Xcel Program Information
Xcel Regional Championships, May 19 & 20, 2012
CCGI will be hosting the Xcel Regional Championships at the Santa Rosa Rancheria Community Center in Lemoore, CA
address 16085 Jersey Ave, Lemoore CA 93245. Host hotels are The Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino (866)4Palace.
Lemoore is a 3 hour drive from L.A. and most of northern California, 5 hours from Reno or Las Vegas, 10 hours to Arizona or Utah
Fly into Fresno airport (FAT)
Xcel updates - Region 1
http://gymcats.com./documents/routines/xcelgirls.pdf
Wow – what an exciting region 1 congress for Xcel.
Here is a summary of some of what happened over this past weekend’s events:
o Xcel will hold a regional championships in May in Northern California
o The entire USAG Xcel program will be nationalized with the new quadrenium (2013-14 season)
o Xcel rules have been clarified and more judging guidelines implemented (on the sheets by level all new changes are listed in red- so coaches who have previously coached these levels can easily see what is new when they are constructing routines)
o Judges cheat sheets are on the website so you can find information by event instead of by level.
o We have learned that Xcel is spreading like wildfire and has had a huge response from so many clubs in Region 1, that we are very encouraged about the evolution of this program.
o I, Cassie Rice, as Region 1’s regional representative of Xcel will be headed to Houston, TX in October to represent Region 1’s rules in the formation of national rules that will begin in June 2013.
Here are the links to all this information. http://www.gymcats.com/xcel.html
NEW RULES (by level) changes highlighted in red
New rules by event for judges All events together (website has individual events listed as well)
A great group of coaches/judges and administrators got together to discuss Xcel for Boys – everyone agreed that we are in need of a program like this for boys even more than for girls and that it would help broaden the base of boys participating in gymnastics.
If you are willing to give your 2 cents to Dennis Mcintyre and Dusty Ritter regarding USAG starting a program like this for boys, please email them as soon as you can. We can create this from us pushing from the bottom up if we tell them how much we need a place for boys to participate and have more success than the J.O. program.
Dennis McIntyre’s email is dmcin@usagym.org
And Dusty Ritter’s email is dustyritter@gmail.com
We’re live on the USAG website!!
http://usa-gymnastics.org/pages/women/pages/prepop.htm
Here is a comparison of J.O. vs. Xcel for girls posted 2.15.11
XCel Updates posted 12.29.10
Xcel Rules posted 12.29.10
The Xcel Optional Program is designed to offer abroad-based, affordable competitive experience outside the traditional Jr. Olympic Program to attract and retain a diverse group of athletes. The program gives an opportunity for:
http://usa-gymnastics.org/PDFs/Women/Rules/PREP_Optional.pdf
Click here for new rules: http://www.gymcats.com/documents/routines/prepoptnew.pdf
Looking for some ideas! Click on the link below for basic skills and elemet (these are just guidelines to help coaches form routines) http://www.gymcats.com/documents/routines/xcelcommonskills.pdf
Go Region 1! We want to develop and build the strongest XCEL program in the country!
CCGI will be hosting the Xcel Regional Championships at the Santa Rosa Rancheria Community Center in Lemoore, CA
address 16085 Jersey Ave, Lemoore CA 93245. Host hotels are The Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino (866)4Palace.
Lemoore is a 3 hour drive from L.A. and most of northern California, 5 hours from Reno or Las Vegas, 10 hours to Arizona or Utah
Fly into Fresno airport (FAT)
Xcel updates - Region 1
http://gymcats.com./documents/routines/xcelgirls.pdf
Wow – what an exciting region 1 congress for Xcel.
Here is a summary of some of what happened over this past weekend’s events:
o Xcel will hold a regional championships in May in Northern California
o The entire USAG Xcel program will be nationalized with the new quadrenium (2013-14 season)
o Xcel rules have been clarified and more judging guidelines implemented (on the sheets by level all new changes are listed in red- so coaches who have previously coached these levels can easily see what is new when they are constructing routines)
o Judges cheat sheets are on the website so you can find information by event instead of by level.
o We have learned that Xcel is spreading like wildfire and has had a huge response from so many clubs in Region 1, that we are very encouraged about the evolution of this program.
o I, Cassie Rice, as Region 1’s regional representative of Xcel will be headed to Houston, TX in October to represent Region 1’s rules in the formation of national rules that will begin in June 2013.
Here are the links to all this information. http://www.gymcats.com/xcel.html
NEW RULES (by level) changes highlighted in red
New rules by event for judges All events together (website has individual events listed as well)
A great group of coaches/judges and administrators got together to discuss Xcel for Boys – everyone agreed that we are in need of a program like this for boys even more than for girls and that it would help broaden the base of boys participating in gymnastics.
If you are willing to give your 2 cents to Dennis Mcintyre and Dusty Ritter regarding USAG starting a program like this for boys, please email them as soon as you can. We can create this from us pushing from the bottom up if we tell them how much we need a place for boys to participate and have more success than the J.O. program.
Dennis McIntyre’s email is dmcin@usagym.org
And Dusty Ritter’s email is dustyritter@gmail.com
We’re live on the USAG website!!
http://usa-gymnastics.org/pages/women/pages/prepop.htm
Here is a comparison of J.O. vs. Xcel for girls posted 2.15.11
XCel Updates posted 12.29.10
Xcel Rules posted 12.29.10
The Xcel Optional Program is designed to offer abroad-based, affordable competitive experience outside the traditional Jr. Olympic Program to attract and retain a diverse group of athletes. The program gives an opportunity for:
- Class students to participate in organized gymnastics events.
- Those athletes who have competed in the USA Gymnastics Jr. Olympic Program and have qualified to Level 7 or above but need a more basic introduction to optional competition.
- Those athletes who have competed in the USA Gymnastics Jr. Olympic Program at the Compulsory level and would like to experience a basic optional program during their "off" season.
- Those athletes who have either "retired" from the Jr. Olympic Program or do not wish to train or compete at Level 7 or 8.
- Athletes not previously involved with USA Gymnastics to enter the program.
http://usa-gymnastics.org/PDFs/Women/Rules/PREP_Optional.pdf
Click here for new rules: http://www.gymcats.com/documents/routines/prepoptnew.pdf
Looking for some ideas! Click on the link below for basic skills and elemet (these are just guidelines to help coaches form routines) http://www.gymcats.com/documents/routines/xcelcommonskills.pdf
Go Region 1! We want to develop and build the strongest XCEL program in the country!
