WAG Summer Gymnastics Jobs in Europe (or Australia?)

[josie55]

My L10 daughter is a senior in high school and D1 commit. She found out that her college's summer program isn't happening, so has many months of an unplanned summer ahead of her before starting college. She would like an adventure, but something that isn't the full summer and that will still allow her to stay conditioned and able to do some gymnastics (even though she won't need to do full time training all summer long, for once.)

So we came up with the idea of maybe working at a summer camp abroad or do a short-term coaching job in Europe. There are summer camps in the US that have gymnastics, but the overnight camps that we've found all want five weeks or more, which feels too long for her to be out of the gym. Daycamps in the US don't feel like much of an adventure. She has EU citizenship, which might help? I don't know how labor laws work in Australia but maybe that would be an option. She does not speak another language (though she knows ASL.)

Any ideas?

 

[JessSyd]

Australia would take a significant amount of organising.

We do offer working holiday visas to tourists who want to pick up casual work here to fund their holiday, but I don’t know if the USA is one of the eligible countries. If she has an EU passport it is likely to be easier.

A temporary work visa is available, but for those you have to prove that you have temporary project work that can’t be recruited for locally.

But even if a working visa is attainable, gymnastics camps aren’t really a thing here, and your summer is our winter anyway. She’d have to get work in a gym. Most gyms are looking for coaches, but to coach she’d have to be accredited with gymnastics Australia which wouldn’t be impossible (the first part of beginner coach training is online) but is a process that is too intensive and expensive for a short holiday, and she’d have to pay for her own accommodation, which would be very expensive!

An Australian gym owner here might have more information - I know that gyms here do use working holiday makers, but I don’t know how they manage the accreditation issue.

 

[Gymgirl84]

In my country in Europe, gyms close usually the month of august. In July there are some gymnastics camps, but not sure if there are many job offers for those. They are more the day camps not the ones with sleepover.

 

[Carabistouille]

For France, there are some gymnastics camp, but that would require that:
* she speaks fluent French,
* she is 18,
* she has some kind of diploma/certification to prove that she can coach.

So I would say that it won't be an option.

 

[Pineapple_Lump]

If she is under 18 -Perhaps a round-a-bout way would be to stay with a gym family as a billet, training and volunteer assisting with classes. This would require developing a relationship with a gym.

I know gyms in Australia have had visiting coaches at times. You can only ask.
You could post here for advice and options if an Australian winter isn't an issue.

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[JessSyd]

That's actually a great idea. And winter in, say, Sydney, is spectacular.