- Apr 2, 2011
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our gym has more higher aged athletes (with an j3 j4 s2 s3 s4 and s5 ) and only like 2 younger teams
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Hmmm.. tiny- 13/14 M2- 26/28 Y5, J2, S2 and SO5 I think are all competing as small, but close to full, so between 20 & 24 I guess... Not too many crossovers either.What does your gym statistics look like? How many tiny, mini, youth, junior, and seinor kids do you have?
We were very top heavy the first season (09-10) that we were at our gym. I think we had 12 teams. 2 tiny, 2 mini 1, mini 3, youth 3, junior 5, 2 senior 5's, IOC 5 and IAG 5. I know I am missing one, I'm pretty sure it was another youth team- level 4 I think. Those numbers include two exhibition teams (tiny & mini)All these level 1's help create a smaller subset of level 2's. And so on and so forth until you reach the apex of level 5's.
The economy. The financial boom of the mid 2000's is over, and people are less willing to drop a few grand per year per kid on cheerleading. I think there are certainly more gyms out there, but they are competing for a finite number of kids who do have the parents with some extra cash. I think that you will see less emerging good, really fantastic small gyms due to the athletes leaving for the established, successful gyms with teams that place top 5 at Worlds.But I have heard from quite a few people that cheerleading is getting smaller. To me I am thinking that means there are less level 1's and less mini's getting involved. So seeing the makeup of peoples gyms might help give a little clarity to that.
For my gymnastic people: do gymnastic gyms tend to look a little like my pyramid model? Levels 1-7 are everywhere (or maybe it is levels 1-5??) but when you get to level 8 you move on from your current gym and go to a higher level gym? Not everyone tries to have an olympic level gym.