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Lakeville Cheer Tryouts 2025


Lakeville Cheerleading / Tryouts -
Enrichment Winter/Spring 2025

Grades 2-11 (As of the Fall 2025 School Year) Please note these tryouts are intended for ISD194 students only.

Teams are determined by a variety of factors including skill level, experience, teamwork, dedication, work ethic, leadership, and attitude.

**Competition Squads require a STRONG attendance and cost commitment to the program. Please review the team descriptions for an idea of the cost and schedule that each squad requires. Please note that it is VERY important the level of commitment is understood prior to tryouts. Red and Gold squads do not require tryouts for Fall placement. For information about our Elementary rec squads please see: https://sites.google.com/isd194.org/lvcheertryouts/elementary-rec

FALL TRYOUTS FOR COMPETITION & SIDELINE SQUADS: Clinic Days . Actual Tryout Date May 10

Clinic Times will be 4:30-6:30 pm for JV/Varstiy Comp and 6:30 - 8:30 pm for LVE, LVA and Middle School. All Dates are required. See links below for more details!

  • Review Fall Team Descriptions & Tryout requirements.
    • Sideline Cheerleading: 
    • Competition Cheerleading: 
  • For details regarding the week of tryouts please see: 

Sideline Squads: (Experience is not required for placements, however strong effort at tryouts is a must!)

Varsity North Sideline

Varsity South Sideline

Competition Squads: (Minimum skills are required for placements) **

Elementary

Elementary Advanced

Middle School

Junior Varsity (note Sideline is a requirement*)

Varsity Comp (note Sideline is a requirement*)

*Sideline participation is a requirement for placement on these squads (Athletes will participate on North or South)

Instructors

Ashlynn Baumgart

Ashlynn graduated from Prior Lake High School in 2019. She cheered throughout elementary, middle and high school! After pursuing her passion at Culinary School for a year, she got right back into the cheer world with coaching! She is also a former Tumbling Club Coach. In total she has now been coaching competition teams for around 5 years and is very excited to be apart of the Lakeville program!!


Rachel Benedix

Rachel graduated in 2019 from Prior Lake High School. She started cheering in 5th grade and then went on to cheer for Prior Lake’s JV and Varsity teams. Rachel graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2023 with a Bachelor's in Education and got a job as a 4th-grade teacher. Rachel has coached for Lakeville's LVE and JV teams and is currently coaching LVA, Middle School, and North Sideline. She is excited to continue working with all these amazing athletes in this program.


Haley Sklenar

Haley graduated in 2012 from Park High School in Cottage Grove. She has played many sports through her life including soccer, hockey, softball, rec football, gymnastics, and volleyball. She started cheerleading in high school for football and hockey at Park in 2008. She was also a part of the Competition team at Park. After graduation she attended University of St. Thomas where she cheered on the "Tommies" at Football and Basketball games for three years. She is also a part of the Northern Elite Open 6 team “Inferno” and loves to compete! She has coached for a Varsity team for 2.5 years before coming to Lakeville and is very excited to work with the team and can’t wait to see where this new journey takes her. 

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  Haley Sklenar , Rachel Benedix , Ashlynn Baumgart


Kenwood Trail Middle School : General: Gym - Full
Tue May 6 & Wed May 7
4:30 - 7:30 PM

Kenwood Trail Middle School : Fitness Center: Student, District Sponsored Use Only and General: Gym - Full
Saturday, May 10
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Grades   2nd - 12th

Price: $ 20 00