Caitlin Elsadek and her teammates on the Venice YMCA’s youth gymnastics team loved to be part of the crowd at college gymnastics meets.

They would go watch the University of Florida take on other big schools, like Penn State, in a big arena with plenty of onlookers. The gymnasts wore identical leotards in their team’s colors. The noise, the cheers, the love – all were things Elsadek and her friends had never experienced at a club meet.