Parents Team Size?

[notagymnast]

Hi all! My question is about team sizes.

• How many athletes are on your child's team (per level)?
  • JO or Xcel.
• Does your gym have a cap/max amount of athletes per team?
  • Is the cap strict? How do they handle situations where a gymnast is ready to move up but there is no 'room' on the next level.

Trying to get a grasp for what the norm is for the sport/most gyms.

 

[Mthegymqueen]

We are a bigger gym. We have 1 (preteam), 2 (split comp and preteam), 3-4, 6-10, xcel silver (preteam), gold, platinum, and diamond, + boys team. Here is a rough estimate of how many of each level we have

1 - only 1 girl
2 - 17 on team, + 20ish? girls preteam level 2
3 - 10
4 - 11
6 - 10
7 - 6
8 - 9
9 - 2
10 - 1
XS - 13?
XG - 8
XP - 10
XD - 4
Boys - 7? (1 level 6, the rest are level 4)

We don't have a max cap of athletes per team

 

[Dahlialover]

Hi all! My question is about team sizes.

• How many athletes are on your child's team (per level)?
  • JO or Xcel.
• Does your gym have a cap/max amount of athletes per team?
  • Is the cap strict? How do they handle situations where a gymnast is ready to move up but there is no 'room' on the next level.

Trying to get a grasp for what the norm is for the sport/most gyms.

I have a boy and our gym has 4 multilevel training groups, which are currently divided up as follows: level 3, bronze, & silver; level 3, 4 & gold; level 4 & 5; levels 5-10. The goal is to keep the coach to athlete ratio around 1:12 with the younger boys having slightly smaller groups and the older boys having slightly larger groups. The boys who train with the next level up are usually older, more advanced, or trying to match an older sibling’s training schedule. No one is ever held back just because of a lack of room in the next training group. Kids compete whatever level is appropriate and the gym shuffles around the training groups to accommodate everyone as well as they can. The gym serves the needs of the kids not the other way around! It’s really not that hard for an organized coach to accommodate multiple levels in a single group. My son’s current group has 15 kids in 5 different levels and it’s no problem.