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CHEERS AND POMS
Spirited men
women sought for co-ed cheer team
By Stacy Brasher Stott:Mier
UCO's pompon and co-ed cheerleading teams will hold tryouts for their 1999-2000 squads soon.
Porn tryouts are scheduled for Saturday, April 24 at Hamilton Fieldhouse, with tryout clinics being held on April 22 and 23
Co-ed cheer tryouts will be Saturday, May 1, at Wantland Hall, with clinics on April 29 and 30.
Attendance at one of the clinics is required; however, it's strongly suggested that applicants attend both days.
Applications for the squads are available at the Student Activities Office, Room 424 of the University Center.
Porn squad applications are due by noon April 21. Cheer team applications are due at noon April 28. Both require a $20 application fee.
Neither squad has a junior varsity level, so all members are considered varsity, and incoming freshmen are eligible for tryouts. and dance
performances,
running tumbling, standing tumbling, jumps, stunts, crowd appeal
Lynn Means
and spirit.
They will be required to perform one cheer routine
UCO and transfer students must have a and one dance routine, which will be
cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.25, and freshmen are required to have a high school GPA of 2.70 or higher.
Participants trying out for the porn squad will be judged on dance ability, technique, kicks, turns, leaps, appearance, crowd appeal and spirit.
They will be required to perform a routine taught during the clinic, as well as an individually choreographed routine.
Students trying out for the cheerleading squad will be judged on the required cheer taught at the clinic.
Lynn Means, director of Student Activities, who will be the sponsor for both the cheer and porn squads next school year, encourages males to become involved as UCO cheerleaders.
By having a co-ed team, she feels the squad will have a more collegiate look which it may have lacked in recent years. "It's been co-ed in the past," she said, "About five years ago, there were just as many men as there were women on the squad."
The requirements were never changed to an all-female squad; but over the years, the lack of males in the group may have been misleading.
Ryan Tully, captain of the cheer team, was a member of UCO's last co-ed squad. "My freshman year we had one guy on the squad, but since then, there's just been a lack of interest," she said.
Tully feels that a co-ed squad could better entertain an audience at sporting events, and that it would simply be more exciting to watch a co-ed performance.
Scholarships for both squads are available. "If they (team members) meet all of the requirements during the semester, as far as attendance and such, they will receive a $250 cash stipend," said Means. "Captains typically receive $350 because of their added responsibilities."
Both squads attend all home games for wrestling, football and men and women's basketball, said Means. "We also travel to many away games," she said.
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