The high school coaches are recruiting for '24 not '23. Prep schools don't care if you are a rising 8th grader or PG candidate, they look for future players, especially if you can afford to pay full or partial tuition. Private day or boarding school programs will only get stronger with US Lacrosse pushing for age verification.
Tournament directors need to adopt age-verification if it's going to work. US Lacrosse is not a governing body and cannot enforce age-verification. US Lacrosse offers insurance coverage to member programs that have 100% of its players and coaches with US Lacrosse membership #s. I would think tournament directors carry US Lacrosse insurance for their tournaments as well. Maybe you can withhold insurance coverage as a small deterrent to reclass eligible programs and tournament directors, but those programs/tournament directors will just get their insurance from other carriers.
Do you know how many reclass players participated between the top 4 teams at Naptown? Guessing not as many as you think. It will be interesting to see if this group of '27 national teams continue to dominate in the rankings in high school. Usually, the national teams splinter and the stronger local and regional teams are the standouts. There is a strong movement with national teams now at the youth level.
Let the reclass argument go and enjoy high school club lacrosse. If your kid plays for a legit program, reclasses are inevitable.
