WAG Divisions

[Misunderstood]

This child division stuff is so confusing and at every meet, it’s different.
Sometimes my kid is in Jr A, Jr B or Child A. Even if the meets are back to back and she didn’t have a birthday yet. I always thought it was by age but she has team mates with the same age and sometimes they are together and sometimes they are not. How is this determined ?

 

[GymCAMom]

Birthdays - The breakdown will always differ based on the actual gymnasts at the meet. Sometimes my daughter is in the same division as another teammate and sometimes they aren't. There's an 8.5-month difference between them.

 

[Coach Kate]

This has been discussed before and there have been some good explanations:

K

Parents Question about age

Nov 24, 2024

So my daughter is 7. She had her first competition today she competed on bronze team. She turns 8 in February of 2025. They had her in group with 8&9 years olds. Is this right? Or should she still be in the group with the 7 year olds?

• Kaylaermey93
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[Meet] Age Divisions For Awards

Feb 15, 2025

Hi. My daughter just had her first Xcel bronze competition. I was expecting the age divisions for awards to be something like "8-10" or "7-8", ect. But the division were: Jr A, Jr B, Jr C, Senior A, Senior B. Can someone please explain the ages for each division to me? Thank you

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[JBS]

This child division stuff is so confusing and at every meet, it’s different.
Sometimes my kid is in Jr A, Jr B or Child A. Even if the meets are back to back and she didn’t have a birthday yet. I always thought it was by age but she has team mates with the same age and sometimes they are together and sometimes they are not. How is this determined ?

It's all whatever the meet director wants. Examples below...

• If there are 45 athletes... divide by 3 and get 15 per age group... name them...
  • Child
  • Junior
  • Senior
• If there are 50 athletes... divide by 5 and get 10 per age group... name them...
  • Child A
  • Child B
  • Junior A
  • Junior B
  • Senior
• Same as last example but you can name them different if you want...
  • Junior A
  • Junior B
  • Junior C
  • Senior A
  • Senior B

Now for something like L10 Nationals... it is dictated by USAG and Regionals runs by the same age groups. It's different every year based on the athletes.

 

[ORgymmom]

Ugh, age groups.

In my experience, the one athlete your child is sick of or the teammate with whom they have the biggest rivalry with will always be in their age group forever! My daughter has one teammate whose birthday is a week after hers who she rarely competes against, and other teammates whose birthdays are 3 months and 4 months earlier who she can’t seem to shake off. It’s some weird quirk of how birthdays clumped seasonally in our area. It’s rough when you have teammates with adjacent birthdays and who are always competing against each other, especially if other teammates are always alone in their age group.

 

[raenndrops]

Ugh, age groups.

In my experience, the one athlete your child is sick of or the teammate with whom they have the biggest rivalry with will always be in their age group forever! My daughter has one teammate whose birthday is a week after hers who she rarely competes against, and other teammates whose birthdays are 3 months and 4 months earlier who she can’t seem to shake off. It’s some weird quirk of how birthdays clumped seasonally in our area. It’s rough when you have teammates with adjacent birthdays and who are always competing against each other, especially if other teammates are always alone in their age group.

It’s rough when you have teammates with adjacent birthdays and who are always competing against each other, especially if other teammates are always alone in their age group.

We once had a meet where 2 of our girls with the exact same birthdate were in separate age groups. It just worked best for the equal split ... of course, at our meets, they are usually pretty good at posting the birthdate range for each age group.

Most of the time (all but once in 17 years), the birthdate starting one age group is NOT the same as the ending birthdate of another. But in this case, one of the girls was the oldest in her age group and the other was the youngest in the next age group.

 

[ORgymmom]

We once had a meet where 2 of our girls with the exact same birthdate were in separate age groups. It just worked best for the equal split ... of course, at our meets, they are usually pretty good at posting the birthdate range for each age group.

Most of the time (all but once in 17 years), the birthdate starting one age group is NOT the same as the ending birthdate of another. But in this case, one of the girls was the oldest in her age group and the other was the youngest in the next age group.

That gives me hope!

We have two girls on the team in the same level with the same birthday. The mom of the one who has dominated since level 2 and puts up 38s from the first to last meet of the season is always saying how nice it is that they always have each other. I don’t think the other family agrees! They would be so happy if their birthday was the split.