Buffalo Jill of The Week Lisa

This week, we take a look at 5th year vet Lisa as our Buffalo Jill of The Week. This season, Lisa is Omarlla's co-captain and can be found on gamedays dancing next to rookies Briana and Myesha. Lisa is one of those girls who can be found at the center of everything without trying to be. That trait has less to do with her beauty than it does with her personality. Besides the fact that she loves to enjoy herself, she also loves to ensure those around her are enjoying themselves as well. Lisa is proof that persistence pays off. Quite often, when a prospective Jill misses the cut at tryouts, she'll give up and not try again. We can be thankful Lisa is not that and so can she. She won the dance rookie of the year award in 2007 and has been the dance veteran on the year the past 2 seasons. She's been cheering non-stop since the age of 4 and we can only hope she continues for several more years. It's not just those of us who see her at the Ralph that appreciate her contributions, either. A few years ago, she was part of a group of  7 Buffalo Jills who gave up their Thanksgiving holidays to visit the US Military stationed in the Balkan region. You can read more about Lisa at http://buffalojills.net/article.asp?id=1961213 Lisa's secondary photo was taken at the Open Practice the Jills held for family and friends of the alumni that were performing in the October 9th pregame performance. Shown posing for the camera are Lisa and Murissa.

Lisa and Murissa

As a co-captain this year, she didn't have to try out so instead, we'll take a look back at last year's tryout video from 1st cuts. Valerie and Lisa performed together their last few years trying out with matching outfits and drawing matching applause as seen here.

Buffalo Jill of The Week Jessica

Bri and Jessica

This week, we take a look at Jessica as our Buffalo Jill of The Week. Spending her gamedays as an Ambassador, Jessica kept it quiet to her family that she was trying out for the Jills and when they found out, they couldn't have been more proud. She didn't keep it quiet to her entire family, mind you. Her younger sister Briana shared her secret...and followed her big sister's example and tried out as well. I've been working closely with the Jills since 2005 and while we've had 2 pairs twins on the squad  in that time, this is the first set of sisters of different ages that the Jills have had in that time. But besides being a loving big sister, Jessica is also reportedly quite a cook as well and loves trying out cooking from all over, which makes living in Western NY so nice since there's such a wide variety to choose from all over the area. Obviously she stays in great shape though and loves to run. She even finished a half-marathon and I would imagine she plans to do it again and maybe more. You can read more about Jessica at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyqzKruHa8z24I1hA5E3evjDF3xJd3V_N3yUm-n8MZM/edit Jessica's secondary pic comes from the 9th Annual Buffalo Jills Golf Tournament and features sisters Briana and Jessica posing for the camera before the golfers started arriving for the day.

Congratulations to Laura!

Victoria Hong, Laura, and outgoing CW23 host Allie Hartwick 

The last few months, TV station WNLO, CW23 in Buffalo, has been searching for its newest star and after auditioning over 60 people, including 1 Bandettes alumnus and 6 Jills and Jills alumni, they narrowed the list down to 23, including 4 Jills and alumni with the use of online voting. The final 5 were selected and were brought to Hamburg's McKinley Mall, where it all began, to tape the selection to be aired Wednesday night on CW23. They taped 5 different endings and when they aired it finally, Jills ambassador squad co-captain Laura emerged victorious. In addition to appearing in commercials and at community events, Laura will be co-hosting Winging It Buffalo Style weekday mornings on CW23 at 8am for the next year.
http://www.cw23.com/dpp/cw_star/watch-meet-your-next-cw-star

Valerie headed to Hawaii!!

Last night, the Buffalo Jills became one of the 1st squads in the NFL to elect their Pro Bowl representative and this year chose 6th year vet Valerie! Val gets to head to Hawaii the week before the Super Bowl and represent the Buffalo Jills after her 1st season as a captain. She's one of only 2 6th year vets on the squad, along with fellow captain, Christina, who went to the Pro Bowl 2 years ago. In her time on the squad, she's been a photographer's dream with her fun and sexy poses and is known for going to the prom more than anyone. You see, 97Rock held contests for a few years with the prize being a prom date with a Buffalo Jill. The 1st couple of years, it was automatically Valerie. The last, she was chosen by the contest winner from a pool of 6 Jills.
Congratulations Valerie on a well-deserved honor!!

Katy and Laura vying for the CW23 job

Laura, Allie Hartwick, and Katy (2009 Jills)

WNLO-TV, CW23 in Buffalo, has employed a spokesperson for the last 4 years, a person who represents the station in the community and in advertisements among other things. For the 1st two years, Lydia Dominick held the job, which is given with 1-year contracts so that there's always a fresh face in the job to attract the station's normal demographic of viewers. Lydia brought a style to the station with her personality as well as her beauty and covered Buffalo Jills tryouts in 2008 and 2009 for the station. She even wound up becoming a sort of honorary Jill after her work with the squad. Her replacement, Allie Hartwick, brought a different sort of style to the job for the last two years as she grew with the role and had many experiences to take from it. Now, they've been looking for the next person to take the job for the last couple of months and they have it narrowed down to a field of 5. Today, they taped a special at the McKinley Mall in Hamburg, NY to introduce the new CW23 star to the public. However, they kept the winner a total secret, even to those competing for the role. They filmed 5 different endings for the show, one with each of the contestants winning the job. They'll be airing the finished product on Wednesday at 7pm ET and while we wish the best for whomever is chosen for the role, we definitely have someone we're rooting for to get the job, or in this case, 2 someones.
See the pics from today at http://buffaloprocheerbuffalojills.shutterfly.com/pictures/28031
Katy spent the 2009 season as a Buffalo Jills Ambassador, including a cover shot on the Buffalo Jills swimsuit calendar, after having interned at 97Rock and helping out with Jills events in 2008. She's less than a month away from graduating with her degree in broadcast journalism.
Laura is currently in her 5th season with the Jills and is the co-captain of the Buffalo Jills Ambassador Squad. In addition to her work on the Jills, she's very possibly the world's most well-known Jill as the Martin Archery Girl and has done her share of TV work with her own show on ESPN2 last summer.
Good luck to everyone in this contest but especially to our own Katy and Laura.