Girl’s Team

Highlights and Accomplishments

  • Recognized as a Junior Olympic National Team Training Center in 2002
  • Head Coach Heather Schnelzer was named Texas Coach of the Year and Region III Coach of the Year in 2006
  • Since 2001 fourteen team members have received full collegiate scholarships for gymnastics

Please note that our team program is by invitation only. All new team members are required to have a one week evaluation scheduled by appointment at the discretion of the head coach. Please call for more information.

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Competitive Levels

Level 2:  This is a compulsory only level.  Athletes must be 4 years old to compete.  Competitions include invitational and District meets.  There are no qualifications for this level.  Gymnasts may participate in any competition.

Levels 3:  This is a compulsory only level.  Athletes must be 5 years old to compete.  Competitions include invitational and District meets.  There are no qualifications for this level. Gymnasts may participate in any competition.

Level 4:  This is a compulsory only level.  Texas has one of the largest and strongest Level 4 programs in the USA.  Not all States offer a competitive Level 4 program.  Athletes must be six years old in order to compete.  Competitions include invitationals, district qualifiers, District Championships, and South StateChampionships.

Level 5:  This is a compulsory only level.  Athletes who enter this level for the first time must be proficient at Levels 1 – 4 in order to register and compete.  Competitions include invitationals, district qualifiers, District Championships, South State Championships, and State.

Level 6:  This is a compulsory only level.  It is the highest level of compulsory routines (Compulsory routines are routines that have been set by USAG and the every athlete in the competition must perform the same routine.)  Competitions include invitationals, district qualifiers, District Championships, South State Championships, and State.

Level 7:  This is considered the first step in optional competition. Athletes create their own routines but must include certain compulsory elements.  Competitions include invitationals and State. Qualification:  Score is determined by the State board and may be different every year.

Level 8:  Gymnasts compete optional routines only.  This level has restrictions on difficulty and has modified rules with easier requirements than Levels 9 or 10.  Competitions include invitationals, State and Regionals. Qualifications:  State score is determined by State board and may change every year.  Qualification to Regionals will be by percentage with usually the top 40-50 from the entire State meet qualifying to the Regional meet.  The top eight athletes at the State meet will represent Texas at Regionals as part of the Texas Team.

Level 9:  Gymnasts compete optional routines only. Competitions include invitationals, State, Regional and Western Nationals.  This level has modified rules with easier requirements than Level 10. Qualifications:  A 32.00AA is required for State.  At State, the athlete must score a 34.00AA to advance to Regionals.  At Regionals, a percentage of each age group will advance to Nationals.  The percentage is determined by the numbers in each age group from all the regions.

Level 10:  Gymnasts compete optional routines only.  This is the highest level in the USAG JO program.  Competitions include invitationals, State, Regional and National. Athletes who place high enough in the AA at Nationals will be considered JO National Team members. Qualifications:  A score of 32.00AA is required to compete at the State meet. At the State meet the athlete must score a 34.00AA to qualify to Regionals.  At Regionals, the top 7 athletes in each age group will advance to Nationals.

Elite:  This is the top level in Gymnastics.  Less than 1% of the athletes in USAG will compete at this level.  Gymnasts compete in Regional, National and International competitions.  The USA National team, as well as the Olympic team, is selected from this level.  A gymnast must be 12 years old to compete in the International Elite Division. Qualifications:  The gymnast must pass the elite testing at an elite competition.  After passing the elite testing, the gymnast must achieve a score in optionals to move on to National competitions.  From the National competitions, athletes try to qualify to Classics and Championships of the USA (International program) FIG rules are used for this competition – not JO rules!

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