The argument that your kid will have to play older kids in high school and college is for the simple mind of those who can't think past step one. Although it is true all kids will have to play older kids in high school and college (step one of the equation) all high school and college teams will have Srs and Jrs who are also older. A top freshman will have older kids to play with them on the same team in college and high school. When teams have mostly holdbacks of 17 and 16 year olds like in Naptown playing teams of mostly 13 and14 year olds is not the same as playing older teams in high school and college. The 14 year old vs the 16 year old is bad enough but it is far worse when that 14 year old team does not have 16 year olds to match up against the older holdbacks which is something all high school and college teams have. So that argument that all kids will have to play older kids at some point is simplifying a more complex problem.

Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Everyone complains about Holdbacks, but here’s a downright sandbag...how is it that Schreibr and Chan allow a kid that is currently in 9th grade play this past summer on Express North 2022?? Well, my kid got cut from that team and now I find out and have facts that a kid that didn’t hold back and is in HS is on 2022, these guys should be banned from all tournaments, it’s taking the holdback route to a new level! Pure cheating!


They're no angels, but they've got a long way to go to reach the 'heights' of the MD programs in this area!



There are teams that “feel” since at some point their players will reclass, they should play a grade down NOW so they are playing at the leve; they will be at someday. It’s cheating, disengenuious, etc but these coaches will use any reasoning to get their team to win even if it’s playing younger kids.

As was said above, go to Naptown this year and LI teams are the few who are age appropriate. All the out of state teams are 1-2 years older and have no issue with it at all.

Our kids have to play them in college if they play so might as well get used to it now.