Hey! I posted several weeks ago. My 5 year old was being evaluated for the summer pre-team at our gym in South Carolina. The coach told me she wanted to see her in the summer class from late May- early August. A few days later, I sent an email to the coach that was working with my daughter about letting her know the week we would be out of town. I got an email back saying she wanted her to stay in rec classes. She is currently in Rec B (which is like an intermediate class). They pull kids from Rec C at our gym to be on the team. I'm not sure how long they stay in Rec C until they're on the team. She'll be in Kindergarten in the fall. The youngest girls on the team look about 8-9. I'm not sure why she "cut" her. She was by far the strongest and a good listener.
I visited another gym in town yesterday. It's a smaller gym. The daughter of a woman I work with went through level 9 at this gym. She says this gym might have 6 competing and the other gym might have 15. She said her gym gave her daughter more one on one time. They needed their gymnast to have high scores since it was so much smaller. I took my 5 year old to be evaluated. They were amazed by her strength and talent. They wanted to skip rec and put her on the advanced track. But, I really like the facility of the gym she is currently taking. It's a much nicer facility. Plus, her sister's friends (2 years older) take at our current gym. She is in class with them so it makes gymnastic way more fun. But, since she isn't on pre-team. A couple of questions:
1. Has anyone had a daughter be asked to be on team without pre-team? Are they behind? (Again, pre-team at our gym is taken from the preschool class. My daughter was in preschool, 4K, but started at Rec A class. She didn't take when she was 3 like she was obviously suppose to!)
2. Should I email the coach at our gym and say something like, "hey if anybody has dropped out of preteam, Lauren would love to join!"
3. Should I change gyms? I'm only afraid she won't think it's as "fun".
I visited another gym in town yesterday. It's a smaller gym. The daughter of a woman I work with went through level 9 at this gym. She says this gym might have 6 competing and the other gym might have 15. She said her gym gave her daughter more one on one time. They needed their gymnast to have high scores since it was so much smaller. I took my 5 year old to be evaluated. They were amazed by her strength and talent. They wanted to skip rec and put her on the advanced track. But, I really like the facility of the gym she is currently taking. It's a much nicer facility. Plus, her sister's friends (2 years older) take at our current gym. She is in class with them so it makes gymnastic way more fun. But, since she isn't on pre-team. A couple of questions:
1. Has anyone had a daughter be asked to be on team without pre-team? Are they behind? (Again, pre-team at our gym is taken from the preschool class. My daughter was in preschool, 4K, but started at Rec A class. She didn't take when she was 3 like she was obviously suppose to!)
2. Should I email the coach at our gym and say something like, "hey if anybody has dropped out of preteam, Lauren would love to join!"
3. Should I change gyms? I'm only afraid she won't think it's as "fun".
And if she is happy, well then she is loving it and having fun. Which at age 5 is really all that matters.
