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Cheerleading

Spiritline is a year-round sport that consists of both Cheer and Pom teams. The Cheerleading team specializes in gymnastics-based acrobatic skills, like tumbling, stunting and pyramid building. The Pom team specializes in advanced dance skills like leaps, turns and kicks.  Both Cheer and Pom teams' goal is to encourage school spirit at school-sponsored events. They participate on the sidelines and during halftime of football and basketball games, attend promotional events for the school, perform at school assemblies and do volunteer work.  They also compete year-round in competitions that may include: USA Qualifiers, AIA Qualifiers, AIA State Championship, and USA Nationals.

Cheer Tryout Information

2024 Spring Tryouts  - April 15 through April 18

Eligibility requirements for 2024-2025season

  • Current 9th-11th Grade Students 
  • Must be enrolled with Willow Canyon High School for the 2024-2025 season 
  • Must complete a 24/25 Register My Athlete profile & be athletically cleared by clinic dates in order to participate. 

At this time, as instructed by AIA,  future Willow Canyon 9th grade athletes may only participate in instructional clinics, summer clinics and camps and will be eligible for Tryouts in the Fall. 

2024 Fall Tryouts  - July 30-31, 2024  Pre Tryout meeting July 22 in Lecture Hall @6pm

Eligibility requirements for 2024-2025 season

  • Must be enrolled with Willow Canyon High School for the 2024-2025 season 
  • Must complete a 24/25 Register My Athlete profile & be athletically cleared by clinic dates in order to participate.  Register My Athlete can be found by clicking on the following link RMA www.registermyathlete.com
  • Must have a completed physical uploaded to RMA. www.registermyathlete.com
  • RMA status must state "COMPLETE" in order to participate. 
  • Must complete WCHS Spiritline Tryout packet.

Cheer Tournament Schedule

  • 10/26/2024 - Desert Kick Off 
  • 11/16/2024 - UCA Desert Southwest Regional  
  • 11/23/2024- AIA State Championship Game Day
  • 12/14/2024-  USA Regional II
  • 1/11/2025- UCA Cactus Cup Challenge 
  • 1/16/2025-1?18/2025- AIA State Championship Traditional (Cheer&Pom)
  • 1/25/2025- Arizona Junior State Championship
  • 2/2/2025- TSC Sonoran Desert Classic
  • 2/5/2025-2/9-2025- National High School Cheerleading Championship
  • 2/13/2025-2/16/2025- High School Spirit Nationals 

Coach Information

Varsity Cheer Coach - Joshua Alavarez  [email protected]

FR/JV Cheer Coach - Sarah Ferris [email protected] 

Accolades

  • 2019 AIA D1/D2 Coed Cheer Runner-Up 
  • 2021 AIA D1/D2 Partner Stunt State Champions  
  • 2021 AIA D1/D2 Coed Cheer Runner-Up 
  • 2021 Sm Coed Adv USA National Champions 
  • 2022 AIA D1/D2 Coed Cheer Runner-Up 
  • 2022 Sm Coed Adv USA National Champions
  • 2023 AIA D1/D2 Partner Stunt State Champions
  • 2023 AIA D1/D2 Coed Cheer Champions
  • 2024 AIA D1/D2 Partner Stunt State Champions
  • 2024 AIA D1/D2 Coed Cheer Runner-Up
  • 2024 NHSCC Semi-Finalist 

Clinics & Events

2024  Mini Cheer Camp

September 21st, 2024 Location: TBD @9-12pm

Grades K-4th 

Cost: $40  

Will perform at Halftime on September 27, 2024

2024 Middle School/Level Cheer Camp 

June 17-19 @ Willow Canyon HS @7:30am-2:00pm

Grades 5th-8th  

Cost: TBD 

Social Media

Twitter: @wchs_spiritline  

Instagram: @wchs_spiritline      

Website: https://wchsspiritline.wixsite.com/spiritline 

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