PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State's nationally prominent cheer squad and Crimson Girls will hold tryouts and auditions, respectively, in April, spirit coordinator and head cheer coach, Chris Opheim, announced Monday. 

Cheer tryouts will take place Friday-Saturday, April 13-14, 2018 at PEB 146 on the WSU Pullman campus,

"If our spring clinic registration is any indicator, we could be expecting quite a large turnout for this year's tryout," Opheim said. "I believe placing well at Nationals helps get the word out to more kids that WSU is an elite cheerleading program that they're excited to try out for."

Crimson Girls Auditions will take place Friday-Sunday, April 20-22, 2018 in the same location. Both are closed to the public.

"We're hoping to build off of the success of reaching finals and placing in the top-10 this year at nationals," head Crimson Girls coach, Kaila Evenoff said. "Our spring clinic registration showed us there is a lot of interest in the Crimson Girls program from the state of Washington, as well as the West Coast. It'll be interesting to see the talent that we have shown up this year for auditions, I'm really excited!"

In January, both WSU Cheer and the Crimson Girls had their best finishes in school history at the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) and Universal Dancers Association (UDA) College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships, respectively, placing sixth and eighth. 

Anyone interested in trying out, must register first. The registration link and all other information needed for tryouts can be found here. 

Questions for cheer tryouts can be addressed to Opheim at chris.opheim@wsu.edu, while Crimson Girls audition questions can be sent to Evenoff at kevenoff@wsu.edu.