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    Parents TOPs National Testing Experience

    Its been about 8 years since we did it so things might have changed a little, and my memory might be a little hazy, but it was over 2 days. One day physical abilities testing and the second day skills testing. If I remember correctly it was maybe a half day worth of time each day so like 3-4...
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    [Meet] Atlanta Centennial Classic

    We have been to that meet several times. For us, just staying in one of the airport hotels there, either the Marriott or the Renaissance is the most convenient. College Park is about a mile walk away that has some neat little restaurants. Depending upon how comfortable you are walking in...
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    Women Same music different routine?

    For what its worth, I believe tiana sumanasekera has used the same floor music for the last 5 years with different choreo There is nothing wrong with doing it, it just depends on the gymnast
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    Anon Gym without a pit

    My thoughts: Can you train high-level gymnastics (elite, L8-10) without a pit? Yes. Is it the optimal training environment? No. There is just no combination of pit pillow, coach oversight, one-day at another gym, etc. that makes training without a pit as good as training in a gym that has a...
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    NCAA Official Visits

    Really its up to you. Most questions have probably been answered via the weekly calls leading up to the visit. Some follow-up with questions or topics that might have been brought up during the calls might be covered during the visit. Like if you brought up FCA during your calls, they may...
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    NCAA Official Visits

    Our visits were during football season. Arrived that Thursday night. Friday morning started early, and went through dinner around 7-8pm. The order of these things might differ from visit to visit, but all had these basic elements: Attend a practice (if youre going off-season not sure how...
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    Parents Official visit offered on first call

    Ya, nothing too unusual to take a couple of days to sort out official visit dates.
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    NCAA Happy June 15th Eve!

    That was from Jada Oliver’s insta
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    NCAA Happy June 15th Eve!

    Good luck to all those that are getting ready to start this crazy, frustrating, fun, tearful, goal reaching, anxiety inducing process. I hope everyone gets the calls they want and maybe a few surprises (in a good way) that they weren't expecting. Remember if you don't get a call/text tomorrow...
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    Women Opinions on floor music?

    Its only 57 sec? The intro is kinda rough, just sounds like the needle plopped in the middle of track. I prefer a bit of a smoother opening. Otherwise, no concern about vocals. The transition about middle works but perhaps could get tweaked a little more for smoothness?
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Who gets designated will be interesting, but I suspect its gong to be locked away somewhere only for coaches to see.
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    Women US Citizen Training in Europe and applying for D1 school scholarship

    Cant say that I do, but this may actually be where some of those recruiting services might really be helpful. Otherwise, its about getting in front of coaches, email, email, email, videos and competition results.
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Its just a matter of the school classifying and reporting the student as designated. The wording in the settlement says it has to be a "Good faith" designation, which essentially is not enforcable unless a school decides to designate the whole team lol.
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    NCAA Over the roster limits? 5 years? timing?

    Well looks like the settlement got approved. Athletes are grandfathered in so roster limits are not really in play until these athletes graduate.
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    Women Identifying and Progressing Talent

    A couple of things. First, so you understand where my perspective is coming from, my daughter's (our) background. She is a L10 DP gymnast who trains in a large established gym. She did go through the TOPs program. She trains in the "elite" group that has a combination of elite and DP...
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