That's your mentality. Simply stated by your first initial response. You must be a millennial because you take things so literal. you know what's being discussed here you [ChillLaxin]. Girls with a birth year of 2003 graduate in 2021 and girls with a birth year of 2005 graduate in 2023. It should be a birth year thing for each of those respective age groups. Oh wait a minute ..it is with the Nationals , and that's why the teams from Maryland do not show up. You would have to send teams up that aren't used to playing with each other because there are girls who would not qualify for that tournament does having to play with replacements. If you wanted to debunk that... go to Nationals. Until then deal with it. You know so much about hockey which means you probably travel everywhere for it ,yet you won't travel 3 hrs for a tournament in the next state. I'm not buying it. I know there's a three-month cutoff difference but the simple fact is there are girls who are up to a year older on those teams.
Nationals aren't done by birth year. They have a 9/1 cutoff which is the same as the MD school cutoff. All the M&D and SW 2021 girls would be able to play there. They choose not to because it's a waste of time and money after a long summer and the programs don't feel the need to post on their website that they are "National Champs". They spend the summer proving they are the two best teams in front of hundreds of college coaches. Why go to one more tournament, where there are no college coaches, to prove it again. Instead our girls actually get to spend a few weeks relaxing, going to the beach, hanging with friends, etc... You know, actually be a teenage girl.
