In 2009 People magazine named Rycroft to their list of the World’s Most Beautiful People and Maxim named her number 99 on their list of the “Hot 100 of 2009”. As a result of being one of the most popular contestants on CMT’s reality TV series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team’s first season Rycroft was selected as one of the 35 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) for the 2006 NFL season and she remained on the DCC squad through the 2007 NFL season. She married Tye Strickland on December 12, 2009 and she gave birth to their baby girl Ava Grace Strickland on February 16, 2011.
