I can't for the life of me figure out why the MD, PA and MA teams can't put an aged based team together for this tournament. Can someone please explain why?
The prep schools have many many kids heldback, Grade base teams allowed these prefisrt/reclass children to play down as defined by USL age guidelines/ The teams in these three states have many of these players playing down.The best teams in these states are loaded with these holdback/prefirst players. These top teams would not be that good without these heldback players and for sure are not giving them up. It is a very simple why.
This is a gross exaggeration. It seems you guys up north have this idea that there are these hordes of kids in pre-first. Pre-first classes exist in only a handful of schools that have boys: BL, SP, McD, Gilman and are around 8-10 kids. McD and SP have girls in the pre-first classes, too. Are all these kids going on to play lacrosse and dominate these clubs? No! Your argument is ridiculous and impossible. Are there a couple on each team? Yes. Do a handful of boys choose to reclass at 9th grade? Yes. Do 99% of us wish this were not allowed? Yes! But this is not a big issue at 7th grade.
Any MD teams opting not to go for WSYL are doing so because they don't want to leave behind the 1-2 kids who don't make the age requirement. Or because they don't see the value if flying to Denver to play a tournament when you're in 7th grade. Think about it. It's cost prohibitive for most people and there is great competition within driving distance.
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