No one checks and there are fall birthdays, but some take liberties and fall birthdays turn into summer birthdays which turn into, well I guess the kid could be left back, it does become a little ridiculous. The only thing that matter should be calendar year birthday. You should only be allowed to play on a 2026 team if you are born in 2008. 2007 you should be on a 2025 team. Period.
That's not how it works. There's different age kids in every grade. So a fall bday kid has to play up, what happens to him when the grade ahead of him graduates and he wants to play lacrosse the summer before his senior year?
Most of Maryland football is 7u, 8u, 9u and so on. You need a state issued ID to play and it's checked pre game each week. Maybe lacrosse will have to get there eventually.
