May 17, 2010/ Cheer Tryouts

I'm happy to say that this week is our final week of regular school! It will be a final week to review and next week will be exams and the start of summer! Yesterday was the first day of cheer tryouts. There were about 30 girls trying out, and overall everyone did pretty well. The only concern I see is technique when it comes to motions for jumps and cheers. We first learned the fight song, which is simple for most of us, but it may have been difficult for girls who will be new at our school. Then we moved on to jumps which was fun for some of us. Then we broke off into groups based by our grade level and learned three different chants and the main tryout cheer. After that, we moved on to the dance section, and learned two short combos that we will perform in the tryout. Today will be a "mock tryout" where we review over everything and practice a "run-through" of what our tryout will be like. The tryout begins with our entrance/"spirit" on, where you have the opportunity to tumble, and chant however you'd like. Then you come to the center of the court and show your jump sequence which consists and four jumps and two of them are required to be toe-touches. Then you and the other two girls in your tryout group will chant two of the three chants you learned and then you will all perform the fight song, tryout cheer, and both of the dances together. It's exciting and makes me a little nervous but I'm looking forward to it!