Clinic Day Requirements

CHEERLEADING TEAM SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

The UNC Asheville Spirit Team Coaches will be looking for all positions for the team. There will be all-girl and co-ed style groups that make up the cheerleading team. Participants must be able to handle the athletic demands of the program.

Game Day Material: Emphasis on clean and sharp cheer motions, enthusiasm. Participants will learn game day material including: chants, fight song, cadences. Spirit Coaches will be looking for members who can represent UNC Asheville with professionalism, maturity, can best represent the institution.

Jumps: Required Toe Touch, double toe. Additional jumps may be showcased.

Tumbling: Currently there is no tumbling requirements for the cheerleading team. Coaching staff do ask you be willing to work towards basic standing and running tumbling skills. Tumbling skills are performed on a basketball court surface.

Stunting: Coaches will be looking for flyers, main base, secondary base, and back spot positions for the team. You will be asked to preform the following:

Express Up Extension
Walk in Liberty with a pop off dismount
Additional skills may be required: full up, rewind, switch up, low to high, or high to high, flipping and twisting dismounts.

Interview: All participants will have a short interview with the spirit coaches where maturity, attitude, passion, and commitment to the program will be evaluated.

DANCE TEAM SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Game Day Material: Emphasis on clean and sharp motions, enthusiasm. Participants will learn game day material including: chants, fight song, cadences. Spirit Coaches will be looking for members who can represent UNC Asheville with professionalism, maturity, and can best represent the institution.

Technical Skills:

Turns- dancers should be able to perform a clean double pirouette turn. Other turns (triples, laterals, etc.)
Jumps: Toe Touch
Kicks: L/R to front, L/R to side, L/R to aerobesque
Leaps- grand jete, side leap, switch leap, calypso
Flexibility: Splits left and right, center

Dance Styles: Hip hop, pom and jazz

Interview: All participants will have a short interview with the spirit coaches where maturity, attitude, passion, and commitment to the program will be evaluated.

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