- Mar 31, 2010
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I've read some of the other post and another thought came to me. Instead of just having a bottom and top age on senior, why not them on all divisions?
This is what I personally feel like the division should start & stop..
Tiny:3-5
Mini:5-9
Youth:9-12
Junior:10-14
Senior:14-18
I don't know if it will work, but it seems reasonable to me...but i'm just a mom in the cheer world...:)
Some people will take this as more Small Gym Crying, but the reason this is bad and should never be passed is because smaller gyms could not make decent teams this way, larger gyms might even have trouble with it.
As it is now, we have the flexibility to make teams based on skill and age.
If we had narrow age ranges, we are forced to go almost solely on Age unless we have enough kids to fill two or more skill levels per age range which is obviously unlikely if you are a smaller gym
With your proposed ranges I would have to make the following teams
Mini with 21, so now I'm barely large (with kids ranging from can't cartwheel to nearly having a tuck)
Youth with 29, I might could split that into a youth 1 and a youth 2 and bump up the older minis
Jr with 14, I might could bring up some of the older youth kids since there is a 3 year overlap there?
and finally my Senior Team with 5 kids on it (imagine how competitive that team would be)
and I know of plenty of gyms that only have 30 kids ranging from 6 to 17 years old. What are they going to do? have 4 teams of 7 or 8 kids?
and that is why I'm against having bottom Age Caps.