Carroll University Cheer
Teams: coed team that cheers for football and basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts in September for football and in November for basketball
Required skills: females perform a toe touch and two jumps of choice, as well as a cheer and dance; males perform a toe touch and one jump of choice and basic cheer motions. All athletes perform basic stunting skills at tryouts. Tumbling is welcome, but not required.
Approximate program costs: personal items such as shoes, briefs, and body liner
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: practice 4 times a week
Compete: yes
Contact information: Kristen Hoff at kkhoff@carrollu.edu, Ariel Warshawsky at awarshaw@carollu.edu, or Kayla Koll at kkoll@carollu.edu
Website: http://athletics.cc.edu/intramuralrec/cheer.asp
Concordia University
Marquette University
No information available at this time…
Rockford College
Teams: White Team: all-girl team that cheers for football and basketball, Purple Teams: coed team & all-girl competition team
Tryouts: live tryouts in April or May, video submissions are accepted for out of state students
Required skills: White Team: perform all the jumps they know, perform fight song, chants and dances; Purple team: demonstrate strong jumps, motions, and crowd leading ability, perform fight song, chants and dances; a minimum of an extension pop cradle, tumbling a plus, but not required
Approximate program costs: personal items, $150-$200 the first year, $20-$25 subsequent years; uniforms provided by school; fundraisers are available to offset personal costs
Scholarships: none offered at this time; spirit program members are eligible for co-curricular based scholarships the college offers.
Time commitment: cheerleaders and stuntmen are expected to attend all men's and women's basketball games and football games, post-season tournament games, team workouts, team fundraising events, and any other scheduled university or community events. White Team: season runs from end of August to mid March, with practices 1 time a week, with some summer practices. Purple Team: season runs from May to April, with practices 2-3 times plus time in the weight room
Compete: Purple Team: regionally and nationally in collegiate & all-star divisions
Contact information: Juliana Barker 815-226-4085 or jubarker@rockford.edu
Web site: www.rockford.edu
St. Norbert’s College
Teams: all-girl team that cheers for football and basketball, as well as home Packer games
Tryouts: live tryouts in April
Required skills: extended stunts, toe touches, perform a cheer and dance and demonstrate tumbling skills (optional).
Approximate program costs: about $100 per year for personal items
Scholarships: none offered
Time commitment: season runs from August until March with practices twice a week
Compete: do not compete
Contact information: Cheryl Reed at cheryl.reed@anc.edu
Web site: www.snc.edu/athletics
University of Minnesota
Teams: coed team, all-girl team, basketball cheer team and hockey cheer team
Tryouts: live tryouts in April
Required skills for coed team: perform fight song, chants and dances; standing back-handspring or back tuck, and a running tumbling pass with three consecutive skills; partner stunts: walk in skill, a toss skill, and an elite skill of your choice
Approximate program costs: tryout and participation fee; all other expenses covered by the University
Scholarships: $200/semester book scholarship to all members, 3rd and 4th year members receive $400-$600/semster
Time commitment: season runs from end of August to mid March, with practices 3 times a week, with some summer practices
Compete: coed and all-girl teams compete at UCA and UPA nationals
Contact information: Beth Frees (coed coach) at efrees@umn.edu or Merilee Wait (all-girl coach) waitx009@umn.edu
Web site: www.gophersports.com follow spirit squads link
College prep camps/clinics: upcoming camps and clinics are listed in biweekly newsletter (register on UMN’s website); September 20th and 21st is the “Weekend with the U of M Cheerleaders”…this includes tickets to a home football game, with lower level seating in front of the spirit squads, followed by a college prep clinic on Sunday
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Teams: co-ed sideline team that cheers for football and basketball, and a competition team
Tryouts: April 24 and additional live fall tryout opportunities also available
Required skills: females perform a toe touch, dance and cheer; males perform a pike jump; all athletes exhibit their stunting and tumbling skills during tryouts, but there are no specific requirements
Approximate program costs: personal items and competition fees, fundraising is available
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: season runs from September through March, with practices twice a week.
