LilHawkMom
Proud Parent
How does your gym handle when only one gymnast is going to a meet? We have are regular meet fees that everyone pays once a yr but my son will be the only one going to future stars (like the tops program that the girls do) and he will probably qualify for Nationals this yr. Last yr because of his age they only go up to regionals and that was a big chunk of $$ and they didn't even charge us the coaches fee because it was a newbie coach who went with him, we just paid meet fee for future stars, fuel, food, and hotel for the coach. And of course what it cost for us to travel along. Now I can only imagine how much it will cost to travel half way across the country and stay there for a week, at least a a couple thousand dollars for coach fee, travel, food, hotel. I really feel this is a rich persons sport at times! We have even thought about not sending him to Nationals even if he qualifies unless he has a super high score and he would be in the top 9 or 18 to make the national team. Does the region or state ever help pay even a small portion for going to something like this?