Birthdays and age bias

[Anonymous]

What are some of the birthday cutoffs for sports in the DC area? I know hockey is January. Hockey also goes U8, U10 and U12. Does a kid born in December even have a chance of they are not a natural talent? Are all sports January cutoffs?

[Anonymous]

Soccer is birth year, with rec level using school grade I think

Basketball and lacrosse are school grade for the most part

Swimming is how old kid is on first day of any given meet

[Anonymous]

Jiu jitsu is done by weight and skill level not age. Summer swim is June 1st. Club/year round swim is their age at the meet they’re doing that day. Soccer is by grade. ( rec soccer in moco is anyway)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swimming is how old kid is on first day of any given meet

Except summer swim. There was a multi-week thread on that topic back in August right after a bunch of 11 year olds dominated in the 9-10 age group at NVSL all stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Swimming is how old kid is on first day of any given meet

Except summer swim. There was a multi-week thread on that topic back in August right after a bunch of 11 year olds dominated in the 9-10 age group at NVSL all stars.

True, I was answering from the perspective of club sports/traditional seasons. Summer swim is a special one-off case.

[Anonymous]

Baseball is August cut off for little league/rec, but May cutoff for travel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are some of the birthday cutoffs for sports in the DC area? I know hockey is January. Hockey also goes U8, U10 and U12. Does a kid born in December even have a chance of they are not a natural talent? Are all sports January cutoffs?

Note that for hockey many teams will be organized on a birth year basis . So all the kids with the older birth year in the 12U group would be group together (the Major team) and the younger birth year kids would be the minor team. The less talented/developed kids in the 12U group might be put together in a “mixed” team. So generally your kid won’t be competing against other kids who are two years older

[Anonymous]

Volleyball is July 1

[Anonymous]

Wasn’t soccer a different date before they moved to birth year? Makes me wonder if other sports (aside from swim and weight based sports) will also move to birth year, especially because seasons don’t seem to exist in youth sports anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t soccer a different date before they moved to birth year? Makes me wonder if other sports (aside from swim and weight based sports) will also move to birth year, especially because seasons don’t seem to exist in youth sports anymore.

Soccer was close to school cutoffs before they switched to birth year in a misguided attempt to try and gain an advantage for the January birth dates at the international level after reading freakonomics. They thought the reason the US was not competitive was that the “older” birth year kids were not receiving the best training, as they were “middle” of the school age groups, changing to birth year would give them an edge and help the 1% of the 1% from the beginning, while wrecking retention at the young ages (since kids aren’t playing with their classmates) and causing a glut of trapped players (younger players in lower grades left behind when their older birth year team mates change schools - MS-HS, HS-college).

I doubt other sports would change, as school year cutoffs make sense for college and pretty much every other reason. .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baseball is August cut off for little league/rec, but May cutoff for travel

Little league is Sept. 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some of the birthday cutoffs for sports in the DC area? I know hockey is January. Hockey also goes U8, U10 and U12. Does a kid born in December even have a chance of they are not a natural talent? Are all sports January cutoffs?

Note that for hockey many teams will be organized on a birth year basis . So all the kids with the older birth year in the 12U group would be group together (the Major team) and the younger birth year kids would be the minor team. The less talented/developed kids in the 12U group might be put together in a “mixed” team. So generally your kid won’t be competing against other kids who are two years older

this has not been our experience. At CHA, the red, white, and blue teams at least up through U12 seem to have teams with both birth years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some of the birthday cutoffs for sports in the DC area? I know hockey is January. Hockey also goes U8, U10 and U12. Does a kid born in December even have a chance of they are not a natural talent? Are all sports January cutoffs?

Note that for hockey many teams will be organized on a birth year basis . So all the kids with the older birth year in the 12U group would be group together (the Major team) and the younger birth year kids would be the minor team. The less talented/developed kids in the 12U group might be put together in a “mixed” team. So generally your kid won’t be competing against other kids who are two years older

this has not been our experience. At CHA, the red, white, and blue teams at least up through U12 seem to have teams with both birth years

Our experience is the same- my 11 yo plays with 2 birth years (RHL)

[Anonymous]

Tennis goes by actual birthday for USTA tournaments. Younger kids are allowed to play up at their own discretion.

[Anonymous]

^^rhe age categories are two year increments.