Tryout Qualifications

 

Individuals wishing to tryout for the squad must first meet these qualifications:

 

1. Applicants who are UT Tyler students during the semester of the tryout process must be enrolled in 12 or more hours with a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher.  Applicants must also be considered full-time students at UT Tyler.  Applicants may not be placed on the squad until they have met the squad member academic requirement of a cumulative UT Tyler grade point average of 2.0 or higher and a semester grade point average of 2.0 or higher.
2. Applicants who are transfer students or high school students without a grade point average from UT Tyler must submit their transcript from their last school (university, junior college, or high school) and must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher.  A copy of their acceptance (conditional) letter to UT Tyler must also be submitted.
3. Applicants must not graduate before May 2011 and must be available for the entire term of squad duties extending from May 2010 through and including May 2011.
4. Applicants MUST be able to attend pre-camp activities, summer camp, and Post-camp practices and activities.
5. Applicants must submit the squad application and a $15.00 cheer tryout fee and $20.00 dance tryout fee by the deadline.
6. Graduate students may tryout for a squad.

 

 

All individuals who desire to be on the squad, even those who have been on the squad before, must tryout each year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information about cheerleading or mascot at UT Tyler, contact:

Carla Turner
The University of Texas at Tyler
( 903) 565-5634
cturner@uttyler.edu

For more information about the dance squad at UT Tyler, contact:

Natalie Spurr

The Univerisity of Texas at Tyler

(903) 565-5634

nspurr@uttyler.edu