Late Tryouts

Newly Enrolled Students or Future Students

• If a student enrolls at Marcus High School after the cheerleading tryout has been completed, the coaches may hold a private tryout for team placement upon school enrollment approval and application submission. This tryout must be approved by the administration. All late tryouts must be requested prior to summer camp. If the late tryout request occurs after camp, it will be up to the head coach and administration if the tryout will be allowed. In order to be placed on a team, the cheerleading prospect must fall within the AVERAGE scoring range of the current team members. The head coach can determine if a late tryout is eligible for Varsity level, Junior Varsity level, or 9th grade level, per UIL policy.

To be eligible for a late tryout the following must apply:

1. You were not enrolled at Marcus during the March traditional tryout.

2. You are approved by LISD as a transfer or a new student for the year they will be trying out for. 

3. You are in PASSING UIL Standing, and did not leave your previous program (if applicable) in poor disciplinary standing. 

Late Tryout process

1. You will need to email wilkinsj@lisd.net to get a date and time set. Plus approval for tryout.

2. Once a date and time is set, the material link on the site will provide your child with the Cheer, Dance and fight song they will need to perform individually. 

3. The day of, candidates will:

Wear a white shirt, with solid black short

Athletic shoes

Hair up or tied back with a red-black or white ribbon or bow 

• Perform a toe touch, and 2 other immediately connected jumps (ex: Hurdler-toe touch or Pike-herkie) Any two. 

• Perform a running tumbling pass and a standing tumbling pass. 

• Perform the cheer

• Perform the dance

• Perform the fight song

We will bring in people around the candidates age group to stunt with. They will need to list what position in stunting they would like to do in the tryout application. 

We will given the candidate enough time to work with the group to determine what stunts they wish to show. 

SCORING

Please see our 100 point rubric scoring system on this website. This system is very transparent and easy to follow. 

They will be judged on this score sheet by at least 2 coaches. Both coaches will determine the score for each category together. 

To make varsity, you must be 10-12 grade and score the AVERAGE score from traditional tryouts or ABOVE. If you do not make this minimum, and are NOT a senior, you will be considered for the JV team with the JV guidelines. 

To make JV you must score ABOVE the lowest score that made the team in traditional march tryouts. 

To make Freshman team, you must be an incoming 9th grade and score ABOVE the lowest score that made the team in traditional march tryouts. 

2025- 2026 Minimum scores to make a team:

Varsity-  70.527 or above 

JV- 52.27 or above 

Freshman- 51.76 or above 

Results will be emailed to candidate immediately after tabulation the day of the tryout completion. 

If you make a team, You will need to pay HALF the following immediately:

(Shoes are the only thing that you would be able to take off if you already have them)

The second half would be due 1 month after the first payment.