How Do You Handle Judges At Cheerleading Tryouts?
“Now you want to be prepared to go in and just know a little bit about the judging panel and how you’re being judged. First of all, the judging panel is going to be usually made up of about three or four people. These people are going to consist of your coach, your assistant coach, usually a captain of the team, and a lot of times a guest judge will be brought in just to make sure that everything is fair. These people don’t know you so it’s definitely giving everyone a chance to be judged fairly. This person will usually be someone who’s chaired before, a lot of times brought in by a college that’s around. So now that you know who’s going to be judging you, you need make sure that you treat all of them the same. Now say the captain of the squad is Susie, your best friend from third period math, or Susie, your best friend from swim team, we’re not going to acknowledge that. Susie is here to judge, and you’re here to perform, so we need to make sure to maintain that relationship. Now the
