Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
My son is on a 2020 team with not as many holdbacks. He'll be 14 soon. He's pumped to play the crabs and other top teams this spring. He wants to play varsity lacrosse next year. He's not huge so he's got to learn to play with bigger and older players. There is some unfairness with grade based lacrosse to the kids who are born later. Would be the same with single year age -- ie 9/1/01 birthday and 8/31/02 birthday. And definitely a 2 yr u15 age bracket 9/1/00 to 8/31/02. To me if your kid is in 8th grade, is passionate about the game, has goals to be a impact player in HS and perhaps play in college - it's time stop worrying about the ages of his competitors and teammates. IMO those who are obsessed about this suffer from the same affliction as those who would have their kid repeat a grade for lax -- a desire to control their kids athletic endeavors. Let the kids play and enjoy the game
. Main concern is playing a team like Crabs with so many holdbacks/double holdbacks is player safety. For the most part older 14 year olds and close to 15 are much different than playing against other 13/14 year olds. Contrary to your statement, I don't believe anyone is obsessed with holdbacks in general, it is when an organization makes it their business model, player safety comes into play. I'm sure you would not like it if your son was run over by a 6foot 180 lb older 14 year old and it ended his season. Safety is the focus and concern, not holdbacks per se or win/losses.


Good point - one of the Crabs double hold backs was 6'2" and 180 LAST year according to his HUDL profile. I guess Double holdback parents don't care about my kid or yours. The average 8th grader is about 5'7" and 125 wet maybe.