Three cheers! Lobo Dance Team members graduate to the NFL
Everyone’s a Lobo, but now three members of the University of New Mexico dance team are a Colt, Seahawk and Ram, too. Malia Dumlao, Isabelle Vigil and Paloma Lopez have been named to the Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders, Seattle Seahawks Dancers and Los Angeles Rams Cheerleaders. Each dancer is a graduating senior at UNM and will be joining the squads for the 2026 season.
Lopez looked to her ...
Everyone’s a Lobo, but now three members of the University of New Mexico dance team are a Colt, Seahawk and Ram, too. Malia Dumlao, Isabelle Vigil and Paloma Lopez have been named to the Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders, Seattle Seahawks Dancers and Los Angeles Rams Cheerleaders. Each dancer is a graduating senior at UNM and will be joining the squads for the 2026 season.
Lopez looked to her hometown team for an NFL opportunity and auditioned with the Rams Cheerleaders during their open-call tryouts. She made it past the semifinals and was excited for the finals interview process, which gave her a chance to show the team who she was. “I feel like the hard part was trying to represent yourself in the preliminary and semifinal rounds, because they don’t know who you are,” Lopez said.
“They don’t know anything about you. They don’t know where you’re from. And once I made (it) into finals, I was really relieved, because I knew the coaches would get to see how I was as a teammate and how I interacted with the other dancers.
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