Originally Posted by Anonymous
"""""""""Your son has a late spring/summer birthday so you started him a year later, which puts him at U15A in 7th grade and U15AA in 8th grade"""""""""

Thats called holding your child back in laymans terms. What has become the norm in the MIAA world but unfortunately has filtered down to youth clubs in MD.


There are a lot of crazy parents that hold their kids back purely for lacrosse, but don't put all of MD/DC in that basket. Most of the kids play age/grade appropriate. Don't let the few abusers diminish the talent in the mid-atlantic. Those of us, whose kids play in the appropriate grade, don't condone the behavior but we do have to live with it. Let the crazies say what they want but holding a child back is almost always for a sports advantage.