School Cheer Team Age Divisions

Intermediate teams will follow AACCA Safety Guidelines with these additional skill restrictions.

• (Max time limit: 2 min 30 sec) Routine may be partial or all music.
• Standing Tumbling– Flips are not allowed. (No standing back tucks or back handspring back tucks).
• Running Tumbling– Back flips may only be performed from a round-off or round-off back handspring entry. Flips may only be performed in a tuck position. No tumbling is allowed after the flip. No twisting while airborne. Aerial Cartwheels are allowed.No tumbling allowed after the flip or the aerial cartwheel or after the cartwheel tucked flips and or cartwheel back handspring. Tucks are not allowed.
• Stunts- .Twisting transitions to and from an extended position may not exceed 1/2 twisting transition. Release moves must start below prep level and must be caught at prep level or below. Release moves may not pass above extended arm level.
• Pyramids– During a pyramid transition, top person may pass above 2 persons high while in direct, arm‐to‐arm contact with two other top persons at prep level or below. Braced flips are not allowed.
• Dismounts– Only straight pop downs, basic straight rides, and 1/4 turns are allowed from any single leg stunt. Up to 1 1/4 twist are allowed from any two leg stunt.
• Tosses– Up to 1 trick allowed during a toss. Tosses may not exceed 1 twisting rotation.
• **Basket tosses, Elevator Sponge Tosses and Toe Pitch Tosses are prohibited in Elementary and Junior High/Middle School Divisions.

(Max time limit: 2 min 30 sec) Routine may be partial or all music.

• Advanced & College teams will follow the standard AACCA Safety Guidelines and College Safety Guidelines with no other skill restrictions.

TIME OUT CHEER RULES AND RESTRICTIONS (Showcase your best sideline crowd-leading material. The use of signs, poms, flags and or megaphones is encouraged.)

• 1-minute time limit
• Crowd Involvement Emphasized
• At least 2 performance required from the following: Cheer, Chants, traditional yells, and or drum cadences.
• No music permitted. Drum cadence can be used by CD or Live Drummers
• No Baskets, sponge, elevator, or similar type tosses permitted
• No inversions and or twisting into or out of stunts.
• Single leg extended stunts are limited to liberties and liberty hitches
• No running tumbling allowed.
• Tumbling limited to standing back handspring and or standing back tucks

FIGHT SONG RULES AND RESTRICTIONS (Perform your favorite School Fight Song)

• 1-minute time limit
• Up to three consecutive eight counts, may include stunts, tumbling and or jumps, incorporation must repeat as performed initially
• Same Restrictions as listed in Time Out Cheer Rules and Restrictions

TIME OUT DANCE RULES AND RESTRICTIONS (Perform your favorite Time Out Dance)

• 1-minute time limit
• Traditional sideline uniforms required
• Crowd Entertainment Emphasized
• No stunts or tumbling permitted

NON-TUMBLING SKILL RESTRICTIONS (Teams will follow the Skill Restrictions and Standard AACCA Safety Guidelines)

• Tumbling is not allowed in the Non-Tumbling Division
• Max time limit 2 min 30 seconds (Partial or all music)

(College Teams will follow the AACCA College Safety Guidelines w/no other skill restrictions.)