USASF & IASF 2012-13 Age Grids

May 17, 2012

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The USASF and IASF has released the Age Grids for 2012-13. Noted Changes to the USASF version include:

Youth L5 and Youth Restricted have been combined.
Junior Coed is only listed for L5.
Senior L1-4.2 have a minimum age of 10. Senior L5 remained at 12.
International L5 divisions now have a minimum age of 15, up from 14.

Open Level 4 (17 Years and Older, 1-15 Males, 5-24 Members)

An event producer must request a “waiver” from the USASF to offer this “trial” division for the 2012-13 season. This is a non-sanctioned division that does not count toward any Cheerleading Worlds bid. Event producers are requested to complete at USASF “waiver” to offer this division.

All Star Prep

An event producer must request a “waiver” from the USASF to offer “trial” divisions for the 2012-13 season. These are non-sanctioned divisions that do not count toward any Cheerleading Worlds bid. Event producers are requested to complete a USASF “waiver” to offer this division. The following criteria must be met in order to compete in these divisions:

Maximum routine length is 2 minutes
At any given event, an athlete may not crossover between teams competing in a standard division and teams competing in a ‘Prep’ division (and vice versa).

In addition to the criteria listed above, Event Producers may apply their own additional unique criteria when defining eligibility requirements for these divisions. Event Producers must declare what criteria they used to differentiate their ‘Prep’ divisions from the standard USASF divisions (ex: for half year teams, for teams not allowed to practice more than 2 hours a week).

Small Gyms

The USASF is still evaluating options to address the concerns of Small Gyms (75 athletes or less).

USASF Cheer Age Grid & IASF Cheer Age Grid

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5 responses to “USASF & IASF 2012-13 Age Grids”

Tara

May 29, 2012

Any news on the age grid for small gyms? I totally understand the reasoning for the changes, but keeping my fingers crossed for an exception to this rule. For small gyms who don’t have enough younger girls to make a higher level team, it keeps us at a lower level because of age.

Thanks!

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1. Andre
  
  May 29, 2012
  
  I haven’t heard anything, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a topic at the Doral meeting this week.
  
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Brandi

June 21, 2012

Have you heard anything about small gym exemptions yet? We don’t know what to do with one of our girls because she misses the cut off for senior team by 25 days!

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1. Andre
  
  June 21, 2012
  
  I haven’t heard anything, but I’m not expecting to hear anything. I don’t think they’ll have a different set of guidelines for gyms of different sizes.
  
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Laura

July 1, 2012

The age grid says that the team level will be based on the age of the oldest performer. We want to have 2 competitive hip hop teams – a youth and a junior. However, the oldest performer on the junior team is 12. Does that force our junior team to compete as a youth team and therefore result in our having 2 youth teams? Also, where the rules say that a competitor cannot crossover from one program to another in the same competition – does that refer to hip hop not crossing over to cheer? Or, say, a girl on a scholastic team not being able to crossover to also compete on an all-star team at the same competition. Looking forward to any help you can provide!

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