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Our only out of state meet is Y Nationals (and this year, it was actually in state). L3+ can go to the meet IF they qualify AND if they want to go. They don't have to decide until mid-March and the meet is in mid to late June.
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I'm a little late, but I wanted to say "WOW!" That any gym would skip the state meet for any level and then say it wasn't a big deal. If it's not a big deal, then why do they have teams at those levels?
Anyway, we used to have 1 Meet per season that was out of state for all compulsory levels, but they stopped doing that about 6 years ago, and I am glad. It was a big expense and caused missed school, etc, and was hard on the family. But the meet was always just 1 State away and within driving distance.
All our meets the gymnasts are expected to attend barring illness or injury, so there's no opting out.
I hope you can find a great place with coaches who respect the gymnasts on every level.
I think it's very selfish of the coaches to prioritize this travel meet over states!
States are pretty important for boys. For compulsory, son had to attend a certain amount of locals and their gym also attended out of state meets within their region. For optionals, we don’t do locals so everything is invitational usually within the region and a couple of flying meets. Never heard of boys missing states to go to a different invitational, but our schedule revolves around states/regionals/nationals
1. States are pretty important for boys.
2. Never heard of boys missing states to go to a different invitational, but our schedule revolves around states/regionals/nationals
I wouldn’t be so quick to call “the coaches” selfish. Head Coach / Owner made the decision. I agree with the others it is highly disrespectful to the athletes.
They don’t compete Xcel states either? Do they do a whole season, or no full seasons until optionals?Our gym has started doing a 'one and done' test-out on compulsory levels. So we don't do states anyway. The girls will compete xcel until they are ready to test out of levels 4 and 5. When we did do compulsory, we did go out of state for one meet but it wasn't very far.