Birthdays and age bias

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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

For younger hockey rec they go with birth year where I am. But for travel it is by the standard youth hockey breakdowns (12u, 10u, 8u), so you have multiple ages per level. But even for those classifications it is by birth year . I think once they reach 10u the same becomes true for the rec leagues.

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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

For younger hockey rec they go with birth year where I am. But for travel it is by the standard youth hockey breakdowns (12u, 10u, 8u), so you have multiple ages per level. But even for those classifications it is by birth year . I think once they reach 10u the same becomes true for the rec leagues.

We should probably state where we are from so we’re not giving people bad information. In the Washington DC area, even the rec league for hockey use 12u, 10U, 8U.

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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

For younger hockey rec they go with birth year where I am. But for travel it is by the standard youth hockey breakdowns (12u, 10u, 8u), so you have multiple ages per level. But even for those classifications it is by birth year . I think once they reach 10u the same becomes true for the rec leagues.

We should probably state where we are from so we’re not giving people bad information. In the Washington DC area, even the rec league for hockey use 12u, 10U, 8U.

For clarity I’m at Medstar. They have 2 different 8u rec groups (this year it is one for 2014 kids and a separate one for 2015). Before that, they have rec for 6u (for 2016-2017 birth years), formerly called mini mites. All 8u kids compete for the same travel team though.

After that, they merge. 2012-2013 kids play rec in a combined 10u group, and so on up the ladder.