Ex-Cowboys Cheerleader Reece Weaver's Bold Move After Retirement
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Reece Weaver wasted no time in making another major decision after announcing her surprising retirement from the iconic squad. “We also just moved to Alabama, so we’re really excited about that,” Weaver, 24, exclusively told Us Weekly about life with her husband, Will Allman. “I think right now it’s just trying to figure out what life is and being excited for all the things that are thrown at us.” Weaver’s retirement was announced in season 3 of Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, which premiered Tuesday, June 16. In her three seasons on the team, Weaver became the undeniable breakout star of the group. Suddenly with much more free time on her hands, Weaver compared her new reality to that of a parent sending their kid off to college.
“We’re just soaking in this time right now,” she said. “I don’t want to say that we’re empty nesters — because that’s kind of where our parents are right now, they can just kind of pick up and go wherever — but we are kind of living in our empty nester season.” Weaver and Allman recently saw a Broadway performance of Chicago, starring Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas, which helped spark an idea about hitting the Great White Way herself. “That would be a dream of mine,” she told Us. “In high school, we wrote down 10 things that we want to do in the next 10 years. One of them was DCC [Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders]. I had a few other things. But one of them was to be on Broadway. So, we’ll see! That would be such a pinch-me moment.”
With her cheerleading career suddenly in the rearview mirror, Weaver had a poignant message for the younger version of herself who joined the team in the spring of 2023. “I would say just soak it in,” Weaver reflected. “We are so busy. Events and appearances, we are in and we are out. I think sometimes we get caught up in, ‘This is a job. We gotta execute.’ Which, of course, we want to make sure that we keep our standards high and show the world who we are, but I often think that I missed out on maybe looking around the corner, soaking it in and taking a few deep breaths.” She added, “There are some really cool twists and turns and fun things that you get to experience. You don’t want to miss out on them, so soak it all in.” Season 3 of America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is available to stream now.
