Far more football players are holdbacks but you do not hear football parents squeal and whine about holdbacks as much as lax parents. Just play. Life is unfair. If some other parents want to hold their kid back due to sports, immaturity or any other reason and go to the trouble of reclassifying their kid, I do not care. As long as you are not 19 when you enter your senior year, VA high schools do not care either. If your kid is good enough, it will not matter, especially with the new NCAA recruiting rules.
That is 100% not true, parents squeal all the time. In 8th grade, a holdback has a much bigger impact on a football game. This kid is 15 playing against 13 & 14-year-old, he is 200lbs runs a 4.6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6A1vpVKXgg&t=117s
No one player in lacrosse can impact a game like one player in football.
