Next, compile a quick, 2-minute, highlight video for our coaches to review and include the following:

• Your 2 most elite stunting skills
• Your most elite running tumbling pass
• Your most elite standing tumbling pass
• Any fight song, cheer, or dance for motion technique review
• Include a 30-second bio about yourself – show us your personality!

Then, we’ll need your Penn State Acceptance letter. The earlier you apply, the better! Applications open as soon as August 1. The next steps for recruitment cannot happen until we have an acceptance letter emailed to the coaching staff at cheerleadering@psu.edu and djg6327@psu.edu.

Tryouts happen every spring and are typically in the first weeks of April. Tryouts are invitation only and these invitations will be sent out between late January and early February. To receive an invitation, potential candidates must fulfil the following requirements:

• Have their Recruitment Form and Acceptance Letter completed/sent in
• Minimum Standard Tumbling: standing tuck
  • Preferred: ending in a full
• Minimum Running Tumbling: running tuck
  • Preferred: ending in a full
• Basic stunting knowledge of both twisting skills and flipping inversions

Individuals can, and will, be invited to the team and signed before we announce tryouts for the next season. Each year we invite 2-5 key individuals to join our program before tryouts take place. Those individuals must exceed beyond our standard requirements (listed above). Those who are invited to sign for our program are still strongly encouraged to attend tryouts.