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All practices and tryouts will be held at Solomon Court (Cabot Gym)

Tryouts for the Football, Hockey and Basketball Cheerleading Squads

Anyone who is a student at Northeastern University can join the cheerleading team. Whether you are enrolled as an undergraduate, graduate or University College student, you may participate in Northeastern Cheerleading. At Northeastern, cheerleading is new under the athletics department. Northeastern University does not offer scholarships for cheerleading, therefore the cheerleaders are allowed to participate for more than four years. High school seniors who have been accepted to Northeastern University and plan on attending in the fall are encouraged to tryout for the upcoming football cheerleading squad.

Football & Basketball Tryout Requirements

All candidates, including students who’ve made a team in the past, must tryout for a spot on a cheerleading team. You also must tryout for each team separately (Only captains of the cheerleading teams are exempt from trying out). We highly encourage high school seniors to tryout in the spring for the football squad because the next tryouts are not until October. The typical cheerleading squad is a total of 20 members, 10 girls and 10 guys (subject to change). This is the largest that competition teams are allowed to be. There are no junior varsity cheerleading squads at Northeastern. We encourage interested cheerleaders to visit N.U. and attend a practice to watch the team, try stunting and meet the current NU cheerleaders. There are no weight or height limits to tryout for any cheerleading squad at Northeastern.

Tryouts are judged upon the following categories:

An Entrance/Appearance
A Dance (for Girls) / Fight Song (for Guys)
1 Cheer
1 Chant
A single toe-touch jump
Standing Back tuck (no exceptions)
A round-off back handspring back tuck
2 required stunts: extension, liberty-heel stretch full down
2 Advanced tumbling passes (layout or better) or 2 advanced stunts (1 thats tossed and 1 that doubles down)

Most skills will be taught through the first week and all skills are not mandatory, but will increase your chances

For more info on tryouts and clinics visit http://www.cheer.neu.edu