Our biggest fundraiser (besides meets), is our annual father-daughter dance that we host. It has turned into a huge event that our community looks forward to every year. Since there is virtually no over-head (we just use a local gym at a school for venue, a dj donates her time each year and each...
I love your whole post. And I can so relate. My DD is in her first year of optionals as well (L7) and yesterday at her meet she also placed dead last in her age group. I was still super proud of her. She scored personal best scores on 3 events (even with a fall on beam) and would of on bars too...
Good luck to her and you! I vividly remember our first meet! So fun!
My DD always has extra hair stuff, a water bottle, z-bars (her favorite snack), she used to pack around her lucky monkey.
I always also slip in a little good luck/I'm proud of you note that I know she will find. Of course 4...
We use Beyond The Scores too. Now that they have fixed some issues that happened when they updated it, I'm back to loving it. As someone else mentioned some meets have live scoring and some don't.
To keep track of my DD's season I use an app called Tumble Tally. I like to compare scores meet...
L7 here too. She is in no other activities. She pretty much sleeps, goes to school, straight to gym from there and then home to eat, shower and go to bed. She's 9, so when she is home she spends most of the time reading, playing on her tablet (YouTube gymnastics videos of course!), or just...
Never ever have we had a meet get cancelled. We have driven in horrendous conditions several times and once been stuck at a complete stand still for 6 hours, in the middle of nowhere, on I-80 once coming home from a meet in Park City UT, though.
It's just part of living where we do. I live in...
Sounds similar to what my DD did when she started gym. Rec to team in about 3 months. There was no L2 then, but it was old L3, which is basically the same thing. She started off training 12 hours a week, and she had just turned 6. It never bugged her. And I don't find it extreme at all...
We tend to stay on the Western side of the country for our big travel meets. My favorite so far has been Lady Luck in Vegas. Schedule was out early, they let us request our sessions due to how remote we live and having limited flight days in and out of here, and it was so well run. Seriously one...
It is so frustrating! I'm waiting on one that's in January to release their schedule. I need to get days requested off from work! It drives me crazy when those big destination meets take forever to get the schedules out. They know that people are coming from all over the country. I'm going to...
We compete in several different states, so for us scoring is always changing. But I have found that even if the scores are .5 different the placements are usually close to the same. So a girl who competed in one state and won beam with a 9.3 could go to a different state the next weekend and win...
L7 - 4th season competing.
I always go. We divide and conquer too. DH usually attends one meet. Either he is working or even if he is off, one of the other 3 have something going on.
Siblings only attend the home meet, because they are free labor. They are very much over it and have no...
Starbucks gift cards are always a big hit here! Fuzzy socks, basic hair ties (cause really you can never have too many!), itunes/google gift card, and any of the other ideas you mentioned all sound good.
Parent jealousy is real. I have dealt with it and still do. But really if I let it bug me, then it is just as much my issue as theirs, if that makes sense. When I get comments like "wow, your daughter is really good" or my favorite "I've never seen her fall before" I try to ignore them and just...