The June 2024 report of the National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Committee was recently made public. Discussed in the meeting were proposed changes to the sport for future seasons. We break down the main recommendations here, share our thoughts on them, and pose questions that still need answering.
Recommendation No. 1
Increase the number of competing athletes in postseason competition from 15 to 18. This was a recommendation from last year that was tabled until this year. This would take effect in the 2025 season.
Thoughts from our editors:
There are a couple of positives for this. The first is for teams like BYU that utilize a lot of specialists. In fact, during the 2024 season, BYU had more than 15 gymnasts competing across the four events and had to make a tough decision come postseason to narrow it down.
This recommendation was made prior to the news that scholarship limits will likely be increased beginning in the 2025-2026 season while also capping the roster size at 20 gymnasts. It’ll be interesting to see whether this proposal will again be tabled until that settlement is finalized. It’s possible that the postseason competitor limit could be raised to 18 for the 2025 season and then again raised to 20 once the roster limit takes effect.
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