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Honestly the choice to hold back a child for acedemic or athletic reasons is up to the kid and his parents if you think that this is horrible and unfair then holdback your kid. When your kid is grown up and you are old this 5 year span in his life won't matter that much. At the end of the day arguing over trivial matters likes this on a forum is a waste of your time.

If you want to know how much the prefirsts/holdbacks/reclassed effect Maryland teams...

All you need to know is look at the World Series of Youth Lacrosse teams. Out of 37 teams listed in Inside Lacrosse of supposedly best U13 teams in country.... 3 are from Maryland. And all three are not considered anywhere near the top in MD. Maryland can only compete by older players playing younger players...Pretty Sad state for Youth Lacrosse in MD.

Api took on the md elite with one kid that was a pre K and was a face off kid who is very good but wasn’t the starter . Api last year had no holdbacks and competed with the best . They finished 3rd in the World Series of Lacrosse and 9th before roughriders 2022 National championship . So they did pretty well but this year they have change they have holdbacks now they aren’t as good . Api is not a elite team anymore. They lost a lot of good players .

MD may be the worst, but last year they changed the rules for WSYL after clubs try outs and made finalized rosters.- but lets not pretend that NJ,NY,PA,VA,DC,NE,FL,TX don't all have holdbacks. This is a fact. Teams hold separate tryouts and have completely different teams that they send to this 1 tournament. Every other tournament in the country allows the age differential . Not condoning it but its fact, what is not factual is MD can't compete without holdbacks. API made it to the final 4 with a weak team and beat the champion in earlier round. Maybe you should come down and watch some MD fall ball and see the high level of lacrosse from Elite, A,B and Rec teams. MD REC teams can compete against all 37 teams at WSYL. Just because they choose not to participate in 1 tournament doesn't mean they can't compete. Lacrosse in MD is stronger than ever at every level.

My question why holdback the kids why not do a post grad year after high school before college . The kid will know more of what they want and you still get a older kid going into college with some college credits ...

Hmm Looks like recruiting and Holdback rules being called into question at MIAA schools for football. Some MIAA lacrosse schools should hurry up and cover their tracks before the St.Frances and Biff Poggi issues call into question MIAA lacrosse recruiting and hold back rules......