Houston Top Stories Revealed - Texans cheerleaders & arrogant winners

Hey Houston, Nicole Hickl here and it's time to get you up to speed with our hottest stories. Can you take a guess as where I am? Three letters. HTC. Yes that's right. We are at the 2014 Houston Texans Cheerleaders finalists practice. There are 50 girls here as you can see strutting their stuff and they are shaking their poms to hopefully be one of 35 girls who will make the team. And coach Alto Gary says that she plans to take those girls to the Super Bowl. But you don't have to hear it from me let's see what she has to say about the upcoming season. I definitely think this is one of the biggest turnouts and the one thing other NFL coaches say like, you know, how do you get so many people? Why are there so many people there? I am just blessed that, you know, I am honored to have this many people show up at our trial and it's been consistently throughout this whole program for the past 12 years. So many girls, how do you narrow it down to 50 finalists? That's probably pretty tough, so what are you looking for? You know, that night there are so many people and there are so many things going on, like the first round we are just weeding out, like okay, what looks the part. And then at that point just have to go off a quick look. Yes. No, in my head. Because if I sit there and talk myself into it I can talk almost all those girls into being on the squad. She'll be nice, I can do this. No. Yes. No. And I just have to be just blunt with myself and just cut. It was kind of harsh this year because there were so many people and so many good people. So when we got to round three, you know I haven't done this before, I kind of did the whole American Idol thing. This line come up, and, you know, five, six, seven, eight, thank you, your trip ends here. Good bye. So you know, with so many people, I had to do that. Because I had to just make that quick decision. With the new team, you know, coach Bill O'Brien basically cut everyone, like everyone is gone so it's a new football team. Do you expect it to be a new squad like, do you have big things planned for this 2014 squad? I definitely have big things planned. I have some, I am waiting, I can't even spill the beans tonight I want to so bad. I have to get the final, you know, okay. But I am looking to always be bigger and better and this program, we are one of the newer, ah, programs in the league so we are stepping up with the big dogs and doing big things and so I definitely have a lot of plans for us. And far as having girls, you know, around for a long time, I always tells my vets: Let's be a vet, why are you here for? You are not here just to look cute I need you to be a vet. And then the longer you stay, I need you to be a leader. So I've noticed in the past couple of years, social media, you have really helped put the Houston Texans Cheerleaders out there, get a lot of publicity, is that your goal to try to, even though you are kind of new to the NFL, you know, cheerleading team, is that your goal just to get out there and have everyone know okay this is HTC and we are ready, we are coming. You know with social media, it's so new and I was looking at it and at first I didn't like it, but I was, wait a minute, this is free. You know let me use this to our advantage, and then we can be more personable to our fans through social media. And it's just grown and we communicate to fans and to other girls who want to try out and we always try to give entertaining content. HTC episodes. Just to keep them coming back. We are number one in social media and that's just, you know, us sitting here doing hard work and, you know, it's me and a couple of other alumni and we are just push push pushing, and it's paying off. So I am really excited. While these girls keep sweating it out, you can actually vote for who will be on the official squad. Voting will end April 15 and then the final squad will be announced April 16. And speaking of finals, the final score for the Yukon versus Kentucky game still has people Wait, we are talking about basketball on a football field, hold on (snaps). Oooh. Okay. Much better. So at the NCAA championship game the Huskies proved that their bark came with a big bite at the end. Yukon is the best college basketball team in the nation after beating Kentucky 60-54. Former Yukon Ray Allen was in the middle of the celebration, taking a break from the Miami Heat to party with the next wave of Yukon guards. And one Yukon guard had a lot to say at the trophy ceremony stage. Ladies and gentlemen, you are looking at the hungry Huskies. This is what happens when you ban us last year, two years. We work so hard for it, two years. Arrogant or was he speaking the truth? We'll let you decide. For getting up to speed, I am Nicole Hickl, visit the links below for more hot stories. Until then, we'll see you next time.