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    Hello Spiritline Candidates,

    Thank you for your interest in trying out for our Spiritline. The Hillcrest Spiritline has placed multiple times in the State Cheer and Pom competition and our DVUSD regional competition. 

    Spiritline at Hillcrest is a cut sport and tryouts are required.  All of the students who make the team cheer for Wrestling Matches and Basketball games and are considered part of Spiritline.   In addition, the students who make Spirtline are required to participate in at least one of our competition teams (Cheer, Pom, Game Day or Multiple Teams).  Students who exhibit good cheer and dance skills are selected for two or three competition teams. The competition team a Spiritline member is selected for is determined by the coach based on feedback from the tryout judges.  Girls who make competition cheer will be placed on the State cheer competition team based on their score.  Girls who make pom are on the state pom team.  Both of these teams compete in the Regional and State competition.  These teams plus any girl who make the game day squad will compete in the game day category at Regionals.    

    Our competition teams are Cheer, Pom and Game Day (Regionals only) .  Competition cheer consists of routines that include tumbling and stunting.  Our competition, Pom team is a dance team.  Game day includes a band dance, a cheer and the performance of the school fight song. 

    Students tryout in groups of two or three in front of an independent judging panel.  Judges do not work at Hillcrest Middle school and are selected to judge only if they have a background in cheer or dance.  

    The information below is the tryout material for the 2024/2025 school year.

    Material to be judged during try-outs:

    1 Performance Cheer, 1 Sideline Dance, Jumps (toe jump, herkie, pike jump) (See links below)

    Gymnastics (Back Handspring, Back Tuck, Back Walkover, Round off), A La Seconde Turns, Ariel (front or side), Stretches - Scale, Heal Stretch (both sides)

    *note – Back handspring and back tuck can be running or standing.

     Girls can make the team if they do not have all of the skills judged at tryouts but are encouraged to continue to work to develop or acquire these skills to better position them to make cheer or pom in high school.  Girls are also encourage to stay in their tumbling or dance classes outside of school to continue to develop. 

    Jumps

    Toe Touch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDVsb5pXsA

    Pike Jump - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKj-HLcOnZw

    Herkie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbO3HMqGSc&feature=fvwrel

     

    Cheer-  Back and Front - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=153z-IHT0Sc

    Words to the Cheer

    Hillcrest (Clap Clap)

    Falcons (Clap Clap)

    Hillcrest (Clap Clap)

    Falcons (Clap Clap)

    Hillcrest (Clap Clap

    Falcons (Clap Clap)

    Here We Go

    Hillcrest   

    Falcons

    We never back down

    Our attitude is tough

    Our spirits are high

    Now Help us (Clap Clap)

    Yell out our pride

    Red 

    Black

    And

    White

    Fight Falcons Fight

    Red

    Black 

    and 

    White 

    Fight Falcons Fight

    Red 

    Black 

    And 

    White

    Fight Falcons Fight

    Fight Falcons Fight

    F

    A

    L

    C

    O

    N

    S

    Falcons 

    We are the best

    Yeah

     

    Tryout Dance (this video contains the dance with and without counts and the music)

    https://youtu.be/Oh0lUOykJgs

     

    A La Seconde Turns (up to four will be judged)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H9tMzSHqFs&feature=youtu.be

     

    Stretches (Scale and Heal Stretch) - https://youtu.be/dpVhuOhuZY0

     

    This is the tryout rubric the judges will be using to evaluate your audition. 

     

    Full tryout packet - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgSHGalZyGflf7nchLGKi8JMguTKgpr8/edit