When he is in 9th grade will you mind if he plays against Seniors?
That’s the biggest thing here. These kids are a couple years removed from HS. They are going to have to play older kids immediately. Crying about holdbacks is nauseating. Single handedly ruining the boards. Guess what? Nothing is going to change. If anything, it’ll happen more.
And I along with others would say, the epidemic of holdbacks at the youth level is ruining lacrosse for majority of people.
Only reason it is accepted is that private schools are a big engine of high level lacrosse and they have the majority of holdbacks at youth. In MD everyone wants to play MIAA, which is holdback central.
And I agree, holdbacks will be more and more as years go by.
The rule should be anyone who wants, can play down a year ( age wise). just like holdbacks do now. This would be for 1st thru 8th youth lacrosse. That way. no moaning and groaning about holdbacks, Not everyone would use it, but it would be a good thing for youth sports in lacrosse
The Youth Lax seen is ridiculous. Youth lax tournaments should all be World Series of Youth lax model until after 8th grade. Then hold back all you want at least the majority of the kids will have hit puberty.
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