My daughter is currently in second grade and hopes to compete L3 next year. We have started considering after-school child care options that will accommodate this, and it got me thinking about the long term. I can see how homework and gymnastics could remain manageable through the end of elementary school, but I just can't imagine how it could possibly work in middle school or high school. If she stays in gymnastics that long, practice will begin 1/2 hour after middle school lets out and last until 8:00 p.m. four nights a week, no matter what level she's competing. I just don't see when or how she would get any of her schoolwork done. Then over the summer, she will be forced to choose between gymnastics training and some very rewarding academic summer programs. Parents who have been there and done that, how do you make it all work? I know that this is all far in the future, she may not stick with the sport that long, and I should really just be worrying about the mill circle right now, but I am a planner and I like to know what's coming.