A college coach looking at a cheer athlete has a few minutes and a lot of names. What helps is a short, honest page: what the athlete does on the mat, what they have landed, how their teams finished, and a clip or two that shows it.
Nobody hands you a template for this, so here is what tends to matter, in plain words.
What a coach wants to see first
The role on the mat — flyer, base, backspot or tumbler — and the level the athlete competes at. That tells a coach in one line whether to keep reading.
Then the skills the athlete can do reliably, not the ones they are still working on. A short list of things that are solid reads better than a long list of maybes.
Film beats description
A coach will believe a clip before a sentence. One clean clip of the athlete’s strongest skill is worth more than five long ones; put the best one first.
Host the film somewhere a coach can open without an account, and link to it rather than attaching a file.
Results, with their context
A placement means more with the size of the field and the team’s level beside it. A team score means little without the total it was out of.
What to leave off
A home address, a phone number and anything a stranger should not have. Contact can go through a form, and a coach who is interested will use it.
Grades and test scores are worth sharing when they help, and only when the family chooses to.
From 13 on, an athlete’s packet is built from their own record: only Mastered and Competition Ready skills, each approved one at a time, results with their field size and level, and film links from YouTube, Hudl or Vimeo, with a one-page combine sheet to hand a coach. It sits behind its own private link that can be switched off at any time. It never shows a phone number or address, it shows academics only when they are switched on, and no athlete under 13 has one.
What Athelos does for families →