The Oklahoma City Thunder announced the two Thunder Girl hopefuls, Stacy White of Edmond and Erica Hatchell of Midwest City, who were chosen to participate in the first ever “People’s Choice” Thunder Girl vote on thunder.nba.com.
Beginning today fans can visit thunder.nba.com, view photos and videos of the two finalists and cast their vote for either Hatchell or White. Voting ends at noon Monday and the “People’s Choice” Thunder Girl will be announced shortly after on the Thunder site.
White currently lives in Edmond and graduated in 2002 from Edmond Memorial High School.
“It has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl,” White said. “Attending the games is so much fun, but to be part of that would be an amazing experience.”
On Tuesday, in front of a crowd of more 650 people, the Thunder hosted final auditions for the 2009-10 Thunder Girls at Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar and Grill” in Bricktown. With a process that started with more than 100 women last Saturday, 40 competed for a place on the team, and judges narrowed the selection down to 18 dancers.
Of the 18 dancers to make the squad, 10 come from Oklahoma, one from Barrington, Ill., and one from as far away as Tokyo, Japan.
Auditions were open to women over the age of 18 who were energetic, had dance experience and were interested in performing at Thunder home games and representing the Thunder organization in the community.
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