It’s leos and leos only at our gym for the team kids (including the non competitive pre-team kids all the way through L10). No shorts or leggings. They can wear leggings and a warm up jacket for just that, warming up. As soon as warm up is done and they start actual skills, the warm ups have to come off. Everyone does this, it’s just the expectation and to my knowledge, there hasn’t been any issues with it.
That said, my daughter has terrible eczema and sometimes she gets really bad flare ups on the backs of her legs. If this happens, she does have to wear full length leggings. She hates it because she says it’s hot (and also she’s the only one, which I suspect is the real reason she doesn’t like it). But there is simply no choice when this happens... it’s either leggings at practice or stay home, doctor’s orders, because it’s a staph infection waiting to happen. Her skin gets absolutely raw, with open blister-like abrasions and flaky/peeling dry skin when this happens, and she can’t be rolling around in dirt, chalk, other people’s sweat, etc like that. Luckily, this has only happened a few times where it’s gotten that bad, but her coaches are really understanding about it. What can you do? With this Rx cream (that costs $200 ), it will clear in about 2 weeks, and she just has to keep her legs covered until it passes.
The rec girls are strongly encouraged to wear leos, and I would say a solid 90-95% do. Some will wear shorts over their leos or wear the biketard type leo. The rest wear shorts/leggings with tanks fitted tees/tanks. Anything that has zippers/buttons/etc or is excessively baggy isn’t allowed. I don’t know if our kids/parents are just good rule followers by nature or if the rules are just enforced well so people don’t really even try to push the boundaries. Regardless, you don’t see any kids wearing stuff that isn’t allowed.
EVERYONE, and I mean everyone, must have their hair pulled up and back away from the face. This goes for the little Tumble Tots all the way through the L10s. Absolutely no hair in your face.