Cheerleading Tryouts

Organize your cheerleading tryouts!

 One Month Prior:

____  Have administration approve tryout process.

­­____  Set up date, time, and judges with Spirit Event

         Coordinators.

____  Request a clinic instructor or advise your seniors of their teaching responsibilities.

____  Arrange for tryout area (gymnasium, auditorium, etc…)

____  Submit morning announcements.

____  Meet with prospective cheerleaders. Hand out permission slips and medical information sheets.

 

 

Two Weeks Prior:

____  Meet with your senior cheerleaders to make up tryout material.

____  Confirm faculty help (tabulators, etc…)

 

 

Tryout Week:

____  Conduct a pre-tryout meeting to collect medical forms and permission slips.

____  Have senior cheerleaders or your clinic instructor teach tryout material.

____  Review material.

 

Materials Necessary For Tryouts:

 

____  Numbers for participants and safety pins or large labels with numbers

____  Pencils, pens

____  Calculators.  You may want to use your school’s accountant in order to combine the judges’ scores.

____  Judging forms (Copy the sample forms from this website!)

____  Tables/Chairs for judges