How large are your compulsory teams

[momof5]

and have you ever had a situation where you child was ready to move up but there weren't enough slots? My DD is at tryout camp this week and I think that she has a good chance of making the team. I think that she would make the team no problem if they weren't under a numbers crunch. Our level 4 team is capped out at 22. I figure with the kids repeating 4 and the preteam move ups that there might only be slots for 6-9 girls and 20 are trying out. I understand that the gym can only take so many but I would hate for my daughter to be left out for that reason. Our level 5 is 19 kids and our 6's have 11.

[gym law mom]

Neither gym we've been at has ever had a cap on the number of girls on a team, but neither gym had teams below L5 and those seem to be the largest in terms of pure numbers. I guess for your gym it does come down to how many girls they can coach/get ready for meets etc. and 22 is quite a few. Sounds like its a stressful week for all concerned considering the number of girls wanting to move up.

Do you find out at the end of the week re: dd's status or are they going to make you wait? If she doesn't make the team this week, is that it until next summer or could she move up later on?

Right now, I think our gym has 12-14 in L5 and 9 or so at L6

[Livinatthegym]

The largest lvl 4 team I've seen was 17. That required 3 coaches on the floor with the girls. If we don't have 3 coaches, the numbers are smaller. I think dd1's lvl 4 year they had 9 (2 coaches). Dd2's they had 14 (2 coaches and things were stretched VERY thin).

Each year attrition claims some of the team, so expect the numbers to decline. Nationally, USAG's stats show about 1/2 the girls out by lvl 6.

[momof5]

For the level 4 team they have 3 coaches.
This has been very stressful for me and my DD. If they don't make it they have to wait until next year. They post the results on Saturday morning so we will have to drive to the gym and read the list posted on the door.

[Livinatthegym]

We got a letter in the mail, but that meant that results were delayed a week to 10 days after selections were made.

Sorry this is so stressful. How old is your dd, anyway? At a level a year, a girl could still make lvl 10 and do two seasons of it if she starts competing at age 10. When our gym has to limit the number of new level 4s it can take, they lean toward the older girls if things could go either way between some of the girls trying out. They figure the younger really do have time and can wait.

[Shawn]

Right now we have 12 girls on the L4 team. I've not come across a team's being "full" but then again, ours is a pretty small gym.

[Gymmonkeymomma]

We don't have a "cap" or really a minimum. The year Big DD was Level 4, there were 4 of them ages 6, 8, 9, 12. The year Little Monkey was Level 4, there were 14 girls. For the upcoming season, we will have:
Level 4 - 10
Level 5/6 - 12 total - 4 new level 5's, 2 girls repeating L5, 2 girls repeating L6 and another 4 girls I"m not sure if they are staying at 5 or moving up.
Level 8 - 7
Level 9- 1

[kristilyn73]

Our Gym doesnt compete until Level 5. It is hard to say how many we have in each level this up coming season since we are still doing some move arounds. But Last year we had
10 Level 5's,
5 Level 6's,
6 Level 7's,
6 Level 8's,
3 Level 9's and
1 Level 10.

[gymmomntc2e6]

We have had a sudden influx of girls from another gym so our team (L3-8) has grown from 15 ( about 5 of those 15 left our gym) to 23.

we will have:
L3 - 11
L4 - 0
L5 - 7
L6 - 4
L8 - 1

[Monkeygirlsmom]

Im not sure how many in each level but I think from preteam - 7 we have a total of 40 girls