from LI, parent of a '20 (appropriate age), sounds reasonable to me. get rid of 5/1 as cutoff (ridiculous) and organize tournaments by u age as of 9/1. I don't care if the author of this is crabs/looney's/leadiug edge/breakers/crush/fl$- great post and agreed.
Agree-back to 9/1 ! Too bad nobody has the guts and ability to put into place and enforce. NJ is trying to cut down on holdbacks who do so for sports and proposing kids that were held back in middle school only be permitted to play 3 years in high school. That would put an end to this nonsense.
Your kid born in Q4? Just go to calendar year groupings, 5/1, 9/1, all arbitrary
8/31 or 9/1 is used for most sports because they are trying to align as close as possible by grade and most of the country uses a 9/1 school cutoff. Understand NY does not but the rest of the country does and it allows as many kids as possible to play with their legitimate classmates. It is also the date that the old age system in youth lacrosse used before the grade based system was pushed.
