Originally Posted by Anonymous
would just like to know how uslacrosse allows all these teams at the u15 national championship to play with all star teams. if your team is full of hold backs and repeaters of the 8th grade 2 or 3 times and u can't field a team then just stay home. just watched FCA play with kids from sweetlax, 91, madlax and turtles. just sad!!!


I don't see U.S. Lacrosse changing this, since 3d National and FCA have won the event multiple times. But even the World Series of Lacrosse, with it's early 5/1 cutoff, requires players to live within 100 miles of team and play regularly with them. So it can be done.

It's definitely a "first world" problem, but if you are a dedicated homegrown club that follows the U.S. Lacrosse 9/1 cutoff, you have to play older kids when you go to most tournaments. Then, when you finally get to play kids your own age in a 9/1 age-verified tournament (and U.S. Lacrosse is ONLY tournament to verify and use 9/1), you have to play all-star teams loaded with D1 commits from outside the club that you can't compete with either.