we spent our honeymoon. I look forward to seeing you gals in action this year, enjoy the rest of the summer!
BTW, the green parrot is perfect.
Oh yeah, and so is Serita..
Awesome shots!
Hi Teresa,
Thanks for posting all of these great pictures. Hope you all are having a great trip there - and also finding some time to kick back and enjoy the sunshine a bit between all of the shots.
Just thought I’d mention what a great group of young women you have on the squad. I’m sure you already knew that - but just wanted you to know how much we appreciate them - not just for their performances, but for all they do in the community.
I’ve really enjoyed Laura’s Blog and getting to “meet” her - and a couple of her teammates.
WOW! Another great addition of the cheerleader calendar is on the way! WOOHOO! I sure hope Kim Taylor will be in it again…. Teresa you guys do great work… As if we needed another reason to be Bronco Fans, the squad epitomizes the best the league has to offer.
cant wait for the day it is issued
Just wanted to give a big shout out to the broncos cheerleaders as the winner of the contest i would just like to say that these ladies have helped me to love the broncos organization even more, i didn’t even think it was
possible. They are great classy ladies and they love all us fan not just
because they have to but because they love us all. I love football, the Broncos organization is the greatest and the world famous dallas cowboys cheerleaders have nothing on our ladies in orange and blue.
GO BRONCOS CHEERLEADERS
Buy the calender it is worth it rob and teresa did a great job setting it up.
Gorgeous pics, I must say. . . you couldn’t ask for a more beautiful group of women to be representing your favorite team. You are all gorgeous, and just taking the time to write these blogs and post these pics is really awesome. I am positive the calender will be top-notch. I can’t wait to see it. I will be in Mexico the first week of August, to bad I missed yall, it would have been a pleasure to meet such beautiful and driven women.
I must say our team had such a wonderful time shooting our calendar this year. All of the positive feedback and remarks are so wonderful to hear and greatly appreciated. Our team differentiates itself a little from other cheerleading teams in the NFL , in that, our director and staff are deliberate about putting each and every woman in the calendar every year. This trip was also unique because we were able to have two very special fans along for the ride; the contest winners that attended the trip were a lot of fun, not to mention some pretty serious Broncos fans! We always enjoy spending time with one another on the team, but when we have the opportunity to meet the fans, especially when they have the opportunity to travel with us, it opens up our Broncos family that much more!
We are excited to launch our calendar at our calendar release party coming up on August 16th at Invesco field. Look forward to seeing you all there!
Keela Harris
Hi Teresa
Great pictures - I’m interested in writing this up for This is Cozumel, could you contact me so I can get a little more information?
Many thanks
Ian
Editor
This is Cozumel - news and information from Cozumel, Mexico.
http://www.thisiscozumel.com
info@thisiscozumel.com
the cheerleaders are off the hook
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