- Aug 6, 2014
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i was just wondering as a coach or a parent, how long do you thing tryouts should be held to get a decent look at girls?
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Same.At my high school it was three days of clinics and then one day of actual tryouts in front of the judges.
We had that too! And then a follow up meeting about a week after tryoutsSame.
Parent meeting was held prior to clinics.
Being a coach at a small school our process seems really long. I have a parent meeting to inform them and the cheerleader candidates not only of the tryout process but also what is expected of them if they should make the squad. The following week we have two clinics, the next week 2 more clinics, with tryouts held that Saturday. I would love to do it all in one week but I have to work around softball and other end of the year events. I've held tryouts as early as March and as late as May, doesn't seem to matter much, it's still spread out over two weeks.
As far as announcing goes, my first year the squad had already been picked. Second year, I announced the names in front of all the girls, leaving 3 girls disappointed (so hard because I'm not a mean person but I sure felt like one). Third year I call the candidates in one by one, those who made it went up on the stage and waited to see who else would join their team and those who didn't left the building (I liked this because it's so important and exciting for the girls to get to celebrate w/o guilt with their new team mates). This year I had 6 tryout, 6 made it (They still had to get 70% of the score or I had to cut them according to the school) so I gave them all an envelope as a group with a card that said congratulations (they all seemed so nervous to open those envelopes).
Personally, in such a small school as the one I coach at I think tryouts need to be done away with. We don't have junior high cheerleading and as you can see we suffer from a total lack of participation. And it's not just cheerleading, it's a lot of sports, we barely can field jr. high baseball, jr. high basketball was cut so was cheerleading, and we have to co-op for football, girls basketball, and track. I would rather just take everyone interested, work with them over the summer, and then a month before basketball starts if I have a considerable number I can split them into JV and Varsity. I feel like in my situation more girls would be interested as that threat of rejection keeps a lot away.