Howard County Recreation will always have a place as the organization that got the entire garbage of grade based lacrosse going in Maryland. Wonder who got them to start a grade based league when All their other programs and leagues are based on age. The private school influence? One of the Original Directors has his kid in a MIAA school. No other reason as most holdbacks/prefirsts are in private schools. Howard County Recreation department is the match that lit the torch of Youth holdback lacrosse in MD. Prior to this all Youth teams were age base. Hall of Shame goes to Howard County and its Recreation Department. You have a special place in YOUTH ATHLETICS.
LI started grade based lacrosse. MD followed suit. That ship sailed years ago. Get over it.
LI grade base actually gave them a disadvantage to MD age ( U ) based teams. Back a few years ago Sept 1 was cutoff for MD age based teams and Dec 1 or Jan 1 was cutoff for most LI schools. LI teams were 3-4 months younger than MD teams at that time. Now with MD grade base, MD teams are much older than LI teams .
Ship hasnt sailed that far from shore. Hopefully with USL along with some Clubs finally getting into act maybe the ship might change course!
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