what’s the worst birthday month for sports?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering!

[Anonymous]

If you go by ‘The Outliers’, it’s December.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Why does it matter? It’s hard to plan for, because some sports go by grade level and others go by age. Some have age cut-offs in August, others in December.

[Anonymous]

The red-shirtable months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The red-shirtable months.

Woops. I meant red-shirtable are best. (I mean, best if you are actually considering this inane question.)

[Anonymous]

It depends on the sport! Some are by birth year (e.g. travel soccer) and some are April 30 (baseball). My kid has a decent soccer birthday (April 1) but a crappy Baseball birthday.

[Anonymous]

It depends. My kid’s November birthday is lousy for club soccer and track, but great for school soccer and track.

[Anonymous]

Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

Terrible for swimming, decent for baseball, middle for soccer. If you redshirt, good for lacrosse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

Terrible for swimming, decent for baseball, middle for soccer. If you redshirt, good for lacrosse.

Our youth baseball league is Sep 1-Aug 31. Is yours different?

Our lacrosse is by grade level all the way through.

[Anonymous]

January is great for soccer but terrible for swim

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is mid June good for anything? I feel like it’s late for school aged and bottom middle for anything else that starts in January.

Terrible for swimming, decent for baseball, middle for soccer. If you redshirt, good for lacrosse.

Our youth baseball league is Sep 1-Aug 31. Is yours different?

Our lacrosse is by grade level all the way through.

Your baseball league sounds like rec? I know that’s little league age grouping.

Here, travel baseball is May 1-April 30 so a kid with a June birthday would have the second oldest birthday month in travel baseball.

Naturally my kid has an April 30th birthday.

[Anonymous]

August - our DS was born in early September - and we reclassified him in middle school to the year below, end result was perfect he turned 19 a week into senior year. Wound up attending a top SLAC for his sport, 100% the result of the age advantage we arranged - younger DS won’t be so easy with August birthday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:August - our DS was born in early September - and we reclassified him in middle school to the year below, end result was perfect he turned 19 a week into senior year. Wound up attending a top SLAC for his sport, 100% the result of the age advantage we arranged - younger DS won’t be so easy with August birthday

That’s awesome! What sport is this? I think you were smart to do it in middle. It’s a better advantage than kinder because they are used to playing with older kids instead of just the inherent advantage of being older and stronger.