An age ceiling percentage. Really man. It’s youth sports. This isn’t physics. Stop already. Stop making this difficult. It’s black and white. There is a date cutoff. Kids should play the same year. I have 3 kids, one is a summer baby. Too bad on him, he will be 10 or 11 months younger than others. That’s life, sorry. He will he youngest on team. Oh well. Life goes on. Kids aren’t 2 or 3 years older, maybe 11 months. That’s the way it goes.
It is that easy yet all top tournaments go by grade . Youth lacrosse is broken, and there is no fix. The Top Clubs from MD to MA and many of top clubs from CA, TX, FL , etc are loaded with holdbacks/prefirst/reclass players now.
If you want to compete at top level and your child is just a very good player...He needs to be held back to compete now.
It isnt as simple as , he will catch up at 10 grade. He might, but he may be so far behind many other holdbacks ( due to holdbacks getting playing time and attention) that it will be difficult unless he is above average.
I wish they would go back to age, but it isnt happening,
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