<p>I've wanted to try out cheerleading for a number of years now, but for one reason or another I haven't been able to (injuries, time constraints, taking the fall semester off)...</p>
<p>Anyway, I've decided that this year I want to try out for the squad. I go to a small, D2 school, and cheerleading isn't very big. The squad cheers for the basketball team (we don't have football), does a little stunting, and very little tumbling. I've watched a lot of cheerleading, and I have a lot of dance experience. Do you think I've got a chance?</p>
<p>There's an informational meeting on Monday that I'm gonna go to and hopefully that'll give me a better idea of what to expect.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in it then why not try out and see what happens? If you don’t try out you’ll never know if you might have made the squad. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m gonna go to the meeting and get some more info and then make my decision. I don’t even know what the practice schedule is like, or what the cost is (it’s a club sport so you have to pay for things yourself).</p>
<p>If cheer isn’t big at your school I definitely think you have a chance. Make sure when you have try outs and clinic (some schools do this so you learn things that you’ll be performing at tryouts) make sure you smile when you preform and have a good artitude, it make not seem like much but people notice if you’re really trying your hardest and earnestly want to get better and it does make a difference (unless you go somewhere that cheer is super competitive but it doesn’t sound like you do). I’m cheering at my college and one girl never did cheer or gymnastics but she did dance in high school, she’s one of the hardest workers on the team because she knows she wants to be her best. I definitely think you should try out and just be happy when you do it, and you have dance experience so that will be helpful! Good luck and let everyone here know what happens with try outs!</p>
<p>Yeah, cheer isn’t big or competitive at my school at all. It’s a club sport, and it’s pretty new. I’ve seen about 3 routines, and none of them had any tumbling whatsoever, and the stunting was very basic (basket tosses, libertys, a couple scorpions and arabesques).</p>
<p>I’m way jealous. I’m like you – I’ve wanted to try cheerleading my whole life, but for one reason or another, it’s never worked out. But this year was going to be the year. I’ve been working all summer on getting into shape and improving my flexibility, and I was going to try out at the beginning of fall quarter. I’m a senior, and every year I’ve been at my school, they’ve had tryouts in both the spring and the fall. However, THIS year, they’ve changed it; they had the tryouts last spring, but they discontinued the fall tryouts (without any warning). So I’ll have no chance to try out, and since I’m a senior, it’s not like I can do it next year. :(</p>
<p>So if you have the opportunity, you should definitely take advantage of it! And your dance experience should definitely help you. (In fact, when I was in high school, my mom discouraged me from trying out because of my lack of dance experience, in spite of my gymnastics experience; she thought that the dance aspect would be more important.) Good luck!</p>
<p>If I went to a non-competitive school, I would. I LOVED cheerleading in high school. Sadly, I go to a huge D1 university now with a full squad of cheerleaders… most of whom did All-Stars.</p>
<p>Sadly cheering in high school usually isn’t enough to cheer D1 in college.</p>
<p>But if you want to do it and you’re willing to work hard, then just do it. I personally really enjoyed it immensely in high school.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen bb cheerleaders do any tumbling. All they do is spin around and look pretty. I think it’s more about your state of mind than your physique.</p>
<p>Well I went to the info meeting, and it’s a no go. First of all, I can’t afford it…it’s about $200-250 and I don’t have that kind of money. Second of all, absolutely no jewelry is allowed, and I have 5 piercings that I can’t take the jewelry out of or else they would close and I’m not about to lose my piercings. I love them, and they were EXPENSIVE! I have about $150 in piercings! I also have some other jewelry that I literally never take off because I’m not comfortable doing so. Oh well. It was a nice thought.</p>
<p>are you serious? 200 bucks for tryout at a D-II school? ■■■…</p>
<p>Well I mean, I guess being associated with the bball team makes them legit, and think they can do whatever they like. But hey, maybe the funds are actually used towards hotel and travel fees.</p>
<p>It’s not to tryout…it’s for the team warmup, the shoes, parts of the uniform etc. It’s because it’s a club sport so the school doesn’t pay for anything.</p>
<p>You would pay $250+ if you were at a big D1 cheer school too. Just about every team has the squad buy their uniforms these days because they’re custom fitted. In high school we pay that much for the uniform plus activity fees, ASB fees, and competition fees.</p>
<p>I didn’t know cheerleading wasn’t covered by the university. My friend in marching band gets paid to play. Granted, it’s only enough to cover the hotel fees, but still. I thought student activity fees and things like that would cover these costs. I’m surprised, I never thought cheerleading was actually a student organization, and not really part of the university</p>
<p>The actual uniforms themselves are just borrowed by the girls squad, not owned individually.</p>
<p>It would be different if I went to a school that competed or even traveled with the team or anything, but the squad cheers only during halftime at home games.</p>