Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
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Anonymous
| It feels lazy like they prioritized birthdays. I do not see any situation it could just turn out that way. |
Anonymous
| Weird question |
Anonymous
| My kid plays a grade level up and is a summer birthday. Quit your whining |
Anonymous
It's not lazy and they aren't prioritizing birthdays (how dumb would that be?). They are prioritizing size/coordination/skills, and when kids are little (8 is very much still little!) 6 months makes a HUGE difference in gains and it is far more likely that an older kid has a size advantage than a younger one. 6 months is not such a big deal down the road. Try out for what you are interested in, play where it's a good fit, and know you can change course at any time. But it's not like if a prodigy with a May birthday showed up they'd deny him. If that was the case, they wouldn't offer try outs to everyone, they'd only let kids with a certain birthdate come to practice. |
Anonymous
Your 8 year old plays on the 4th grade only team? I doubt it. |
Anonymous
Baseball. |
Anonymous
Yes it’s a wide wide world out there |
Anonymous
Must not be very competitive. We have an ex NBA player’s kid on the roster and they are playing in their year. Not all teams are the same. Get over yourself. Like you said, wide wide world out there. |
Anonymous
Its not random. At age 8, older kids have a clear athletic advantage. |
Anonymous
| Read The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. |
Anonymous
Are you new to the world of competitive athletics? This is a very common phenomenon. The other posters are correct. The team isn’t prioritizing birthdates; they’re prioritizing the fastest, strongest, most skilled players. The older kids have the advantage. |
Anonymous
Why fool |
Anonymous
But all 20? Surely there are one or two younger than would have made it. Just seems unusual, I mean Jan to Aug is the majority of the year! |
Anonymous
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You’re going to be chasing this issue all the way through high school. It’ll sort of even out around junior year, but it is what it is.
The ideal scenario is your younger kid can make it and stick and eventually when the size differ risks normalize he’ll be the one that has an advantage, but that is going to be a tall order. We chased this problem with our July birthday son and sort of felt it with our February birthday son who was a late bloomer. |
Anonymous
| Cry me a river |