what’s the worst birthday month for sports?
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Anonymous
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It really depends on the sports.
DS plays squash and it goes by birthdate. The competitive squash season is from September to late March so the best birthday to have is in April and the worst is in August. DD plays soccer which goes by year so it helps to have a Jan- Feb bday. |
Anonymous
| If your kid wants to play competitive basketball the AAU cutoff is August 31, so a late August birthday is pretty darn lousy. |
Anonymous
Yeah, that the scam - the "Red Shirt Mafia" will not have it any other way. |
Anonymous
+1 Most of the top travel baseball teams (youth) seem to be full of kids who have late spring or summer birthdays right after the May 1 cutoff. A lot of them seem to be redshirted too, and will keep the same relative age advantage for HS ball. |
Anonymous
Mid June is my DDs birthday. It’s good for summer swim but not much else. It is what it is though. I don’t put that much thought into it. |
Anonymous
Yeah for most sports, at some point it is about age relative to graduation year. A May birthday baseball player is not well served by dominating 13u baseball in 8th grade and then trying to make a high school stream with 19 year olds pitching the next year. So if you’re looking for an age advantage long term, I’d vote for a redshirted summer birthday. |
Anonymous
A redshirted baseball player in 13U right now, is in 7th grade, not 8th grade. The kids who weren't redshirted are in 8th grade are playing 14U, that we know of. The birthdates are 5/1/2010-4/30/2011. I think a lot of people have already thought this through. |
Anonymous
This is nuts. |
Anonymous
Softball varies between either Sep 1-Aug 31 (USA Softball) or Dec. 31-Jan. 1 (USSSA Softball). I wish they'd pick one. |
Anonymous
Right? My DD will turn 17 a month into senior year. And I sent her ON TIME. |
Anonymous
| If you're really good, no such thing as a bad birthday. My sport was by age for travel/club and of course by grade for school. I was THE youngest in my grade every year and had to compete in a new age group less than 2 months before championship season. Still went to college on a D1 scholarship at 17. I did not spend a single second worrying about whether I had a "bad" birthday for my sport. I was more worried about being the last one to be able to drive in HS, and to go to the bar in college! |
Anonymous
A 16 year old is staring high school? My DD, on time, will turn 18 a month into senior year. |
Anonymous
And when was this? It’s more competitive now. |
Anonymous
| Maybe it's just our experience, but I think that for a boy, August is hard. You are toward the end of the calendar year for calendar year sports and, assuming a Sept. 1 cutoff for school, the youngest in the grade. It's hard for kids in the second half of the calendar year, but at least those born toward the end of the calendar year are older than much of the grade. |
Anonymous
None of it matters, especially after puberty. My daughter is one of the oldest but the one of the shortest on her volleyball team. It’s club that is more competitive with tryouts and ages. High school doesn’t matter as much since it’s not as competitive. |