No, but your gym may require it. Our gym generally doesn’t move girls to level 6 without it. They will make exceptions for injuries, but that’s about it.
My daughter is only in 8th grade but we have a few 2026s in our gym and it’s been exciting having college coaches visit recently! I can’t wait to see where they end up.
This decision is obviously up to my daughter’s coach, I have zero input, and wouldn’t even discuss it with them, but I’m curious what other parents/coaches think.
Is it better to repeat level 9 and have a strong year, or move to level 10 without 10.0 start values on all events?
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Just wanted to post an update. My daughter is 9 weeks post injury and is back to full weight bearing. Was pain free doing handstands etc at around 7 weeks. Isn’t tumbling or anything yet but started back with bar basics, giants, cast handstands, strap bar work and tramp tumbling.
Most girls we saw this year were doing yurchenko pikes, more layouts as the season went on, those were usually the winning vaults. Second to yurchenkos were tsuks and then the rare front handspring-front.
Our booster club gives money to the gym, which credits all the parents accounts equally to lower meet/coaches fees. We have a contract with the gym saying what the funds will be used for.
It’s hard as a working parent, I work full time and as of this year am required to be back in the office 3 days a week. I’ll start my workday from home early, then drop my daughter off on the way to the office, then use my lunch hour to pick her up, and then finish my day from home. It makes for...
I think USAG should then question WHY nationals is about a battle of some arbitrary regions that aren’t evenly matched anyway. Region 2 doesn’t even have enough girls to fill out half of most of its age groups for example.
Does anyone even really care what region won? I’ve never once looked it...
I’m not sure, it doesn’t mention that situation at all here. https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/document/c702-3150145/2024_All-Star_qualifications.pdf