Anon Optionals bottleneck bad sign?

[Anonymous (1128)]

Is it a bad sign if a small gym has not had a level 10 in ten years and seems to stall at level 9 with a couple of level 9s entering their third or even fourth year of the level? It is a very small gym with only around 10 optionals level 6-9 total. Does this indicate inability to progress gymnasts past that point or more a reflection of a very small gym with a small talent pool to draw from?

 

[Anonymous (3ff2)]

It’s not a great sign if you have a kid hoping to compete level 10 eventually. It sounds like they can’t coach to 10. How do their 9s do?

 

[Anonymous (1128)]

It’s not a great sign if you have a kid hoping to compete level 10 eventually. It sounds like they can’t coach to 10. How do their 9s do?

Decent by their third year
Not great year 1.

 

[Anonymous (03f3)]

How are the level 9s scoring? What are the girls goals who are level 9? do they want to compete 10 or college? If they do and aren't getting to that level, it may be a concern. Our gym lost a lot of the upper level girls with covid and are just now getting back to have levels 8 and 9, and seem to be doing well. My daughter is not focused on college at this point (just going into 6th grade at a level 6), so we are seeing where it goes for now.

 

[Anonymous (1128)]

How are the level 9s scoring? What are the girls goals who are level 9? do they want to compete 10 or college? If they do and aren't getting to that level, it may be a concern. Our gym lost a lot of the upper level girls with covid and are just now getting back to have levels 8 and 9, and seem to be doing well. My daughter is not focused on college at this point (just going into 6th grade at a level 6), so we are seeing where it goes for now.

I think many have college goals but don’t seem to understand how unrealistic it is as 9-11th grade level 9s. There’s a crop of younger gymnasts coming up with college goals though

 

[Anonymous (1128)]

How are the level 9s scoring? What are the girls goals who are level 9? do they want to compete 10 or college? If they do and aren't getting to that level, it may be a concern. Our gym lost a lot of the upper level girls with covid and are just now getting back to have levels 8 and 9, and seem to be doing well. My daughter is not focused on college at this point (just going into 6th grade at a level 6), so we are seeing where it goes for now.

I think many have college goals but don’t seem to understand how unrealistic it is as 9-11th grade level 9s. There’s a crop of younger gymnasts coming up with college goals though

 

[Anonymous (0008)]

The small sample size limits your ability to draw conclusions. Individual gymnasts could stay at level 9 for multiple years for a variety of reasons that are not program specific. What you do know is that your gym does not have a strong level 10 program and they do not have a history of preparing athletes to compete in college. That doesn’t mean they a bad gym, they just are not a big college focused gym.

 

[Anonymous (fa71)]

That would be a red flag to me, I wouldn’t stay if my daughter had college potential / goals.

 

[Anonymous (058d)]

I would move. We made the mistake with my daughter of staying put at a gym that really did not have level 10 coaching capability. There were a variety of other issues and my daughter had a significant injury too. We moved her her senior year, and she got a spot on a college team. However, there just was not enough time to clean up form and technique after years of inconsistent coaching. I just wish we had moved her several years earlier.