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So.... we revised our plan. We agreed she'd finish the USAG season which will end in April. Only the top 20% go to regionals and I highly doubt she'll go to that but she said she would if she made it (adds another week). Meanwhile, she still doesn't want to go to practice :-/ I know it's her...

I'm still not sure about talking the the coaches. There's one in particular who sometimes doesn't seem too mature (though she's older than me) and I worry she'll make snarky comments making it even worse. I would like her to follow through for at least the USAG season (3 more weeks).

Currently she's good with our plan. She said she knows she wants to go to at least one more competition and she would prefer it be a "big" one. This allows her to have that experience she wants one last time without making her commit until early July.

This has been going on since November. She says it's too much. Too many hours, too many days a week and too many meets. I think she just wants to be free to be a kid for the rest of her childhood. My first reaction was that she had to finish out her commitment.... but as my husband stated...

This exactly where I'm leaning.

Unfortunately, I know them well enough that talking to them will not likely help too much at this point. At least they don't complain much about absences, which allows me to give her days off when she needs them or when there's something going on she doesn't want to miss.

Yes, that includes everything. There's no option for reducing meets. It's so much the meets she struggles with but the long and frequent practices.

No. It's just a different league. She had a total of 8 meets on the schedule. 4 USAG and 4 AAU. She only has one USAG one left.

After a long break from gymnastics, my daughter is competing again this year. It's what she wanted... Or so she thought. After getting a lot of push back about going to practice, we settled on this being her last season. I won't lie, I was sad but we've lived without gymnastics before and I know...

I have settled on telling them shortly before her last meet. Probably the week of. This way, they can celebrate with her but I don't have to worry too much about her missing out on uptraining. They'll still want her to perform well at the meet.

This here is why I don't want to tell too early. Uptraining is fun and on the days they uptrain she comes home with that spark in her eye. She still loves gymnastics. She just doesn't want to be on a gymnastics team next year.

Thanks.

My daughter has decided this will be her last season. I'm kinda sad but I know this is the right decision for her. We have 3 more meets left (last one in late June since we do USAG and AAU). When would you tell the coaches? I don't want to tell too early because I worry they'd coach her...

DD8 has had knee pain for a while. It finally got bad enough to go see a doctor. After XRAYS and an MRI, all they determined was discoid meniscus, which shouldn't cause any pain on it's own. They found no tears or inflammation... nothing. She's been on rest since March. Has anyone ever had...

So DD8 was in level 1 last year (at age 7). She was one of the oldest in her group. She was often the example "do it the way she does" for the younger girls. She did wonderfully at states (1st all around). That's what she remembers. Our gym does AAU at first. AAU does not give placements...