my daughter started at alpha omega in march of 2021 on the gold team. there are a myriad of concerns as to why i would not only NOT recommend this gym, but would strongly advise anyone to stay very far away.
- after 2 months of attending, "tuition went up" $10. not a terribly big deal but the contract i signed was for $390 and i have been charged $400 without so much as a courtesy "hey! tuition is going up $10 just so you know." tution posted on the team website as of 4/28/2022 STILL reflects $390 for the 2021-2022 season. paying an extra $110 when the girls have been pretty much coaching themselves is ridiculous.
- competition fees were $1960 per team member. nearly $2k in fees that $1k (the left over money after meet fees were all added up) were unaccounted for. the team has 7 (if i'm remembering correctly) members and we were told that it costs $1k per kid for coaches fees (traveling to and from competitions, lodging, food, etc ..) whether they competed at that competition or not. $7000 for the coach to travel to and from competition within the state of texas.
- charged for a team summer camp that never happened and has since haphazardly been thrown together at the last moment to save face. what SHOULD have been team bonding at the beginning of the season is a whole year late.
- for many months the entire team were left to their own devices. relying solely on maturity and responsibility to train themselves as their coach was pulled to coach other team levels and rec kids during gold practice times. our girls were regularly pushed off of apparatus they were training on, BY THEMSELVES, for rec kids to take over.
- kingwood gym kids are kept stifled and not taught new/harder skills so that the pearland gym can win more. my daughter has multiple skills that have been left out of her routines. the last competition we attended i told her to add an extra back handspring to her tumbling pass and she received a better/higher score. i had inquired about her start values, multiple times, from the beginning of competition season and was given no information. many of the girls on the team have skills that weren't added to their routines because the start value would have been higher and would have given the pearland gym some actual competition. (we still were on that podium though, despite the nonsense). and skills that she had at the beginning of the season waned as her confidence in performing them without proper coaching diminished.
- a lot of bullying was allowed from this establishment. i'm aware bullying happens everywhere, but there was no reprimanding and very often repeat offenders because of that oversight.
- they don't let you know when very important things are happening in the gym. a coach had been hitting on and asked out a minor teenager and they were set to let it stay privileged information. the coach was fired but does everyone know the situation happened and our girls' safety made the priority? couldn't really say.
i actually felt bad for my daughters coach because a LOT of what has transpired isn't directly her fault. that's when my 11 yo let me know that coach didn't care that everyone was leaving because she'll "just get 10 more girls." if i had been privy to this sooner, i would have promptly stopped paying. unfortunately i caught covid and was hospitalised for a month and spent even longer in recovery. if you want your child to actually THRIVE in this sport i suggest you look elsewhere for them to train because all AOG wants is your money. read more