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I saw True C scrimmaging LTLC last weekend while at Red Hots training. Some good talent over there.
Based on what I saw at the Circuit this weekend, are you sure that wasn’t True National’s 2028 team reclassed and now playing with/as the 29 Red Hots National Team?
No, full of Hawks.

Parent of a 29 Red Hots National Team. We only have 2 Hawks players and they were only there on SAT.

Multiple True kids from across the country. All June 1 Birthdays or later. Big boys nonetheless.
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Um, that was a rhetorical question by the PP. But to correct him they aren’t reclasses. The kid who scored all the goals is a ‘28.

Kid who scored all the goals was born June 24, 2010.
That’s a 2028 on age kid

US Lacrosse/NLF rules dictate anyone born after 5/31/2010 can play as a 2029.

The Circuit adopted similar rules with 2 exemptions per team allowing birthdates 1/1/2010 or later.
No, no, no. That’s not correct. It’s for kids who are IN SEVENTH GRADE, AND HAVE BEEN RECLASSED. My kid is in 8th grade, but born July 2010. He cannot play in a 2029 event, even though his age would allow him to do so. He would need to reclass and be in the 7th grade, which is the 2029 class. If the kid has not reclassed, and is still in the 2028 grade year— he’s cheating if playing 2029.

You have made this overly complicated, and you're not correct...whether you believe their intent was to focus on reclassed kids is correct or not.

The Circuit's age rules are quite simple:

For 2029s - Born after 5/31/10 with two exemptions born 1/1/10 or later

For 2028s - Born after 5/31/09 with three exemptions born 1/1/09 or later including last year's somehow approved double-holdback players grandfathered in (fun fact, there), but no "new" double holdbacks.

That's it. There's no more to it, at least in writing. The USL-NLF system is switching directly to soccer-style age groups. In fact the new NLF rules say "graduation years are only for team names" starting this year.

So, congrats on your son's playing up a year, all these years, but it's clear that he doesn't have to anymore.

For better and for worse, age/grad year are now less complicated and for your son, he now has more options.
You’re wrong. 2028 kids cannot play in 2029’division based on age. The age exception applies to kids playing 2029 who are old enough to be 2028, but reclassed somewhere along the way. My son is on age for 2028, he’s just on the younger end having been a July 2010 kid. If he wants to reclass after this year, yes, he could play 2029 because he IS ONE. This change did NOT make youth lacrosse an age-based sport. It simply allows the slightly older ones who have already reclassed, to keep playing 2029. If they are considerably older and have reclassed, they have to go play with their peers in age at 2028.

Repeat— youth lacrosse is STILL grade based. You play in the grade you are in, or you can play up. But you cannot, under any instance, PLAY DOWN.

Sure dude, point me to where it says that in the Circuit or NLF rules. Maybe right after the part of the NLF rules where it says that going forward, teams have a graduation year solely for "team name purposes". Or the part of the NLF-USL agreement discussing "U14 teams" and "U12 teams." Show me the facts that have led you to this conclusion you feel so incredibly strong about. I have a weird feeling that it's something that you heard from a club coach who allegedly heard it from Ricky Dubois at the Hoco league who allegedly talked to US Lacrosse about it at some point (with a reminder here that the HoCo league, while awesome, does not comprise "all club lacrosse" or rules for such). How close am I?
While we’re on the HoCo subject. Can 8th graders play in the 7th grade division this spring if they’re born after May 31, 2010?
That could get interesting. So much for keeping classmates together, per the USL statement.

That "keeping teams together" statement served one purpose and expressed a totally different verifiable fact.

The purpose of that phrase was to smooth the fires of club lax parents worried about losing their "star" even though the "star" is 2 years older, and will inevitably have to play with 2028s if not 2027s for awhile. It's a "this is fine" statement. "please don't freak out."

The verifiable fact behind that phrase is that with few elite exceptions in MA, NY, Philly, MD, and DC, the 300 or so 2029 club teams playing across the country will for the most part "stay together" because the average club team at HoCo AA and below has maybe 2 holdbacks. By default, the other 23-27 kids on the roster can "stay together."