Question about age

[Kaylaermey93]

So my daughter is 7. She had her first competition today she competed on bronze team. She turns 8 in February of 2025. They had her in group with 8&9 years olds. Is this right? Or should she still be in the group with the 7 year olds?

 

[NYGymfamily]

Age Groups are subjective and change every meet. She might me in a 6/7 age group next time, she could be in a 7/8 an 8/9, it really depends. If the 7 year old age group at this meet was very large, they may have put some girls that were closer to turning 8 in the 8/9 group to balance out the numbers. My DD was in a JR A group one meet and a SR B the next, I wouldn't stress about it.

 

[Kaylaermey93]

Age Groups are subjective and change every meet. She might me in a 6/7 age group next time, she could be in a 7/8 an 8/9, it really depends. If the 7 year old age group at this meet was very large, they may have put some girls that were closer to turning 8 in the 8/9 group to balance out the numbers. My DD was in a JR A group one meet and a SR B the next, I wouldn't stress about it.

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.