Valley Cheer became Valley All Star in July of 2023 when we held tryouts and chose our teams for the 2023-24 season. They had a spectacular year competing in five competitions and taking first place in every category as well as Grand Champions at all five competitions they attended.
We will host our Season 2 tryouts on May 30, 2024 for our Youth and Junior Teams. We will have evaluations on May 31st for our Mini Team. We look for well rounded athletes that have a competitive spirit, a drive to work hard and athletes you absolutely love the sport of cheerleading. While experience is not required, it does help in making a team.
In 2024 we will be having three teams.
Valley Legends- This is our exhibition mini team. This is open to ages 5-7 and they must have taken cheer classes in fundamentals to qualify for evaluation to be put on the team. Evaluations will be held in June of 2024. This team will perform a 2 and a half minute routine in exhibition style. They will not compete. They will only exhibition. This will help to ready athletes to move on to the youth team.
Valley Legacy- This is our youth age team. Youth ages range from 7-12 years of age. We strive to have our youth team be at a level 2 to 3 based on what stunts and tumbling our team has. They will be expected to learn and perform both a 2 and a half minute show routine and a one minute pom routine. While tumbling is currently not required to be on youth team, it is recommended they begin to learn to tumble to increase their chances of making harder teams as they move up in age.
Valley Icons- This is our Junior team. Junior ages range from 9-17. While we prefer this team range from ages 12-17 we will consider putting ages 9-11 on this team if they are the total package of what we look for in a cheerleader. They will be expected to learn and perform both a 2 and a half minute show routine and a one minute pom routine. We strive to have our Junior team be a level 2 to a level 3 team based on what stunts and tumbling our team has. While tumbling is currently not required to be on Junior team, it is recommended they be taking tumbling to help increase their chances of making harder teams as they move up in age.
Tryouts:
Tryouts will be held at Valley Gym on May 30th for youth and junior. The gym will open at 3:00pm and tryouts will begin at 4:30pm. Athletes may utilize the time before tryouts to go over material, stretch, warm up tumbling, etc.
Evaluations for Mini Team will be held at Valley Cheer on May 31st. The gym will open at 4pm and evaluations will begin at 5pm. We expect all evaluations to be completed by 6pm. If you are 7 and trying out for youth team and want to be considered for mini if you do not place on youth, you do NOT need to attend these evaluations. We will use your tryouts for youth in place of this.
Athletes will try out in front of a panel of no less than three judges. (Youth and Jr) All judges have cheerleading background and or/coaching background. Minis will be working with coaches from Valley Cheer.
To be eligible to tryout all parents must do the following:
#1- Attend a mandatory parent meeting. If you have missed this meeting, please contact Tami at ValleycheerID@gmail.com to set up an individual meeting by no later than May 5th.
#2- Register to tryout by going to : https://forms.gle/zCtmt5bkHtuW9vWdA
Once your child is registered for a tryout time slot, we will be contacting you to let you know that time frame.
We HIGHLY suggest your child attends some open gyms to begin working their skills with others that may be on their teams should they make placement. It is also a good chance for us to see your athlete in action-especially if they are not currently taking classes with us.
WHAT TO WEAR TO TRYOUTS:
ALL athletes must come to tryouts in all black. (shorts, tank or tee) and athletic shoes/cheer shoes.
ALL athletes must have their hair in a slicked back high pony tail.
NO athletes can have jewelry on and will lose points if they do.
Makeup is allowed however we ask you keep it natural – spirit makeup is allowed. (spirit dots on face, glitter spray, etc)
TEAM PLACEMENT AND RESULTS:
On June 1st by noon you will also receive an email letting you know if you placed on a team. (Youth and Jr.) Our Mini Teams will be notified no later than June 2nd at noon.
Please note- If you are not placed on a team this year we will give you indication of why and what you should work on to be considered next year.
If you placed on a team we will only tell you your placement and not why you made one team or another.
Should you place on Youth or Junior, there is a mandatory fitting that will take place at 3pm on June 2nd at the gym. You will be fitted for your uniform, camp/practice wear and shoes by our Rebel representative. Minis will get their own time slot – yet to be scheduled. We will also do our team signing that day and have a small celebration!
Financial Commitments:
Monthly tuition for competitive team (Youth and Jr) is $150 a month. Mini exhibition is $75 per month. There are also other commitments such as uniform, NCA camp, camp/practice wear, back pack, warmups, bow, etc. All costs were gone over in our parent meeting. If you missed this meeting please reach out to a coach today! It is required to be able to try out for team. (Mini team has less financial requirements)
