Our goal is to select the best athletes who meet our athletic standards, who are coachable and can work well in a team environment and represent our program in a positive manner. It is crucial for athletes to attend every day of tryouts to be properly evaluated. Tryouts include three days of learning material as well as formal evaluations of each skill set. Athletes will be evaluated on their Genuine Spirit, fight song, tryout cheer, jumps, tumbling and stunting.

We MUST have the KHSAA Physical Form in order to participate in tryouts, NO EXCEPTIONS! No money is required to tryout! Please bring all paperwork with you to tryouts.

Link to South Oldham Athletics Page: https://sohsdragons.com/main/filesLinks/

What to Bring to Tryouts:

• KHSAA Physical Form- Good for 30 calendar days after expiration (SOHS Website)

• Please make sure your physical is current. If it is set to expire, it’s best that you get a new one.

• Permission to Participate Form- New form is not available yet (SOHS Website) Use 2021-2022 until new one is uploaded)

Tryout Attire:

Navy Shorts or Navy Spandex with a White T-Shirt

• Plain or South High School shirt (No SOHS Cheer gear)

No jewelry, please. Hair should be up and back out of each candidate's face.

The Tryout Process:

*Candidates will tryout in groups of 3 for the Judges.

Tryout Day-Part I-

1. Fight Song Performance

2. Candidates will be judged on their voice, confidence, motions, and Genuine Spirit/enthusiasm.

3. Sideline/Chant

4. Candidates will be judged on their voice, confidence, motions, and spirit/enthusiasm.

5. Jumps

   • Showcase your best jump or jump to tumble (ex: toe touch tuck).

Part 2-

• Standing Tumbling

  • Back Handspring (BHS), Back Tuck, Toe Touch Back Tuck, BHS to Full

    • Harder skill will be worth more on the scoresheet

    • Each skill will need to be executed 2 times.

• Running Tumbling

  • Demonstrate your best tumbling pass.

  • Additional optional skill: demonstrate a different or specialty pass.

    • Example:

      • Pass #1: Punch front, round off, bhs to full.

      • Pass #2: Round off, bhs, whip, whip, bhs, full.

Part 3-

• Stunting

  • Demonstration of stunt or small sequences done prior to the actual tryout day.