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As a cheer recruit, it’s important to use this to your advantage and proactively reach out to college coaches. Here are a few key steps to take to get on a coach’s radar: Send an introductory email: An introductory email can help establish a relationship with a coach and secure an initial evaluation.
Cheerleading coaches typically use recruiting video and in-person tryouts to evaluate a cheerleading recruit’s full ability, from jumps to stunts to tumbling. While each program comes with its own desired qualifications, many coaches generally look for baseline requirements within each position, including flyers, tumblers, stunters and dancers.
- Determine whether you will be a competitive or regular cheerleading squad. Competitive, or “all-star”, teams work with the goal of competing in and winning local, regional, and national cheerleading competitions.
- Decide on your squad’s name, colors, and regulations. These will likely be decided for you if you’re a traditional squad. For all-star squads, your regulations will be especially important, and will govern practice times and locations, uniform and travel costs, tryout guidelines and eligibility, insurance policies, team fees, community involvement and philanthropy, and discipline.
- Establish a bank account to keep track of your squad’s funds. It is extremely important that you not mix the squad’s funds with your personal funds.
- Find a place to practice, typically a gym. For all-star squads, this must be a space with adequate padding for stunting and tumbling practice, as well as a regulation-size floor mat to practice competition routines.
Additionally, cheer clinics are crucial to the cheerleading recruiting and tryout process. Cheer clinics at competitive colleges are designed to teach recruits what skills and routines will be performed at that school’s tryouts. Coaches cover the desired qualifications needed in each position and the cheers and stunts unique to that school.
- To start your college search, write down your priorities. As much as we all want to cheer in college, college prepares us for our future career that’ll pay our bills and put food on the table, so it’s important to keep that big picture in mind when choosing a college.
- Honestly assess your cheer skills. Sometimes I’d get emails from kids who weren’t very skilled, and they’d say their top schools were Kentucky, Kansas, and Alabama.
- Narrow down your college choices. Now that you know what factors are important to you, it’s time to do some research. For school info, check university web sites (Google them) and comparison sites like collegescorecard.ed.gov, noodle.com, or chegg.com.
- Get a real email address, then use it. I know kids use email less and less, but the problem is, you’re about to start getting “official” important emails from college admissions, scholarship, and financial aid offices, and possibly college coaches.
Be in the right position for YOU. Don’t be afraid to step up and try whatever skill the coach is asking you to try. Take initiative, and be consistent. Let the coaches see your potential. Do what you can do, and do it well, multiple times. Don’t hold back, but remember that it’s also okay to make mistakes.
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