You can’t play on a 2025 team if your graduation year is 2024. So the date of birth being after 8/31/06 for WSYL is irrelevant if the player is 2024 graduation year. If your young ‘06 player can’t make an elite A team in the 2024 level that shouldn’t be the problem of the 2025 kids. Get your kid some quality training and maybe he could make an elite 2024 team this summer.
WSYL is an age-based tournament - eligibility has zero to do with graduation year/grade, ONLY DOB. It's really not that hard, and there is no inherent benefit in such a criteria for a player that is in either the 'on-age' grade or not; you're either born between the cutoff dates or you're not, and whether you might have some slight differences in social maturation based upon grade is really irrelevant for a 365-day window. And that's the way all of lacrosse should be!
I dont think people expected the WSYL to be as successful as its been and now people see age can work, but grade isn't changing. So things get stuck in this odd state of folks trying to blend the two.
Blend the two in two years ! Now blending is cheating
Just move lax to age-based play like every other youth sport already figured out!
