Madeline Salter

About

NFL cheerleader, dancer, reality TV star, and digital creator known for being a multi-year member of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and for starring on the Netflix docuseries America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

Before Fame

She began dancing when she was 6 years old and started competing when she was 12 years old. She spent three years in high school on her drill team. she continued her training at Oklahoma City University, performing with the American Spirit Dance Company and the OCU Pep Dancers. She attended a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Meet the Team event in 2018, which sparked her long-term goal of joining the squad. She entered DCC training camp in 2019, auditioned officially in 2021, and made the team as a rookie for the 2021-2022 NFL season with parts of her journey featured on Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She returned as a veteran in 2022, 2023, and 2024 becoming a four-year member by the time America's Sweethearts was filmed.

Trivia

She is skilled in American Sign Language which she incorporates into community events and outreach.

Family Life

She is a second-generation Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader as her mother is former Cowboys cheerleader Shannon Hall Salter who cheered in the late 1980s. Her father Michael Salter was a cinematographer for the Cowboys. She has a younger brother named Carson who is a firefighter.

Associated With

She has cheered under longtime DCC director Kelli Finglass who also appears on America's Sweethearts and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.