For most introverts, performing in front of 68,000 people is a nightmare. For Lana Vogler, it’s just another weekend. For the last two years, Vogler has spent her weekends taking to the field with the New England Patriots cheerleading squad. Now, with the Patriots headed to the Super Bowl, the National Football League’s biggest game and America’s largest sporting event, Vogler is preparing for the performance of a lifetime.
“I’m just so overwhelmingly excited for the Super Bowl,” Vogler said. “The energy of the crowd is insane. Even if they might not be cheering for you while you’re dancing, it feels like they are, and you don’t get that same kind of hype wherever else you perform.” For Vogler, who has been bouncing between the intense energy of NFL stadiums and the insular world of studying behavioral neuroscience and philosophy at Northeastern University, Super Bowl weekend is a chance to, on the biggest stage possible, do what she’s committed her life to: dance.
