Question about age

[3rd_time_around]

Her coach told me it’s because of her age she turns 8 in February. She was the only 7 year old in the 8&9 group. But if she would have been in her age group she would have placed at the top. They put my kid at youth A. When she should have been in child C with all the other 7 year olds. When at the beginning on the meet she did floor and it was after vault they actually started scoring her. I had to get the coaches attention that hey why is my kid not being scored. She wasn’t even on the scoreking site until the end of the meet. I’m very upset. They put my kid in an age group she didn’t even belong in she didn’t even place at all. Let me also tell you it was her own gym that hosted this event. I’m pretty upset over all of this.

She WAS in her age group. Age groups are not standard across all meets, it's according to how many entrants there are in the meet at her level. They usually divide all entrants evenly into age groups. For instance, there are 60 kids in the session, so they divide them by 4 to get 15 in each age group. The first 15, starting from the youngest, are the first age group, the next 15 are the next age group, and so on. Girls with birthdays 1 week apart can be in different age groups at one meet, and the same age group at another.