Hi All, this is my first post, but I've been reading (and learning a lot) for a while. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with IDP and height. My daughter is in the IDP program at her gym. When she was first asked to join a little over a year ago, she was on about the 25th percentile. Since then she has had an extraordinary growth spurt and is now closer to the 60th with no sign of the growth spurt stopping. She has been working very hard and is doing very well. She's committed, loves the coaches, and loves the other girls in her tight knit group. She will be heartbroken if a couple of extra centremeters is the only reason she's tipped out of the IDP stream. It's something hard work and committment can't fix!
I understand that there's really no room in the IDP program for an extraordinarily tall gymnast so if/when it happens I'll help her be pragmatic about it. But I'm wondering how soon that is likely to be. Is there a height where they just can't keep a gymnast on anymore regardless of her talent? I have asked her coach who is a little cagey about it (and I can understand why). But I am interested because if it's likely to happen sooner rather than later I'd like to start preparing her a little bit.
I understand that there's really no room in the IDP program for an extraordinarily tall gymnast so if/when it happens I'll help her be pragmatic about it. But I'm wondering how soon that is likely to be. Is there a height where they just can't keep a gymnast on anymore regardless of her talent? I have asked her coach who is a little cagey about it (and I can understand why). But I am interested because if it's likely to happen sooner rather than later I'd like to start preparing her a little bit.