USIAA Cheerleading Rules:
Scholarship and Roster Rules:
- All programs can only have a max of 42 players during the regular season; this limit is lifted to 155 players for preseason tryouts only.
- All programs can choose whether to allow athletic scholarships or not; start-up programs are given a max of 5 years to decide whether or not to provide athletic scholarships to players.
- All scholarship programs can only have a max of 12 total scholarships, and a max of 6 full scholarship players.
- All programs can only have a max of 21 players on the active varsity roster & 21 on the active JV roster
- 5 points for 1st place.
- 4 points for 2nd place.
- 3 points for 3rd place.
- 2 points for 4th place.
- 1 point for 5th place.
- 0 points for 6th place or worse.
- The USIAA state tournaments will be held in mid-August & will consist of all cheer teams that want to be competitive
- The USIAA regional tournaments will be held in early December & will consist of the 1p 16 teams in the region, with at least 1 team from each state.
- The USIAA Championship is a individual tournament beginning in the first week of May.