Tryouts for the 2026-2027 Season Have Concluded
If you moved here or transferred during Summer 2026 and are interested in cheering, please email the coaching staff.
Tryout Information for the 2026-2027 School Year
The County Cheer Coaches are very excited to kick off another great season at Douglas County High School and we hope you will join us along that journey!
We will be fielding a Varsity team and a Junior Varsity team to fulfill our program’s ranks, and if the numbers allow, a C-Team too. Per CHSAA rule, the Varsity squad cannot hold more than 28 team members. Coaches will look to put around 20-24 on the Varsity team.
County Cheer Tryout Information Packet:
Tryout Week: April 13-17
Questions about tryouts? Email us: douglascountycheer@gmail.com
Key Tryout Dates
Tryout Schedule
3/31 (Tuesday) – 8th Grade / Middle School Clinic – 4:30-6:30pm – DCHS South Commons (South Building)
4/10 (Friday) – Tryout Registration Deadline! – FORM
4/13 (Monday) – Tryout Clinic – 4:30-6:30pm – DCHS South Commons (South Building)
4/13 – Pre-Tryout Information Meeting (parents & athletes welcome) – 6:30pm – DCHS South Commons (South Building) – right after the clinic!
4/14 (Tuesday) – Tryout Clinic – 4:30-6:30pm – DCHS South Commons (South Building)
4/15 (Wednesday) – Open Gym and Mock Tryouts – 5:30-7pm – DCHS South Commons (South Building)
4/16 (Thursday) – Tryout Interviews – starting at 4:30pm – DCHS Cheer Room (South Building) – individual time scheduling TBD after registration deadline
4/17 (Friday) – Tryouts – 4:30-7:30pm – DCHS South Building Cafeteria (South Commons) – Results posted by 9:30pm
4/20 (Monday) – Mandatory Parent & Athlete Team Meeting – 6:30pm – DCHS South Commons
Positions must be accepted by 4/21/26.
Make sure you are registered for tryouts!
Fill out the tryout registration form by 4/10/26!
You also need to bring a copy of your current physical and a $50 tryout fee (cash or check) to the tryout clinics or open gyms
Register
NOTE: this registration form is different and separate from the team interest form that you may filled out previously.
Pay the Tryout Fee Online (non refundable)
Tryout Process
What to Wear:
White or Black or Grey Shorts with a Purple or White T-Shirt (Plain or general DC/Huskies shirt – can not be DC Cheer related).
No jewelry, please. Hair should be up and back out of each candidate’s face. No mask required.
Tryout Process Explained:
Candidates will tryout in groups of 3-4 for the coaches.
Tryout Day-
Fight Song Performance
Candidates will be judged on their voice, confidence, motions, and spirit/enthusiasm.
Sideline/Chant
Candidates will be judged on their voice, confidence, motions, and spirit/enthusiasm.
Jumps
Showcase your best jump or jump(s) to tumble (ex: toe touch tuck).
Standing Tumbling
Back Handspring (BHS) or Back Tuck.
A back tuck will be worth more on the scoresheet
Each skill will need to be executed 3 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.
Stunting
Demonstration of a stunt or small sequence.
Examples:
Straight up liberty with a cradle.
Or: Full up extension, power press to arabesque, full down.
If you are concerned your sequence is too long, please speak to the coaches.
If you are a versatile stunter and can do multiple roles, please tryout with the skill and position that you think best exemplifies what you can bring to the team from a stunting perspective.
Candidates should know who they are stunting with before Part 2 of tryouts begins. Use the practices/clinics/open gyms in advance to plan ahead.
Scenario: If I am basing another candidate’s stunt for their tryout, I should be ready to go into their tryout so they can be judged properly and the tryout can continue to run smoothly. Participating in their tryout can affect my own tryout score if I choose to count that stunt as my tryout stunt. Alternatively, I choose to stunt to help someone else’s tryout, then when it is my turn to do my tryout stunt I do a differing skill or with a different group to be judged on.
Tryout Material
In addition to performing the sideline and the fight song, tryout candidates will be expected to showcase their other cheerleading skills (jumps, tumbling, stunting).
Tryout Sideline on YouTube
Fight Song on YouTube
Fight Song Lyrics:
Go you Huskies fight the enemy,
Make them kneel before our varsity.
We’re behind you with our battle cry,
Indestructible a do or die;
For D.C. High we’ve got the Huskie pride
We are brave and we are might’.
Fight! Fight! For D.C. High!
We are the Purple and White.