Tryouts for the 2008-2009 KSU cheerleading squad will be held Sunday, May 4th at Bramlage Coliseum. This is a one day tryout consisting of tumbling, stunting, and a fight song (learned that day). The tryout is open to anyone who would like to attend.

Registration will start at 9 a.m. with warm-up and stretching on your own. Tryouts will start at 10:00 a.m. with the tumbling and fight song portion. We will break for lunch at 1:00 p.m. and resume with stunts at 2:30 p.m.

A video tryout may be submitted and will be accepted no later then Saturday, May 10th. Videos should be sent to:

K-State Spirit
Attn: Hollian Montgomery
17 Ahearn Fieldhouse
Manhattan, KS 66506

The fee for tryouts is paid when you submit your video or during registration of the live tryout. The tryout fee is as follows:

• No college cheer experience: $20
• One year college cheer experience: $15
• Two years college cheer experience: $10
• Three or more years college cheer experience: $0

Open Gym Dates

• April 22nd 7-9 - Indoor Football Facility
• Friday May 2nd 6-9 - Bramlage
• Saturday May 3rd 3-5 - Bramlage

Attire for tryouts
(Current K-State cheerleaders are not allowed to wear KSU cheerleading clothing)

Your video tryout should include:

• An intro with your name, age, major of interest, and something fun or interesting about you.
• Do as many of the skills from the suggested skills list
• Any other skills you would like to include
• A fight song
  
• An 8 count dance
  
• Jumps: Double toe touch and 2 jumps of your choice
  
• Showcase your skills
  

Females: (live and video tryouts)

• Sports bra or sport tank (acceptable colors: Purple, Black, White, or Gray)
• Shorts: spandex or soffee (acceptable colors: Purple, Black, White, or Gray)
• Game Day ready:
  • White cheer shoes
  • White low cut socks
  • White 2 ¼ “ gross grain Bow
  • Hair ½ up with big curls
  • Game ready make-up (i.e. red lipstick, etc.)
• No jewelry including tongue rings will be ALLOWED.
• No other university logos may be visible.

Males: (live and video tryouts)

• Shirts (acceptable colors: Purple, White, Black, and Gray; must be tucked in)
• Shorts (acceptable colors; Purple, White, Black, and Gray)
• White shoes
• White socks
• No jewelry will be ALLOWED
• Clean shaven

Skills we are looking for:

Female standing tumbling: (Not limited to)

• Standing back-handspring
• Standing back tuck (or full)
• Back-handspring tuck (layout, or full)
• 2 back-handsprings to a tuck (layout or full)
• Toe back tuck
• Double toe back tuck
• Pike back tuck
• Specialty passes (i.e. bhs whip through to full, etc)

Female running tumbling: (Not limited to)

• Roundoff back tuck (layout, or full)
• Round off back-handspring tuck (layout, or full)
• Specialty passes (i.e. Arabian through, whip through, kick fulls, etc)

Female stunting: (Not limited to)
Bases:

• Ground-up variations (scale, arabesque, stretch, scorpion, lib, overstretch/front stretch, needles)
• Toss stunts
• Willingness to try all positions (i.e. back, side, and main)
• Full ups
• Rewinds

Partners:

• Ground-up variations (see above)
• Toss stuns (on quads, trios, or co-ed)
• Double downs (from multiple variations)
• Full ups
• Rewinds

We are not only looking for fully mastered skills but will judge based on effort and potential, and technique.

Male tumbling
* We are looking for a committed group of males to recapture the strong stunting tradition of Kansas State Cheer. You may tryout with limited or not stunting or tumbling experience and will be judged based on potential and improvement.

Male tumbling: (Not limited to)

• Back tuck (layout or full)
• Back-handspring tuck (layout or full)
• Round off tuck (layout or full)
• Round off back-handspring tuck (layout or full)
• Specialty passes
• Toe back tuck

Male Stunting: (Not limited to)

• Assisted, unassisted, and quad stunting will be judged. We are also looking for good technique!
  • Hands stunts
  • Toss stunts
  • Double downs

We are not only looking for fully mastered skills but will judge based on effort and potential, and technique.

Judging Criteria (breakdown of scores)

Each person will be scored on a 100 point scale by each judge (with 0 being the lowest and 100 being the highest). The scores from all judges will be averaged and the team will be selected based on the natural break in scores.

Point Scale:

• Tumbling – 20 pts
• Stunting – 20 pts
• Fight song – 20 pts
• Potential – 20 pts
• Overall impression – 20 pts
  

Due to the ongoing interviews for a new head coach, the tryout format has changed. The tryouts will be video taped. Once a new coach is hired they will look at the tryout videos along with the score sheets and comments and make a final decision. Newly selected cheerleaders will be notified as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Questions: Please contact Hollian Montgomery at hollianjane730@hotmail.com or (785) 313-7976.