DD's Sectional Meet Results - We qualified for States!

[gym law mom]

GrannyS--congrats to your dd! We have to wait til Jan to start competing, so a few more months of skills and finally putting routines together. Great scores for her 2nd meet!! Looks like she'll be ready for L8 next year. Here, we don't do sectionals---just have to hit the state meet qualifying score at a sanctioned in state meet. For Levels 4-7 its 33 AA and for L8-10, its 32.

As to the discussion on the leos from G. Yes, our old gym got new leos from them last year and we had 3 rip under the arm. The problem was their idea of a seam was about 1mm of fabric pulled together. They couldn't fix them once they ripped and had to send new ones. As for warm ups we did notice a difference in the length of pants etc in the same size. One kid's CM would have the length of almost a CL and someone else's would fit like a CS.

Additional congrats to all the other dds out there who are competing. Seems weird to have the fall "off" now.

[Granny Smith]

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Originally Posted by gym law mom GrannyS--congrats to your dd! We have to wait til Jan to start competing, so a few more months of skills and finally putting routines together. Great scores for her 2nd meet!! Looks like she'll be ready for L8 next year. Here, we don't do sectionals---just have to hit the state meet qualifying score at a sanctioned in state meet. For Levels 4-7 its 33 AA and for L8-10, its 32.

Thanks GLM. Well, we are here in NJ and the way the competition seasons run are Levels 4, 6 & 7 are in fall with States in Jan. Levels 5, 8, 9 & 10 are in the Spring with States in May.

Dd will definitely be ready for L8 but I don't think that her gym will let her do it this Spring. Last yr they had some 2nd yr 7s that did 3 meets, the Invitational to qualify to Sectional and 1 Sectional to qualify for States and then States. They all went immediately to L8 in the Spring. The coaches said it was too much, so I will doubt that they would do that again. So I am thinking that she will basically train for a yr and then compete L8 the following yr.

Our gym really doesn't compete a lot of meets. This yr as a L7 if we compete 6 meets (including (3) Sectionals & States) that is about the average for what our gym does. We don't really travel or anything.

When you get to L8 - L10, then the travelling begins, where it seems that you don't do any meets in NJ except for States. So, although my dd would love to go straight to L8 this yr, I don't think it will happen. We will sit back and enjoy training and I will save my money for next yr.

Funny thing is for as little meets that we do, compared with most other gyms around, we are a very reputable gym. We don't compete a lot, but when we do come to a meet, our girls usually do really well.