When they implement the “age based” Lacrosse programs what will be next? Since you want to bring other sports up, let’s usenfootball, a contact sport, which is grade based, which also has weight limits. So you daddy of the porky 11 year old will not allow your little donut eater to play.! You see there is a slippery slope, and once you introduce those disgusting money grubbing litigators into the mix, all bets are off. So you better take the Happy Meal out of your chubby attackmans hands fella! Good luck, kids on age, don’t care about hold backs because he does fine, you little porker struggles, so be it!
Youth football is age based, NOT grade based. If a player cannot make weight within his AGE, he can play up one year, but no more. In other words, your analogy sucks balls!
Suffolk is age based only. You have to submit an affidavit and a picture of the child. US Lacrosse offeres age verification for free for all members. You send in a birth certificate, they verify the age and add that to the USL number. It could be done.
I am an advocate for age-based play, but the USL age cert process was not exactly a great attempt to do this. If you look at how 'real' sports do this, the original vetting requires in person presentment of an original COB with raised seal. The USL process via a digital image is so prone to altered DOB that it's not really worth that much. For LI, the process should have been executed in person via the Long Island Metro Chapter. It's a lot of work, but it's a one-time thing per player and it is what lends credibility and confidence to the entire situation.
