My daughter coaches HS cheer and an 8th grader who does AS with her could of “petitioned/applied” to do HS if she wanted.
We have a group who was talking about this and jokingly said that the oldest on a junior team could pick up the kindergarten teammate and drive her to practice. Anyone who doesn't see a flaw to this age grid is either idiotic or has ulterior motives.
I left middle school 15 minutes early to make it to my JV practice; the MS principal had to sign off on this. We have one middle school across the yard from the high school, and one in a different town. There were five other eighth graders in cheer along with me (3 on JV, 3 on Varsity) that year. I was the only one from the “far” middle school, so the rest just walked across the fields and left about 5 minutes early, when HS practice was around when middle school ends. High school ends about an hour before middle school in my district. There was probably about 20 kids from my middle school and 5 or less from the other who were on a JV/V sport as an eigthth grader. But the year I was on a HS sport in middle school was the last year they allowed it, and now they only have “special exceptions” for when they can’t fill a JV team. It can work if the district makes it. It’s very common in the surrounding districts also. We never had 7th graders on the HS teams, they were on the MS teams along with the majority of 8th graders.
This was my daughter this year too, she was 11 then 12 on a S5 because they wanted her to fly but all of her friends were on the J5 team. It was hard because though they were a good group of kids, they were mostly 15-18 and were not remotely her peer group. She made the best of it, but is desperately hoping for J5 or J6 this year.
Our HS doesn’t allow MS kids. It’s also the only sport where squads are broken down by grade level. Freshman - freshman squad only, JV - 10 & 11, Varsity - 11 & 12 only. Other sports at the school a freshman can be picked for varsity
This was exactly how my highschool was.
The high school my daughter will go to is a free for all. No freshman team. 7&8 graders can cheer jv not varsity football but they can compete.
As a freshman you can be on varsity but only if you compete. My daughter doesn’t want to compete so as a freshman she will be jv even though in 6 grade she already has the dead mat skills for varsity.
what skills does your varsity require for tumbling? Ours is tucks and above, preferably layouts and fulls. It's very annoying because i can't do hs, even though i have the skills. Not complaining, because i LOVE all-star cheer, but I wish I could do both
Around here it would be really weird to have MS kids on HS teams, except maybe in the very rural areas. The HS I went to and CP will probably be going to required a standing tuck when I went there, and had no shortage of HS students talented enough trying out. AS has exploded since then and I'd expect the talent pool has grown.
