** COMPETITION INFORMATION **

 

                                    Click Here for FINAL SCHEDULE

 

MEET:                       2008 LEVELS 6-ELITE TEXAS STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

                                   

DATE:                        Saturday & Sunday – March 29th-30th, 2008 

                                   

SITE:                          LD Bell High School

                                    1601 Brown Trail

                                    Hurst, TX  76054 

 

HOSTS:                      Sim’s Scholarship Foundation Committee 

 

COMPETITION

DIRECTOR:              Jerit Pogue               Home:            (281) 573-0801

                                                                    Email:            gymmantx75@yahoo.com      Cell:            (281)639-2206

                                                                    Fax:            (281) 573-0801

 

JUDGES:                   Two judges per event (Levels 9, 10 & Elite) – Six events competing at once.

One judge per event (Levels 6, 7 & 8) - Six events competing at once.

                                   

ENTRY FEES:            Individual Entry Fee:   $70.00 per Individual Athlete

                                    Entry Fee includes:        $1.00 per athlete to Texas Sims Scholarship Fund

                                                                        $1.00 per athlete to Texas State Fund

$1.00 per athlete to USA National Gymnastics Foundation Men’s Scholarship Fund

                                                                                                             

Team Entry Fee:            No Team Fees for any Level!  All Team Entry Fees are also included with your individual entries. 

                                   

All Entry Forms must be typed (required by State Competition Board), Official Texas State Entry Form must be used (yes, they can be computer generated) and all Entry Fees must be paid IN FULL at the time your club’s Entries are received!  (One Entry Fee check per club please).

 

                                    Make all checks payable to:            Sims Scholarship.

 

                                    * IMPORTANT - Mail all entries to:            State Meet Entry

                                                                                                            C/O Jerit Pogue

                                                                                                            13907 Oakwood Ln.

                                                                                                            Sugar Land, TX  77478

 

DEADLINE:              All entries MUST BE RECEIVED by Monday, March 10, 2008.

* No late entries will be accepted without the $10.00 per athlete Late Fee assessment

   AND permission from the Texas USAG State Director.

                                    * You may call to confirm the arrival of your entries.


 

FORMAT:                 IMPORTANT INFORMATION:  Competition will be a Modified Capital Cup Format.  After speaking to many coaches, the expressed preference is to keep this format of Warm-Up/Compete for each event in order to keep their athletes focused.  For sessions with a large number of athletes per squad, the squads will be split in half.  The first half of the squad will Warm-Up/Compete, then the second half of the squad will Warm-Up/Compete.  This format will give the athletes in the last half of the squad a chance to compete closer to the time they warm up. 

 

This will be an INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM oriented competition!  You will pick the order of competitors within your team(s) PRIOR to each event. 

 

                                    Top Three (3) individual scores from each age group on each event will be counted

for a Team Score at each Class level. 

 

AGE GROUPS:            Level 6 -                       8-9, 10-11, 12-13

                                    Level 7 -                       10-11, 12-13

Level 8 -                          12-14, 15-18

                                    Level 9 -                       12-13

                                    Level 10 -                  14-15, 16-18  

                                    Elite -                           18 & Up

 

TENTATIVE

SCHEDULE:             CLICK HERE TO see attached complete FINAL schedule.

 

You may call Jerit Pogue at (281) 639-2206 for an update and/or confirmation of the Final Competition Schedule beginning Monday, March 17th, 2008.  The Final Competition Schedule will be posted on the Men’s Texas State website and the Men’s Region III website on Monday, March 17th, 2008.

 

 

                                    Coaches:  Please remind your individual Team parents not to call for competition times.

                                    We will not give the information to them because of the large amount of telephone

time required.  The Organizing Committee will make sure each gymnastics club that has athletes competing are notified and that all correct and necessary competition information is received.

 

COACHES

MEETING:                There will be coaches meetings prior to each session during the General Stretch time of

                                    each session.  All packets, numbers, rotation sheets, etc. will be handed out at that

                                    time.  Coaches will not receive their packets if ALL Entry Fees have not been paid in full

                                    and/or USAG registration numbers for gymnasts or coaches are missing.

 

COMPETITION

AREA:                        Only team coaches, competing athletes, judges, and meet officials will be allowed on

the competition floor.  Please remind your team parents and non-competing team members of this rule.

 

SCORES:                   Scores from each session will be posted following the completion of each session.

 

AWARDS:                 There will be Team Awards (by Class Level and Age Division), Individual Event Awards (by Class Level and Age Division) and All-Around Awards (by Class Level and Age Division) presented to the athletes in each of the competition Divisions.  Individual and All-Around awards will follow the Texas and USAG Rules and Policies guidelines.                         

                                   

ADMISSION:            Admission will be $8.00 for Adults and $4.00 for Children (12 years old and under) for each day of competition.  This Admission Fee schedule is set up by the USAG Texas State Board for Men’s Gymnastics. 

 

CONCESSIONS:            Concessions will be available at all session for your convenience.

 

VIDEO

CAMERAS:               Due to a shortage of electrical outlets, only VCR’s with battery packs can be used in

                                    the gym.  Please alert your parents with VCR’s.

 

EQUIPMENT:           AAI Apparatus ( PH, Vault, P Bar).

                                    Speith (Floor, Rings, High Bar)

                                   

 

T-SHIRTS:                 CLICK HERE FOR T-SHIRT ORDER FORM   2008 Texas State Championship Logo T-Shirts will be available at the competition site in Child Large through Adult Extra Large sizes.  Only Pre-Ordered Shirts will be available for sale.  The price for all Pre-Ordered shirts is $15.00/shirt.

 

                                    (Please see T-Shirt Order Form attached with this Competition Information). 

 

COACHES

ATTIRE:                    Please be reminded to adhere to the Texas USAG Men’s rules and guidelines for professional coaching attire.  There will be no jeans, cut-off shorts, or sandals allowed!  Collared shirts or Team T-Shirts are of course permitted.

 

 HOTEL

INFORMATION:     Main Host Hotel for the Texas State Championships

 

Hyatt Place Fort Worth/Hurst

                                    1601 Hurst Town Center Dr                                

                                    Hurst, TX  76054                                           Special Rate For The State Championships

                                    (817) 577-3003                                             $109.00 plus Tax

                       

                                   

 

                                    * HOTEL REMINDER:

           

            THE CODE YOU MUST MENTION TO RECEIVE THE SPECIAL RATE FOR THE

            CHAMPIONSHIPS IS:  Gymnastics State Championships

 

YOU MUST INDICATE THE CODE (LISTED ABOVE) WHEN BOOKING YOUR

RESERVATIONS AND YOU ARE WITH THE MEN’S TEXAS STATE

GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE SPEICAL RATE

LISTED ABOVE FOR ANY OF THE ROOMS BLOCKED FOR THE COMPETITION!