Im ok age grid changes in general, but personally I will scream if we have to spend an extra year on mini.
I'm not ok with my 13/14 year old being on a team with grown adults. So removing an age cap on senior teams isn't appealing to me.
I think it is unreasonable to expect kids to never miss practice and then boot them off the team if they decide another event is more important. I agree that absences should be very limited, but a policy that allows none wouldn't be for us.
The prep team uniform for Cheer St. Louis has angel wings on the back. So if we are playing a game of who did it first it wasn't Top Gun in this case. I would guess, however, that the idea of wings on a uniform for an "Angel" team is not something that hasn't been done before.