flipandtwist
Coach
My gym has always done a unique gymnastics program. It's AGA,a very relaxed competitive program. Gymnastics start off with their own individiual routines, and are put into levels based on scores, not skills. I just completed my fourth season and made it up to "Senior 10," (the levels go jr 1-10 then sr 7-10, then pre-elite, jr elite, sr elite) but if I was in USAG I'd be a level 7 at best, but probably a level 6.
So a little back story before I get to the main issue:
2 years ago, the original owner/team coach retired. He sold the gym to a cheer gym, but the gymnastics program was allowed to stay. We got a new absolutely amazing coach, and kept one of the old ones. This year we tried to have one USAG team, but keep the AGA team for all that wanted too. It didn't really work. At the beginning of the season, our coach was the one to register us for meets, but he was too late register us for one of the meets because he is really busy. He was coaching 3 teams at the time. AGA, USAG, and a high school team. So that job was handed to our receptionist. We also have a boys team (USAG) and she handled them as well.
After our competition ended, our reception decided to throw it out there that we should switch to USAG, because it is much easier to register for USAG. She knows nothing about USAG/AGA as she has only been in a cheerleading environment.
Then our owner(cheerleading coach) who also has never really been in our program started to consider it. He used to be a USAG coach, but he doesn't know much about AGA. He went to a total of 1/2 of a session at our state meet. No more.
So then a coach that helped coach the team for a total of 4 practices, went out to say he hated AGA, when he has also never been to an AGA meet, never coached an AGA team besides our 4 practices, and he has the right to say he hates it when our entire team doesn't want to switch.
So then our coach, somebody I fully trust and look up to, told some parents he doesn't want to coach USAG because he'd have to be much harder on us. But then, whenever the other coach said he hated AGA, our coach said that he hated it too.
We don't know which side he actually is on, and we don't know what to do.
Me and my teammates/ their parents are very passionate about staying in AGA. The parents are having a meeting on Tuesday, about this, but we don't know how open the option is.
Sorry if that was hard to follow, but I don't know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
So a little back story before I get to the main issue:
2 years ago, the original owner/team coach retired. He sold the gym to a cheer gym, but the gymnastics program was allowed to stay. We got a new absolutely amazing coach, and kept one of the old ones. This year we tried to have one USAG team, but keep the AGA team for all that wanted too. It didn't really work. At the beginning of the season, our coach was the one to register us for meets, but he was too late register us for one of the meets because he is really busy. He was coaching 3 teams at the time. AGA, USAG, and a high school team. So that job was handed to our receptionist. We also have a boys team (USAG) and she handled them as well.
After our competition ended, our reception decided to throw it out there that we should switch to USAG, because it is much easier to register for USAG. She knows nothing about USAG/AGA as she has only been in a cheerleading environment.
Then our owner(cheerleading coach) who also has never really been in our program started to consider it. He used to be a USAG coach, but he doesn't know much about AGA. He went to a total of 1/2 of a session at our state meet. No more.
So then a coach that helped coach the team for a total of 4 practices, went out to say he hated AGA, when he has also never been to an AGA meet, never coached an AGA team besides our 4 practices, and he has the right to say he hates it when our entire team doesn't want to switch.
So then our coach, somebody I fully trust and look up to, told some parents he doesn't want to coach USAG because he'd have to be much harder on us. But then, whenever the other coach said he hated AGA, our coach said that he hated it too.
We don't know which side he actually is on, and we don't know what to do.
Me and my teammates/ their parents are very passionate about staying in AGA. The parents are having a meeting on Tuesday, about this, but we don't know how open the option is.
Sorry if that was hard to follow, but I don't know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.