Hysterical the statement there is very little cheating going on. If your teams travel at all to tournaments, age and class cheating is more the norm than the exception. Other regions just don't grow kids larger than they do in this area. The kids talk both on and off the field and you will find 4-5 players per team on the more well known teams with older players both in age and class. There is no checking. Usually, those name brand teams need players to fill out their rosters and they get the older players to be more competitive.
The Crabs went to Sand Storm this past year and they were posting on social media. Someone forgot to tell them to omit the pictures of the older class Crabs kids playing and in the team huddles. Sometimes, a kid will say his parents are considering re-classing him but that's not allowed either.
Pay close attention to WSL. The rosters of those name brand teams are remarkably different and physically smaller than the teams you'll see in Frederica or elsewhere. I am pretty sure a team could challenge every roster in the out of town tournaments and find a forfeit in 75%.
I know most elite teams have several older kids due to holdbacks, but that is within the rules. However, this scenario where teams have multiple kids playing down on a younger grade team even though they haven't reclassed in school is a new phenomenon to me. This is flat cheating.
I can't imagine 75% of of the DMV elite teams do this. All of these kids/families know each other. If the Hawks '28 team had a kid that was actually in 8th grade this year, I'd have to think the other HOCO teams would know this and call them out. LE can get away with it because most other top teams don't know their kids or grades. Embarrassing lack of integrity by Leading Edge and the families doing this.
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