Our gym has been open for four years. We have finally built our team program up & are seeing our first homegrown team members this past year.
We just lost 3 L4 girls to the "gym down the street" (about 40+ miles away since we are in the boondocks). Two of these girls just won 1st and 2nd place at state. Their parents gave the reasoning of they wanted a "more serious gym." We are "too much fun". Seriously? Isn't that the best of both worlds? Fun and winning? I just don't understand.
So my question is... how do you run your team program?
How do I build my team and stop being a feeder gym to that "gym down the street"? I have developed some good lower level gymnasts but can't seem to keep them to show others that we can keep up with the big gyms and thus won't be able to develop an optionals team if they keep leaving for that bigger gym that's been around longer.
I don't want to stop having fun. What do I do?
We just lost 3 L4 girls to the "gym down the street" (about 40+ miles away since we are in the boondocks). Two of these girls just won 1st and 2nd place at state. Their parents gave the reasoning of they wanted a "more serious gym." We are "too much fun". Seriously? Isn't that the best of both worlds? Fun and winning? I just don't understand.
So my question is... how do you run your team program?
How do I build my team and stop being a feeder gym to that "gym down the street"? I have developed some good lower level gymnasts but can't seem to keep them to show others that we can keep up with the big gyms and thus won't be able to develop an optionals team if they keep leaving for that bigger gym that's been around longer.
I don't want to stop having fun. What do I do?