Yes
Yes
Amount differs each year
No
Yes. However, all of our current coed cheerleaders developed coed skills prior to tryouts through private lessons or affiliation with coed teams.
No. High school cheerleading does help with knowing how to cheer for various sports and game type situations.
No. A competitive team does allow you to maintain and gain more skills to help you progress as an athlete.
For 2021 Cheer Tryouts, new athletes will try out by video/live virtual. Details of video requirements and submissions will be available after registering to tryout through bamacheercamps.com.
At this time, we still aren’t having in-person events. We are having virtual clinics/Q&A and will post information about these on Alabama Cheer Instagram as well as rolltide.com. You will register for virtual clinics at bamacheercamps.com.
Yes. Both teams compete at UCA College Nationals.
A full is not required to make it past the first tumbling cut. All currents athletes on the team at least have a running tumbling full.
Typically, no, but in 2021 we will be having tryouts by video/live virtual. Details of video requirements and submissions will be available after registering to tryout through bamacheercamps.com.
All Girl cheers football, women’s basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics.
Coed cheers football, men’s basketball, volleyball, and
Both teams do community appearances as often as possible.
Practice at least 4 times a week for about 2 hours each time. Workouts twice a week at 5:30am. Community appearances every week.
Coed cheers Football and Men’s basketball. All Girl cheers Football, Women’s basketball, Gymnastics, & Volleyball. For all events except Football, we split into groups, so the entire team only cheers Football.
The SEC basketball tournament falls around the time of the break as well as any postseason play, so all are expected to be available to cheer.
There are events during holidays that you may be assigned to cheer, and this is generally determined by how far away you live. People within a 4 hour (or so) radius will typically be asked to cheer during the breaks. Practices will vary, but sometimes we practice over a break, especially around Nationals season.
Yes, we do have girls on the team that are in a sorority. It is important to understand the time commitment of both. It is also important to understand that cheerleading takes top priority.