- Find out if there is any interest in your neighbourhood by putting up posters or handing out fliers.
- Name your team and decide on team colours and team constitution which will govern practice times, eligibility, insurance, monthly fees and discipline
- Find a practice venue that will allow you to do stunts and tumbling practice, as well as a regulation-size floor mat to practice competition routines.
- Hold tryouts. Hand out fliers and put up posters to let people know about the tryouts. Give out information on number of members needed, age limit, monthly fees, tryout times etc. also have a dance routine prepared so that you can check the skill level. Make sure you get important signatures such as medical releases, practice rules, financial responsibility, constitution and contact information. You can hold a tryout clinic beforehand. Some teams charge a tryout fee. Make sure you have at least three judges.
- Keep organized once you have a squad chosen. Gather the all the permission slips, contact information, medical releases etc. keep all your information in a file and make sure to have your attendance records up to date.
- Create a routine for your team. Start practices and begin training hard for the upcoming season. Give the squad a practice and performance schedule and decide on the organization of a captain and co-captain.
- Join a cheerleading association. Depending on where you are there are different provincial associations to choose from. They are the ones who decide on competition dates and train coaches.
- Order all your uniforms and equipment from a reputable company. Your squad will need duffel bags, shell tops, skirts, bloomers, poms, cheer shoes, socks, and at least one set of practice shorts and a team shirt. Optional items include hair bows and team sweat suits.
- Organise fundraisers to help raise money for transport, uniforms and equipment as the monthly fees will not be able to cover for everything. Also look for donations from the community and sponsors.
And then you are off on your way to becoming
a national competitor
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