Parents Wrong birth year on USAG registration

[Mbf2013]

My daughter is in her first year of xcel. We’ve had 2 meets and both times I was surprised by which age group she was put in. Today it dawned on me that I should check her USAG registration and turns out her birth year is wrong. Her birthday is the 16th and I accidentally put 2016 as her year. She was born in 2014. I reached out to usag immediately to have it corrected but they’re closed until Tuesday for Veterans Day. Can someone please share any experience they have with this? I’m so nervous that I may have accidentally got her in trouble with usag. She’s competing in silver which is the appropriate level but she’s obviously been placing in the wrong age bracket. The bracket she’s been in has actually been tougher than the one she should have been in so it didn’t help her in anyway as far as medals. I think as long as she’s been judged as a silver this whole time (which she has) then it should be fine but I would love some reassurance.

 

[Coach Kate]

She's not in trouble! Do make sure her coach knows so if USAG doesn't help you on their end, her coach can let other meet directors know. I have definitely been to meets where they kind of manually redid things because a birthday was wrong in USAG.

If it makes you feel any better, we had a parent put their daughter's last name twice so everyone would always say Jane Smith Smith and that's how she was registered, announced at awards, etc.

 

[raenndrops]

She's not in trouble! Do make sure her coach knows so if USAG doesn't help you on their end, her coach can let other meet directors know. I have definitely been to meets where they kind of manually redid things because a birthday was wrong in USAG.

Yep. One year, there was this little girl that was in the OLDEST age group in 2 meets before someone caught that her birthdate had a typo making her 10 years older.
It was caught at our home meet and after awards, we corrected it. We gave her the ribbons she should have had (if they were better than the ones she got). Her coach fixed it for the rest of the meets.