Recruiting question: Is it better to have the later graduation year on an older team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a big thing in volleyball and recruiting. Now that the birth year thing has seemed to settle, you have to look at the recruiting side of it, assuming that is what you are interested in.

Most top colleges will notice a kid about 9th or 10th grade and hope to have them verbally commit in their junior year and be done with looking at that team. If you are a year younger, they probably won't be looking at that team much more for just 1 player unless they are amazing and if they are amazing, they would have been looked at when the entire team was looked at.

basically, a kid playing up is not on the same recruiting cycle as the rest of the team.

However, it's NOT playing up for some on that team.

Fall birthdays Sept-Dec (juniors) will still have one year of HS left when the rest of their team (seniors) graduates as they are a school grade higher since we switched to birth year vs calendar year.

[Anonymous]

What about kids on a top team who were red-shirted in kindergarten, so they may be sophomores, but play mostly with their age peers who are juniors?

What happens their senior year? Play high-school soccer or can they still play in a club, or have they aged out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about kids on a top team who were red-shirted in kindergarten, so they may be sophomores, but play mostly with their age peers who are juniors?

What happens their senior year? Play high-school soccer or can they still play in a club, or have they aged out?

The top age group at most clubs is a combination of two birth years and plays as U19s to allow for the fact pattern above, as well as the boy/girl with a Sept-Dec birthdate, who is young for their birth year, but a grade behind his/her peers on a birth year team.

[Anonymous]

If you want to be recruited by a school, you need to email the coaches and go to their ID camp at the school. They may then come to see you play if they are interested, but you need to get them your game schedule. They may come see you play 5 or 6 times, then have you come for a visit Junior year for D1 and D2. Offers come for normal players once your SAT scores are in and you made a visit. It works differently for superstar players, but in general that is how it works. Coaches don't normally reach out to players (or your coach) they see at a tournament unless they know you are interested. I'm not sure there is any advantage to be a year behind your teammates in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about kids on a top team who were red-shirted in kindergarten, so they may be sophomores, but play mostly with their age peers who are juniors?

What happens their senior year? Play high-school soccer or can they still play in a club, or have they aged out?

Excuse me! We did not redshirt, but our kid is in this scenario because of a Fall birthday that was just past the cutoff (October) to start Kindergarten. Kids born in Sept-Dec are in the lower grade because of the school-age cutoff. The parents did not redshirt them. Geesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about kids on a top team who were red-shirted in kindergarten, so they may be sophomores, but play mostly with their age peers who are juniors?

What happens their senior year? Play high-school soccer or can they still play in a club, or have they aged out?

Excuse me! We did not redshirt, but our kid is in this scenario because of a Fall birthday that was just past the cutoff (October) to start Kindergarten. Kids born in Sept-Dec are in the lower grade because of the school-age cutoff. The parents did not redshirt them. Geesh.

We did redshirt our daughter, why are you getting your panties in bunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about kids on a top team who were red-shirted in kindergarten, so they may be sophomores, but play mostly with their age peers who are juniors?

What happens their senior year? Play high-school soccer or can they still play in a club, or have they aged out?

Excuse me! We did not redshirt, but our kid is in this scenario because of a Fall birthday that was just past the cutoff (October) to start Kindergarten. Kids born in Sept-Dec are in the lower grade because of the school-age cutoff. The parents did not redshirt them. Geesh.

We did redshirt our daughter, why are you getting your panties in bunch?

There is always criticism of redshirting kids. I know kids with Spring bdays that were red-shirted and they had no disabilities. It's crazy. The thread implied all kids in the grade lower were red-shirted. It's actually more Fall bdays and a few red-shirters.