Recent content by princesspower36

Sorry, didn’t realize this was in the coaches forum. I’m not a coach. Just a parent.

It is so great you are concerned about this and want to discuss it with her family rather than brushing it off. As the mother of a child with ADHD who is medicated (not my gymnast) I agree, please don’t use the term “overmedicated”. You are not familiar with her medical history. There is some...

Yep, we are on vacation now :). I agree that 20 hrs is a lot - I think the extra vacay actually helps offset that since she’s only training 5 of 9 weeks. The high performer program is the name the school calls it (not gymnastics specific, for all different sports). we could switch back if we...

Hi all, My daughter is entering her second year of comp. she’s 9 (turning 10) and expected to be level 4/5 this year. As last summer’s training schedule was still disrupted by COVID restrictions, we weren’t sure what to expect for this summer and only got the summer schedule after we made some...

Aren’t NCAA gymnastics teams capped at 20 hours of training per week? If so, coaches don’t have the choice to mandate more training hours.

I think your plan is very reasonable. I do agree with you re the gym’s expectation that the child have daytime training one half day a week and miss school is not reasonable esp for lower levels. I don’t know if this is an Ontario thing??

Sorry, to clarify - she’ll go to the athlete school program starting next year.

We are also in Ontario. My daughter is grade 4, level 3 this past year. She ended up missing Friday afternoons for practice which was “mandatory” but there were a couple of girls who didn’t do it. I didn’t love the idea of it initially. But spoke to mom (retired teacher) and my daughter’s...

My daughter is also 9 yo and in level 3 in Ontario (Toronto). It is her first year in comp. She does 12-15 hrs/ week (3 hrs are “optional”). She likely will be moving to level 4 next yr, and it will probably be 16 hrs (possibly 3 more hours are “optional”).