Category: Cheerleaders Tryouts

App State Cheer holds its tryouts in May. They start with a tryout prep clinic, and only invited athletes go on to the two-day tryout. This guide follows App State Athletics’ “App State 26-27 Cheerleading Tryout Info” post. The page address still says 2024-25, but the content covers the 2026 cycle (tryouts for the 2026-27 […]

Boise State’s cheer team competes under Boise State Athletics’ Spirit Squad program (broncosports.com/sports/spirit-squad), which also includes the Mane Line dance team and mascot Buster Bronco. Boise State Athletics currently competes in the Pac-12 (not the Mountain West, contrary to outdated info still circulating online). This guide reflects the program’s current recruitment process as of our […]

The University of Memphis cheerleaders are part of the Memphis Spirit Squads, along with the dance teams (the Pom Squad and the Ambush Crew) and Pouncer, the mascot. The spirit program performs at all home football and basketball games, and the cheer program has coed and all-girl athletes. Tryouts are run by the spirit program, […]

Notre Dame cheerleading is a co-ed program only. It usually has 36–48 members, split evenly between men and women. Every woman is a coed top and every man a coed base, and there are no all-girl squads. The team is divided into the Gold Squad, which is the main travel squad for football, and the […]

At Oregon State, cheerleading is part of Beaver Spirit, which the university calls the official performance team of OSU Athletics. It has two parts: Beaver Cheer and the Beaver Dance Team. Beaver Cheer is one combined squad that includes both all-girl (group) and co-ed (partner) stunting. This guide is based on OSU Spirit’s official 2026-27 […]

Washington State doesn’t hold a one-day cheer tryout. WSU Cheer “operates on a full recruitment model,” so the coaches evaluate athletes over time through clinics, combines, visits, video submissions and direct contact. This guide follows the official WSU Cheer Recruitment page on WSUCougars.com, as checked on September 29, 2026. The Program Part of WSU Spirit. […]

Utah’s cheer team is part of the Utah Spirit Team, which also includes the dance team. The Utes compete in the Big 12. The 2026-27 tryouts ran in two stages: a virtual preliminary round where you upload videos, then in-person finals on campus for those invited. Everything below comes from Utah’s official 2026-27 Cheer Team […]

CU Boulder picks most of its cheerleaders through a video recruitment process, not a one-day tryout. For the 2027-28 team, high school athletes in the class of 2027 register and submit skill videos by December 7, 2026 (11:59 p.m.), and CU recommends attending its Recruitment Clinic on October 18, 2026. This guide follows CU Athletics’ […]

Cal Cheerleading is one of UC Berkeley’s spirit groups, alongside the Cal Dance Team, the Mic Men, the Bearettes, the UC Rally Committee and Oski. As of September 30, 2026, Cal hasn’t posted audition information for the next season: the Cal Spirit site’s Audition Info page says “coming soon.” The most recent audition page Cal […]

Stanford has a cheer team with its own head coach, but it publishes very little about tryouts. GoStanford.com, the official athletics site, has no cheerleading page, tryout packet or roster. This guide sets out what Stanford’s official pages confirm and who to contact for the rest. As of September 29, 2026, no tryout dates were […]