TRYOUTS

Pre-tryout training

Pre-Tryout Clinics

Description: These clinics are designed to strengthen your knowledge of stunts, jumps and tumbling terminology, skills, and give you tools to work on strength, stamina and technique to prepare for tryouts. You will learn many developmental skills you can practice at home to continue preparing for tryouts, and stunt groups may work together during this time to refine skills for tryouts. Coaches will lead part of these sessions and part of these sessions will be dedicated to stations where athletes can work with equipment and each other on their jumps, tumbling and stunts with coaches present for spotting. 

Location: Timnath Middle-High School

How to enroll: 

Fill out this waiver and turn it into Sherri Pope or Emily Dunn in Athletics OR email it to nrodriguez@psdschools.org prior to the first clinic you attend. You only need to complete this form once and it covers all pre-tryout clinics. Then, sign up for any clinics you plan to attend with the forms below.

Dates + Time

Thursday, February 19th 4:30-6:30pm in the TMHS Commons - SIGN UP HERE
*Current cheer team members will be automatically signed up

Tuesday, March 10th 4:30-6:30pm in the TMHS Commons - SIGN UP HERE
*Returning athletes must sign up to attend

Monday, March 30th 4:30-6:30pm in the TMHS Commons - SIGN UP HERE
*Returning athletes must sign up to attend

Location

The TMHS commons. Athletes will ether through the front doors of the school if they are not already in school from their day time classes.

There are available locker rooms for athletes to change and get ready for school after the clinics. They may also use bathrooms.

Official Pre-Tryout Clinics

These clinics are designed to teach you skills and material to prepare you for tryouts. You will learn cheerleading motions, the Timnath High School fight song sideline dance, jumps, tumbling drills, stunts, and get an opportunity to try skills you have mastered on cheer floor to prepare for your tryouts. You will learn all about the program and we will run these similar to a practice, with some strength, conditioning and team building. We encourage anyone interested in high school cheerleading at Timnath to attend these, regardless of your skill level! We will group athletes together based on skill to work on stunts and tumbling. 

No pre-tryout events are required. Attend one or all of these, but the more you attend the more prepared you will be for tryouts! Coaches are looking for hardworking, dedicated athletes. If you want to attend but have a conflict and would like to know what you missed, you can also message coach Nikki in Band (link below).

Cost for all pre-tryout events: FREE! 

Wear: Tennis shoes or cheer shoes, athletic shorts and a t shirt or tank top, and hair up with no jewelry or nails over fingertips for safety. Also please wear spandex shorts / compression shorts / nike pro shorts under athletic shorts due to jumping and stunting.

Tumbling Development

• Location: Timberline Gymnastics Fort Collins

• How to enroll: Email frontdesk@timberlinegym.com or call 970-226-0306 to enroll

• Dates: Wednesdays 7:30-9pm February 4th - April 8th

  • $140/month for Feb, March

  • $70 for April (2 sessions only)

• This class is exclusively offered to anyone interested in trying out for cheerleading at Timnath High School or forTimnath cheerleading seniors maintaining their skills for college tryouts.

Mandatory Cheer Tryout Parent + Athlete Meeting

• Location: TMHS Summit Room

• Date + Time: Tuesday April 7th, 6:30pm

• This is mandatory for athletes and one parent / guardian who want to tryout for the cheerleading program.

Tryouts

• Location: Timnath Middle-High School

• How to enroll: You must pay the district athletic fee to obtain your athletic gold card. A copy of a current physical is required to obtain the gold card along with the fee payment to the district and some paperwork. This must be done ahead of tryouts and the gold card is turned in the day before tryouts begins to the front office to Coach Nikki Rodriguez's mail box. We will explain this in great detail at our parent meeting on April 7th and there will be a checklist for you in our tryout information packet by March 1st.

• Dates: Monday, April 13th-Wednesday April 15th from 5:30-8pm. 

  • Multi-sport athletes or athletes committed to other cheer / athletic programs with conflicts - please email coach Nikki for special scheduling! We want you to tryout! nrodriguez@psdschools.org

Important Summer Dates for the 2026-2027 Season

• First tumbling class JV + Varsity: April 22nd

• Proven Brand Stunt Clinic, Jr. Cubs Clinic and other critical events will be held June 1st-21st. These are critical dates for development for skills for both teams.

• First official practice Varsity: We begin practice in May, schedule to be determined. 8th graders cannot join practice until mid-month.

• Varsity Choreography: July 30-31st

• Varsity Summer Camp: June 19-22nd

• JV Summer Camp: To be determined

• Cheer Summer Break - Varsity: June 27th-July 12th (no organized practices for the Varsity team during this time, tumbling and Pursuit performance training will still be offered)

• Cheer Summer Break - JV: June 27th-July 12th  (no organized practices for the Junior Varsity team during this time)

Questions?

Email Head Coach Nikki Rodriguez - nrodriguez@psdschools.org

Stay Informed!

Join our tryout Band for updates, changes, and information as tryouts approaches. This Band app group Is for parents / guardians of athletes trying out and for athletes.

Tryout Registration

Step one for registering for tryouts is filling out the form below. This form does not commit you to trying out but it does notify us to include you in tryout communication and to follow up with you about paperwork. You can always be asked to be removed from this list if you choose not to tryout after attending pre-tryout events! 

We can't wait to see you soon!