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UGH. Ever since the olympics the gym has been crazy. And the classes are HUGE. Its horrible. Last night dd who is 5 years old had 10 kids in her class. When that many show up they take one of the junior coaches and kind of split up the class. But then dd gets stuck with a junior coach who has...

Ok. I've been coaching at the YMCA for almost 2 years now, and competing for 7. Our levels go: girls level 1-4, then pretema, then team 3 and so on. So a little girl (6 yo) showed up for team 3-5 practice last week. We asked what level she was and she thought she was a level 2. Assuming the...

Last year at my dd's level 10 state meet she "crunched" her wrist on vault. She should have said something to her coaches at the time but didn't and continued on to compete in her last two events. I took her for an x-ray the following day and it was negative. Her coach, who is also a Dr. of...

Hi. I haven't posted in a while - there has been alot going on. My DD handed in her resignation from team this Monday. :( She is 12 and has been in the sport since age 4. She is a second year level 7 practicing 20 hrs a week for the last 2 years. She has had a phenomenal year with most all...

I am so proud of my dd. She was offered a spot in a new group that the gym is forming called "Stars Fast-Track", where they work extra on strength, conditioning and new skills and they're planning on forming teams in a year from this group. She was one of eight chosen! But, unfortunatly we...