Category: Cheerleaders Tryouts

Wake Forest University competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as the Demon Deacons. Wake Forest Cheer is part of the athletics department’s Spirit Program, with the dance team and the Demon Deacon mascot. The squad cheers at football and men’s and women’s basketball, leads traditions and appears at campus events, and also takes part […]

West Virginia University is a member of the Big 12 Conference, and WVU Cheerleading is part of the Mountaineer Spirit Program with the WVU Dance Team. Starting with the 2026-27 season, WVU replaced its Gold and Blue squads with one co-ed cheerleading team that supports football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball and appears at select […]

Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, competes in the Southern Conference (SoCon) as the Terriers. Wofford Cheerleading is one of the college’s spirit squads, with the dance team, the WOCO Band and Boss the Terrier. The team cheers at home and away football games, men’s and women’s basketball, and the SoCon Tournament, and leads the […]

Loyola University Chicago’s cheerleaders are one of three Rambler Spirit Teams, with the Dance Team and the LU Wolf mascots. The teams are run by Loyola Athletics, and cheer and dance tryouts are held each April. For the 2026-27 season, cheer tryouts were held April 10–11, 2026, at the Alfie Norville Practice Facility. As of […]

Lafayette College picks its cheerleaders through a short online tryout, not a spring tryout weekend. Lafayette Athletics’ Lafayette Cheerleaders page asks interested women and men to submit a brief tryout through a Google Form by June 1. The page doesn’t say which season that deadline belongs to, and as of September 30, 2026, no newer […]

James Madison University’s spirit program has three teams: All-Girl, Co-Ed and the Duke Dog mascot team. JMU describes cheerleading as a program that “operates under JMU Athletics and is a scholarship-funded program.” All teams cheer at home football, basketball and volleyball games; a select group travels to away football games and the Sun Belt Conference […]

High Point University competes in the Big South Conference as the Panthers. The HPU Cheerleaders cheer at all men’s and women’s home basketball games, volleyball games, and select other games and events. Several members represent HPU at the Big South Basketball Tournament in early March. HPU has also added competition to the program: the roster […]

Georgia Southern has a coed team and an all-girl team. They cheer at Eagles football and basketball games, lead the crowd at Paulson Stadium in the traditional “Georgia! Southern!” chant, and compete at NCA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida. Georgia Southern plays in the Sun Belt Conference. Where the cycle stands (October 1, 2026): […]

Framingham State University’s cheerleading team is a club sport, not a varsity team. It runs through the university’s Club Sports Program, which Framingham State Athletics lists alongside men’s lacrosse, men’s rugby and women’s rugby. The university doesn’t publish tryout dates, skill requirements or a team page for cheer, so the best first step is to […]

Florida International University’s cheerleaders are part of the FIU Spirit Program, along with the FIU Dazzlers dance team. The squad cheers at FIU football games and men’s and women’s home basketball games, and FIU competes in Conference USA. FIU doesn’t hold a traditional spring tryout with a clinic. Its most recent tryout was a fall […]