LOL. There are tons of holdbacks at Calvert Hall, St. Mary's, MSJ, etc. They don't allow people to repeat a HS grade, but all you have to do is repeat 8th or an earlier grade, which many do. For example, one of CH's kids going to Ohio State is a holdback. To imply they don't have holdbacks at parochial schools is nonsense.
Any MIAA A lacrosse school parochial or not has holdbacks/prefirsts/reclassed all thru them. Even some of the MIAA B have quite a few .. It has been that way for many years. Really wasnt a big deal until YOUTh lacrosse decided to give them an advantage by playing these holdbacks/prefirst/reclassed down due to grade base.
If age based lacrosse was the norm in Baltimore very little would be said about it. Just like 4-5 years ago when even the Crabs were age based in youth.