Compete: yes
Contact information: Coach Amy LaVelle at goamy123@aol.com
Web site: www.uwec.edu/cheer
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Teams: coed team that cheers for basketball as well as home Packer games
Tryouts: live tryouts in April
Required skills: females perform cheers, dances, partner stunts, a toe touch and another jump of their choice, no specific tumbling requirements; males work exclusively on stunting
Approximate program costs: personal items
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: season runs from June until March, with practice two times a week
Compete: do not compete
Contact information: Ann Rodrian at ann.rodrian@sbcglobal.net
Web site: http://uwgbathletics.cstv.com/sports/c-off/cheer.html
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Teams: coed team that cheers for football and basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts in April, with an additional live tryout in the fall to fill the remaining positions
Required skills: all must perform a solid round-off and base at least one stunt; females perform a toe touch, extension cradle and at least 2 additional stunt sequences; males perform a toss chair or toss hands with pop down
Approximate program costs: personal items, $150-$200 the first year, $20-$25 subsequent years; fundraisers are available
Scholarships: none
Time commitment: practice 3-4 times per week
Compete: yes
Contact information: Kelly Galvan at uwlcheer@yahoo.com
Web site: www.uwlax.edu/athletics/cheerleading
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teams: the Red Squad cheers for football games and men’s basketball games; the White Squad cheers for the women’s basketball games.
Tryouts: live tryouts in April and September; high school candidates and transfer students must submit a tryout video by April 1st
Required skills: perform a fight song/dance; demonstrate standing and series tumbling; perform at least two co-ed partner stunts
Approximate program costs: minimal; most costs covered by athletic department
Scholarships: none
Time commitment: August through March, with 3 practices a week; Occasional summer PR events and practices
Compete: Nationals
Contact information: Josette Scheer at jrs@athletics.wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.uwbadgers.com/traditions/
cheer/uw_cheerleaders_91.html
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teams: coed team that cheers for basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts in April and in the fall
Required skills: demonstrate strong jumps, motions, and crowd leading ability; standing back-handspring and series tumbling preferred, but not required.
Time commitment: cheerleaders and stuntmen are expected to attend all men's and women's basketball games, post-season tournament games, team workouts, team fundraising events, and any other scheduled university or community events; practices are held 2-3 times a week
Contact information: Vicki Hastings at cgvlhastings@juno.com or Leigh Wallace Tabak at cheer4uwm@aol.com
Web site: www.uwmpanthers.cstv.com/school-bio/wiml-cheerleading.htm
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Teams: coed team that cheers for football and basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts in the spring and fall
Required skills: females: back-handspring and double toe touch; bases: assisted walk-in hands and quad lib, mid?s: base elevator, fly in full down from elevator and extension, flyers: toe touch basket (must have good body control), full down from elevator and extension; males: base toss hands, walk-in hands, double-based extension and lib.
Approximate program costs: personal items, competition fees, and travel costs
Scholarships: none
Time commitment: September through March, with 2-3 practices a week
Compete: 5-6 competitions per year plus nationals
Contact information: Ronald Hallwachs at hallwr35@uwosh.edu
Web site: www.leaguelineup.com/titanscns/
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
No information available at this time…
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Teams: coed team that cheers for football and basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts in the spring for current students and in the fall for new students, video submissions are accepted if there is a conflict
Required skills: perform 2-3 chants, a floor cheer, a toe touch, pike and optional jump; round-off is required, a back-handspring is preferred; all females are required to perform a short dance and tryout as a base and flyer ; males will tryout as a base
Approximate program costs: $100-$150 for personal items, fundraisers are available
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: practice 2-3 times a week, with additional conditioning sessions 2 times a week
Compete: only if squad chooses (cost covered by team)
Contact information: Jenifer Schmidgall at schmidgallj@uwstout.edu
Web site: in progress
College prep camps/clinics: over the Christmas break, private clinics are available
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Teams: coed team that cheers for football and basketball, an all-girl team that cheers for wrestling, women’s basketball and wheelchair basketball
Tryouts: live tryouts; football tryouts are in the spring, and again in the fall for freshmen, basketball tryouts are at the end of September
Required skills: females: toe touch and jump of choice; cheer and dance taugut at tryouts; base or fly in extension and lib, demonstrate a twisting cradle, co-ed toss hands or chair hands and a shoulder stand with two different male candidates; males: base toss hands, shoulder stand with two different female candidates.
