This information should be consistently read on each of the regional pages (the font in red are notes for you and shouldn’t be included)…

 

Eligibility: 

• AAU membership is required

• Gymnasts must be 4 years old

Qualification:

• All participants must compete in their AAU District/State Championship to be eligible to participate.

  • Qualification to District/State Championships is determined by each District.  Refer to your District webpage for qualification information (add hyperlink to redirect to the map/location page for folks to select their district page based on their geographic location).

  • Gymnasts must compete at the same level which they competed in at their qualifying events in their designated districts. 

• Clubs have the option of selecting which Regional Championship location they wish to attend.

Petitioning:

• Athletes may petition to participate if there is not an active AAU District program in your area.  Click here to petition (can we have a button that emails gymnastics@aausports.org with the default subject line reading “Petition to Regionals”)

• If an athlete is unable to participate in their District/State Championship, or if a skill level is not offered, coaches must petition through their District Gymnastics Chair (add a button redirecting them to the district gymnastics chair contact page on website).

Rules: 

• AAU Regional licensed events follow the AAU National Gymnastics Rule Allowances (add link to redirect them to the National Rule Allowances worksheet…currently use this link for now until this is loaded onto the new site- https://image.aausports.org/handbooks/gymnastics/2024AAUGymnasticsAllowances.pdf ).  

Age Groups:

• Athletes in each level will be divided into groups of similar age determined by birthdate, not to exceed more than *24 months 

• Numbers per age division is not to exceed *15 athletes

• * indicates unless otherwise approved by the AAU National Executive Committee

Awards:

• All around awards are provided at 100% for every participant.

• Individual event awards for each level and age group are provided for each session at 50% plus 1 medal distribution.

• All American Award recognition is awarded to the gymnast with the highest All-Around score in each session, for each level, regardless of age.

• Regional Team Member Recognition is determined by the top 3 scores in each event in each session of each level in that session, regardless of age or District affiliation.  These athletes will be named a Regional Team Member and receive an AAU Regional Team Member Pin and/or certificate of recognition.  (Placement ties will be broken).

Judges:

• AAU contracts credentialed officials through the National Association of Women’s Gymnastics Judges.

• 2 judge panels are assigned.