Tournaments are starting to require Birth Certificates to be submitted with the rosters to verify that the players fall within the DOB requirements of the tournaments. The Dicks Tournament of Champions in Florida is requiring the Birth Certificates this year and so is the World Lacrosse Festival in Denver. What will be interesting to see is if 91 or Express still send their 2020 teams to these. If they do go and submit their real birth certificates I would assume they'd have to play in the next division/age group up...
2020 Terps are all signed up for [lacrosse]'s... Now what?
Depends on when the kids who are older are born and which division they are signed up in. This is from [lacrosse]'s site for this year:
In the youth divisions (U15, U13, U11), the age cutoffs are as follows: U11: all players must have been born between 8/1/2001 and 9/30/2003 U13: all players must have been born between 8/1/1999 and 9/30/2001 U15: all players must have been born between 8/1/1997 and 9/30/1999
So if the older players are born before 8/1/2001 they are not eligible. Most school systems have age cutoffs that start on 9/1 - so 2020 would be 9/1/2001 - 8/31/2002 birth dates. 2021 would be 9/1/2002 - 8/31/2003. Those are the age groups that would be in the U11 bracket in Dicks.
Are the 2020 Terps playing in the U11 or U13 division? Same question goes for 91 Crush? Note that they are using the age breakdowns and groupings from the Spring/Summer of 2013 as that's when the teams qualified.
Terps qualify for U-11. Now What? Did your son's team win a qualifier for [lacrosse]'s in U-11?
