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- Where Is DCC's KayDianna Garza Now? All About Her Life After Leaving the Squad (and Why She Was Suspended)</p>
<p>Caroline BlairJune 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM</p>
<p>Courtesy of Netflix ©2025 ; KayDianna Garza/ Instagram</p>
<p>KayDianna in America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Season 2 ; KayDianna Garza poses for a photo in May 2025.</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza was a fourth-year veteran with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, but she left the team in 2025</p>
<p>Garza was initially suspended after speaking about a DCC scandal in a TikTok</p>
<p>The dancer has since been putting her efforts towards her podcast and dancing company</p>
<p>After a scandal rocked the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, KayDianna Garza was suspended and ended up leaving the squad for good.</p>
<p>Garza parted ways with the famed squad in the midst of season 2 of Netflix's hit docuseries, America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. She became the group's first leader after sixth-year DCC veteran Chandi Dayle broke a team rule on a trip to the Bahamas and stepped down from her leadership role.</p>
<p>Garza admitted to struggling with the responsibilities and was then suspended after briefly mentioning Dayle's Bahamas scandal during a TikTok Live. In April 2025, Garza officially announced that she had decided to quit the team.</p>
<p>"Though this door has closed, I trust fully in god's plan and the new doors he is preparing to open," she wrote on Instagram at the time. "I do not view this as a setback, but as a divine setup for what's next. He is not finished with me yet, and I am stepping forward with expectation and joy for all he has in store."</p>
<p>So, where is KayDianna Garza now? Here's everything to know about the former DCC member and where she is after quitting the team.</p>
<p>Who is KayDianna Garza?</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza/ Instagram</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza in December 2024.</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza, who also goes by KayDianna MacKenzie, was a fourth-year veteran on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders team during the 2024-2025 NFL season.</p>
<p>Garza is from The Woodlands, Texas, and began dancing when she was 2 years old, per her DCC bio. She was a studio dancer for 12 years and joined a team that went on to become 3x Worlds champions. Garza continued her love for dance when she attended Texas Christian University and was a TCU Showgirl and captain on the team for two years.</p>
<p>In addition to her dancing passion, she majored in news and media studies and minored in film, television and digital media.</p>
<p>In 2021, Garza auditioned for DCC and successfully made the squad for her rookie season.</p>
<p>"All my life people believed that I was a great performer and dancer, but I never believed that myself. Trying out for DCC was my way of showing myself what everyone else saw in me!" she said in her bio.</p>
<p>Garza explained that one of her "favorite parts" about being in DCC was "the emphasis on sisterhood and giving back!"</p>
<p>"DCC has such an amazing sisterhood and I am so grateful that I get to be a part of it!" she said. "Not only that, I'm blessed to be able to give back to my community through all of our appearances like visiting nursing homes or kids camps! Appearances like those have become a core memory for me and will forever touch my heart!"</p>
<p>While being a part of DCC, she founded KayDianna MacKenzie - Coaching & Choreography, where she mentors aspiring dancers.</p>
<p>In addition to her career, Garza has also shared aspects of her personal life. She began dating Eric Garza while they were both attending TCU in 2019, and they married in March 2023. The couple share three dogs, Duggie, Maizi and Joey Joy.</p>
<p>What was the Bahamas incident?</p>
<p>Courtesy of Netflix</p>
<p>Chandi and Jada in America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Season 2.</p>
<p>During season 2 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, a major scandal rocked the DCC. During a team trip to the Bahamas, sixth-year DCC veteran Dayle broke a rule by disclosing the team's hotel to an unknown man.</p>
<p>Jade Mclean, a fifth-year veteran, explained in a confessional that Dayle had "brought somebody into the room that no one had known" and made other DCC teammates "worried for their safety."</p>
<p>"To other people, it came off as, 'Oh my gosh, you put me in danger,' or, 'You weren't worried about my safety,' but I don't think she thought of that in an almost just a naive way," Mclean said. "She wasn't thinking about that at all. She was kind of thinking about what she needed at the time."</p>
<p>Dayle later clarified that she shared the information with the person because she needed someone to talk to about personal issues. She claimed that the person she met in the Bahamas told her "similar things that have happened in our past." Dayle also maintained that there was no sexual nature to their meetup and that he just "helped [her] in the moment."</p>
<p>"I was just kind of crumbling down and I was like, 'Dang, I feel like I have no one here to talk to, so it's nice to have someone to confide in.' I broke a DCC rule and had time with my friend," Dayle said. "It was probably the wrong place and time to do that, but selfishly, I had to do it for me because I feel like I was just losing it."</p>