Approximate program costs: personal items, fundraising is expected
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: cheer at all home games and away games in WI, practice 3-4 items a week
Compete: only if squad chooses (cost covered by team)
Contact information: Therese Kennedy at kennedyt@uww.edu
Web site: www.uww.edu/staffair/recsport/
Wisconsin Lutheran College
Teams: all-girl team that cheers for football
Tryouts: live tryouts in April or May, video submissions are accepted for out of state students
Required skills: perform all the jumps they know, a minimum of an extension pop cradle, tumbling a plus, but not required
Approximate program costs: personal items, normally a one time cost, fundraisers are available
Scholarships: none offered
Time commitment: season runs from August to November, with practices 2-3 times plus time in the weight room
Compete: do not compete
Contact information: Jody Brill at Jody.brill@wlc.edu
Web site: http://wlcsports.athleticsite.com, then go to “fan zone” then “cheerleading”
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Ripon College
Tryouts: 1st or 2nd Saturday after school begins (end of August)
Required skills: pirouettes; split, switch & open leaps; toe touches; kicks
Approximate costs: $40 (dance shoes/black dance pants)
Scholarships: none available
Time commitment: 7 hours of practice/week; all home football games; most home basketball games, competitions, team events, Springfest
Compete: 2-3 per year
Contact information: Coach Stephanie Hawkins at hawkinss@ripon.edu
Website: www.ripon.edu/athletics/dance
College prep camps/clinics: none at this time
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tryouts: live tryouts in May
Time commitment: perform at basketball, soccer and volleyball games
Compete: UDA Nationals, College Dance Team Championships
Contact information: Angela de Leon at addeleon5@gmail.com
Web site: www.danceteam.uwm.edu.
College prep camps/clinics: pre-tryout clinic offered at the end of April
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Tryouts: the second week after school starts in September
Required skills: fouetees, pirouettes, leaps, across the floor combinations, jazz and hip hop ability
Approximate program costs: $700
Scholarships: none offered
Time commitment: 9 hours of practice per week
Compete: 3 per year
Contact information: danceteam@uwec.edu
Web site: www.uwec.edu/danceteam
College prep camps/clinics: no college prep, do host clinics for other high schools/colleges
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Tryouts: early September
Required skills: basic turns, leaps, ability to learn quickly
Approximate program costs: $200-$500 per year, depending on fundraising efforts
Scholarships: none offered
Time commitment: 2-3 practices per week, approximately 40 halftimes, various community appearances
Compete: UPA Nationals, Xtreme Spirit
Contact information: see website (below) or UWGB Student Orgs
Web site: http://uwgbdanceteam.googlepages.com
College prep camps/clinics: none
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
No information available at this time…
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Tryouts: Second week after school starts in September
Required Skills: Toe touch, splits, leap, switch leap, side leap, double turn, triple turn, fouettes (spelling?)
Time Commitment: 3 2-hr practices per week, halftime at football games and girls and guys basketball games and competitions
Costs: $60 team fee plus extra expenses throughout the year
Scholarships: none offered
Compete: 2-3 times per year
Contact info: Stacy Parker at uwodanceteam@hotmail.com
Wisconsin Lutheran College
Tryouts: First week in October
Required skills: pirouettes, toe touches, flexibility
Time commitment: Sun, Tues, Thurs evening practices; all home men's & women's basketball games, excluding holidays
Approximate cost: $75 for shoes (two pairs), tights, & undergarments
Scholarships: none offered
Compete: International Competition, Mexico, approximate every 3 years
Contact Information: Heidi Zarder at Heidi.Zarder@wlc.edu
Website: www.wlc.edu, "fan zone", "power surge" OR http://wlcsports.athleticsite.com/page.asp?articleID=271
College Prep camps/clinics: Spring TBA and two weeks prior to auditions
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