back in the day(glory days)if you were good you played up. Everything use to be by BIRTH DAYS...soccer does it football, baseball, volley ball, basketball too. Every YOUTH sport does it except for lacrosse. Private schools are trying to hold on to there advantage in the sport. ITS CRIMINAL that the sport does not go back to birthdays and if teams break up until high school that's just too bad. if parents leagues tournaments don't recognize its a problem the complaining will continue. Every time a holdback, prefirst beats a kid out that's doing it right he is just screwing that kid. GO BACK TO BIRTHDAYS!!!! problem solved...then we can find something else to complain about...
Youth lacrosse was never birthdays, unless maybe your glory days were during the Korean War. You are comparing it to sports that are 3x, 4x, 5x larger, not enough kids historically to field one team per birth year in the rec leagues. Youth lacrosse has been 2 year age spreads (U15, U13, U11, etc) for many decades.
