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[quote=Anonymous]There aren't enough other gymnastics gyms in the area to absorb the displaced gymnasts at all levels from Aerials/Tigers program in Northern Virginia (see letters to the Board from the other gyms)... The flip side is that there are gymnasts from closer in Fairfax County that would pay out of county fees to participate... effectively the Board is making a scarce opportunity scarcer, rather that thinking creatively to make the program net $0 expense vs. revenue.

VHSL State Champions in beam at Yorktown and McLean HS have come from the Aerials program. Those two schools along with W-L, Wakefield, Marshall, Madison, Langley, and Annandale have had gymnasts come thru over the past 10 years... team that routine compete against each other for the Northern Region title.  That doesn't include multiple competitors at the USA Gymnastics Virginia State Meet for Levels 6 on up to 10.  The Level 8-9-10 meet was this past weekend with all of this junk hanging these kids' minds. (Grrrrr...)

Point being that this is a catastrophic impact to one of the most successful gymnastics programs in Northern Virginia over decades at the team and individual level.

The grown ups need to better, we should expect it of them... thus far they haven't been.

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