Cheerleading Tryouts

Fall 2017

Coaches:

8th Grade: Jordan Diegmueller

jordan.diegmueller@lakotaonline.com

7th Grade: Kayla Rodgers

rodgerkd@mail.uc.edu

When Does it Begin?• Week of May 8th – May 10th 3:30 – 5:00 PM at Ridge

• Cheer clinics: Monday – Wednesday

– Girls will learn a cheer, chant, dance, jumps, and

tumbling to be performed at tryouts

• Attendance is MANDATORY

• Girls are to wear shorts, t-shirt, socks, shoes, have

their hair pulled back, and no jewelry

• Squads will be posted on the website after 3:00 on

Friday afternoon.

Paperwork

• In order to participate in tryouts, you must:

1. Register your child on Final

Forms: https://lakota.finalforms.com/

2. Turn in a complete Physical Form

to the Ridge office.

• Without doing these two things, your daughter

may NOT participate clinics.

Behavior/Qualities of a Ridge

Cheerleader

• Cheerleaders are expected to be good

ambassadors for Ridge Junior School

• We feel strongly that cheerleaders should

represent the school in a positive manner both

academically and socially.

• Failure to do so will result in being

benched or dismissed from the squad

Time Commitment

• Attendance is mandatory

– practices AND games

• If there is a situation where your daughter

must be absent, we need a note or email

in advance although she may still have to

sit for a quarter or more

• Please schedule doctor appointments

around cheer practice if possible

Summer Practices

• Mandatory (vacations will be excused)

• Beginning May 31st through July 28th

practices will be on Wednesdays from

4:30-6:30 P.M.

• Starting July 31st practices will be twice a

week from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM.

Season Practices

• Practices will be twice a week until the game

season begins on Mondays and Wednesdays.

• Practices will be from 2:15 – 3:45, but may end

earlier as the season continues.

• If needed, we will add more practices before the

games begins.

• Girls need to practice at home using the

YouTube links we provide them. If they are not

up to par, they may sit at the games until

chants are memorized.

Grades/Eligibility

• Low grades are not tolerated

• Eligibility:

– Every week the athletic department will run the eligibility for the week.

– Per Lakota, students have to be passing FIVE classes in order to cheer that week.

– Coaches are able to bench girls with one F at their discretion.

Games• Games are Wednesdays

– (9/7 Oak Hills game is an exception)

• 7th grade: 4:30

• 8th grade: 5:45ish

• Home games are played here at Ridge

• Girls will go home after school for home

games and return for the games

• For away games, girls will stay after

school and ride a bus to the games but

WILL NOT have transportation back.

Optional Tumbling

• Last year the girls had the opportunity to

tumble at Perfection once a week for a

discounted group rate and we plan to do

this again.

• More details to come on this.

Fees/Cost

• Fees to participate are $150.

• You can pay online on EZ Pay or checks/cash/money orders should be made out to Lakota Ridge Junior School and on the memo line have cheerleading

• Make sure you write your DAUGHTER’S last name on it if your last name is different from the name on the check.

• Your daughter will NOT receive a uniform until fees are paid.

Fees/Cost• Extra costs:

• These are ESTIMATES!!

– Cheer shoes, body suit, poms, and spankies

bought through a vendor: $100

• These need to be paid when we place the order

this summer. The order will not ship until ALL girls

have paid.

– Ribbon: $15

– Tumbling: $90 (optional)

Questions?

• Did we miss anything? (probably, yes!)

• We look forward to a GREAT football

season!

• Good Luck!