Category: Cheerleaders Tryouts

Georgia Tech cheer focuses on recruiting, through combines, clinics and official visits. As of September 29, 2026, Georgia Tech’s cheer pages didn’t list a tryout date for the 2027-28 team. This guide follows the official Cheer and Recruitment Interest pages on RamblinWreck.com. The Program Game days. The cheerleaders work all home and away football games, […]

Indiana University cheerleading is part of IU Athletics’ Spirit Squad. IU’s published guidance describes an in-person Selection Weekend in Bloomington. This guide covers eligibility, required paperwork and spring-clinic preparation using IU’s official Cheer Try-Outs/Spring Clinic page and IU Cheerleading Manual; confirm current-cycle details directly with IU. IU’s Two Cheer Squads According to the IU Cheerleading […]

The University of Minnesota doesn’t hold traditional cheer tryouts. In 2020 the Gopher Spirit Squad moved to a full recruiting model: athletes are evaluated through clinics, a recruit questionnaire and a recruit video, and those who receive an offer sign a Letter of Intent for a roster spot. This guide follows the program’s official Minnesota […]

Northwestern doesn’t post a cheer tryout packet, dates or a skills list. Its Northwestern Cheerleading page still invites students to ask about the 2023-24 Spirit Squad. As of September 29, 2026, no tryout details for the 2026-27 or 2027-28 teams have been posted. The way in is to contact the Spirit Squad staff directly. This […]

The Fighting Illini Cheerleading team is made up of coed and all-girl stunt groups, typically about 36 members. It is part of the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, and new members are chosen through a qualifying video followed by an in-person final tryout. This guide follows the official Illinois Cheerleading Tryouts page. Where the cycle stands […]

This guide covers cheerleading at UNC Charlotte, officially the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and often called simply Charlotte. Its teams are the Charlotte 49ers, and they compete in The American Conference. The guide sticks to what Charlotte Athletics has actually published about joining the cheer team, because very little is posted right now. […]

North Texas Cheer is the cheer program of the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton, whose Mean Green teams play in the American Conference. The program is run by UNT’s Student Activities Center, not the athletics website, so its tryout information lives on the North Texas Cheer Clinics/Tryouts page. UNT fields two equal squads, […]

Florida Atlantic’s cheerleaders are part of FAU Spirit, alongside the dance team and Owlsley the mascot. The program is run by FAU Athletics, not as a campus club sport. It’s also on the rise: in April 2026, FAU’s cheer team competed in the Advanced All-Girl Division IA at NCA College Nationals for the first time […]

The University of South Florida has two separate cheerleading teams — a Coed team and an All Girl team — plus the SunDolls, which are USF’s official dance team rather than a cheer squad. Each has its own coaches and its own selection process, so the first step is working out which team you’re actually […]

Troy University picks its cheerleaders at an in-person tryout each spring. You pre-register online, bring a short list of documents and a cash fee, and go through a two-day tryout that starts with a conditioning test. The Trojans cheer for a Sun Belt Conference athletics program and compete nationally: the squad finished seventh in the […]