<p>The incident left the team divided, with some people feeling more affected than others. DCC head choreographer Judy Trammell later shared that in the aftermath, Dayle took a "leave of absence" from the team and as first leader.</p>
<p>Dayle later revealed that she was struggling with the pressure to "wake up everyday and be perfect." After her leave of absence, she decided to return to the team but in less of a leadership capacity.</p>
<p>In Dayle's absence, Garza became the first leader.</p>
<p>Why did KayDianna Garza leave the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders?</p>
<p>Courtesy of Netflix</p>
<p>America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.</p>
<p>In the midst of Garza stepping into the role of first leader, she faced her own challenges as a result of the Bahamas scandal.</p>
<p>After viewers started hearing rumblings about the Bahamas ordeal, someone asked Garza what happened during a TikTok Live. She replied that she would "make a video on that one day" and "talk about the whole thing." Garza's comments quickly began going viral, and she received a call from a DCC staff member telling her she was suspended and "under investigation for being a bully and harassing."</p>
<p>During her suspension, Garza decided to "take myself out of the organization" and "respect myself."</p>
<p>"I definitely didn't feel supported, I felt like I was just a body," she said in a confessional. "It was as if Chandi got the perks of being a first leader and I got the responsibility part of it. When all this went down I was confused, my teammates were confused, we just didn't know what was gonna happen."</p>
<p>DCC director Kelli Finglass also confirmed that it was "her choice" to leave the team.</p>
<p>On April 27, 2025, Garza publicly announced her departure from the team and explained her decision in an Instagram post.</p>
<p>"After prayerful consideration, I have made the decision to step away from my role with the Dallas Cowboys organization," she wrote. "While this was not the ending I had envisioned, it is one I felt led to make for myself, in full faith and peace. I'm deeply grateful for four unforgettable seasons—filled with growth, meaningful friendships, and memories that will stay with me forever."</p>
<p>Garza ended her post by thanking "everyone who has supported me on this journey."</p>
<p>What has KayDianna Garza said about season 2 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders?</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza/ Instagram</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza with fellow Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.</p>
<p>Although Garza is no longer a member of DCC, she appeared on season 2 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and has been actively promoting and talking about it on social media.</p>
<p>Ahead of the season 2 premiere in June, Garza posted a TikTok and Instagram video of her promoting the Netflix series by quizzing her family on DCC trivia. In another TikTok video, she spoke about how her "journey has been far from easy" but she was trusting that she was in "God's hands."</p>
<p>Garza has also shown how she's still close friends with some of her former DCC teammates. Ahead of the last day of tryouts in June, she shared a video of her getting a basket of goodies and delivering them to her friends auditioning for the group.</p>
<p>However, since her departure and TikTok Live scandal were featured in season 2, she also teased that some of her friends and family members have asked her about what happened. Garza posted a TikTok video on June 25 where she showed herself picking up a pretend phone and mouthing the lyrics, "Hey, so I got a question," from Kesha's song, "Your Love Is My Drug." She wrote over the video, "All of my friends and family after watching AS season 2."</p>
<p>"Lots of questions, answers to come🫶🏽," she captioned the video.</p>
<p>Where is KayDianna Garza now?</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza/ Instagram</p>
<p>KayDianna Garza smiles in a photo in June 2025.</p>
<p>Garza has continued to pursue her passion of dancing by coaching and mentoring dancers with her company, KayDianna MacKenzie - Coaching & Choreography.</p>
<p>"Known for my talkative nature, I thrive on making everyone feel like a best friend," she captioned a post about the company in April 2024. "My passion goes beyond that— I'm on a mission to empower girls, instill confidence, and celebrate their dreams!"</p>
<p>In addition to her dancing company, Garza also launched a podcast called KayDianna's Korner on May 2, 2025.</p>
<p>"I just truly wanted this platform to really show that this is a place for everyone," she said in her announcement video. "This is a place where you can be yourself, this is a place where you can find friends, you can find family, you can take off the mask at the end of the day and just be you and not be afraid to be you and just have real talk, and you, me and someone else from time to time talking about life."</p>
<p>Garza has also been enjoying more free time since leaving the squad. She and her husband, Eric, took a European vacation in June and traveled to Paris, Rome and Florence.</p>
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