- Jan 15, 2023
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Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Despite a thriving Xcel team making up over half the team, our head coach/gym owner seems to think we our ‘less than’ for being xcel. We our discouraged from attending states and regionals with high fees, given less of her attention, and given different, cheaper leos. Our level 1s got the long sleeved rhinestoned leos while our golds received the short sleeved sequined ones. She refers to us as recreational. She has actively used xcel as an insult ‘If you want to act like that, go be xcel and play around.’ That group was a mixed group, with the hardest working gymnasts being xcel. She only gets excited about xcel gymnasts when she thinks she can get them to move to Dev. The main coach, and most of the others don’t share this veiw, which is why I stick around, but it’s still extremely frustrating and insulting.