- Jul 29, 2010
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In the past there was just one tryout in June (some schools even earlier in the May) for JV and Varsity. Some schools practiced all through the summer, others like ours followed the fall sports schedule and started 2 weeks before school began.
Now that cheer is a sport in NYS a second set of tryouts had to be held in November for the winter sport season. Two girls were added to varsity (one being my cp) and one to JV. I believe one girl who also does all star did not come back to varsity. Not sure if two tryouts are going to be held every season now but they might be.
In high school we had the first round of tryouts for Jv/Varsity (and freshmen if there was a big enough divide/interest) at the end of April. Then if you made it through that, there was a month of practices used to evaluate stunting, tumbling consistency, attitude, and who meshed well together. At the end of the month it was divided into Jv and Varsity, I don't believe anybody was ever cut after the second round but it was possible. Then there were summer practices for camp and then the regionals competition in August (it's now in July) and then there was a break until school started. Then there was a second tryout for JV only, you couldn't tryout for Varsity in the fall as Varsity was year round even if you weren't on the mat for regionals/state. The process seemed to work really well (for us anyway).
Eta: I forgot that they do UCA regionals and Nationals now as well too.
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