Sorry, I don’t think anyone is trying to hurt the kids other than the coach. The tournament is one of the few tournaments that is age specific. The rules state the that cutoff for U13’s is September 1, 2007. So no matter the circumstances, if a player or players birthday is one day, one week or one month prior, that player does not qualify. If a coach decides that he is going to disregard the rule because these kids have been playing together for so long and doesn’t care, that his team is not of age, that’s his decision and he has to live with the outcome. And shame on the sponsors of the WSYL if they don’t enforce the rule. The event will slowly disappear which would be a disservice to the kids and the sport.
This is the direction lacrosse needs to move. All teams everywhere should be grouped by birthday. My question remains: What other sports group kids by school class and what sports group kids by age?
Basketball has moved many leagues and tourneys to class over the past 5 years or so after being strictly age forever. It is kind of a mess however as you really need to be straight age based or straight grade to avoid confusion, kids playing in wrong level (some unintentional, mostly intentional).
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