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Anonymous
She’s getting there.  big growth spurts, but really finding her feet this season so it’s been great to see her in some solid all out sprints and challenges against similarly physical girls.
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Anonymous
No, kids won't get to choose unless it's rec. Most high-level clubs will want better players to stay Aug-July for the age advantage unless they are very, very good. So, then the kid plays a grade below and poof goes away for a season when they hit 9th grade for HS, if they play HS. Awesome! Can't wait. |
Anonymous
| So, with this big decision today, GA really is on the clock. What will they do? (MLSN, too, for that matter). |
Anonymous
+1 virginia is 9/30 state so you can have 2 months of players mismatched. Great decision! |
Anonymous
Nope, GA and MLSN are under no pressure to do anything. It would be fun though if GA did SY+60 with a 9/1 cutoff. All the grade above players wouldn't be able to play down with a younger grade (even if they were born 7/1-9/1) and GA would completely address all Trapped Players even the edge case July ones. |
Anonymous
If you sift out all the noises and trolls from the last 50 pages or so, the answer is already there. GA will be SY 8/1. |
Anonymous
🤣🤣🤣 you mean “if you sift out all the OTHER noise and OTHER trolls…” GA and MLSN are staying BY. They always intended to do so. That is why USSF gave the dual option of BY or SY (8/1 or 9/1)…because GA and MLSN wanted BY… |
Anonymous
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Parents of elite players (ie, might be recruited to play in college) should stick with graduation years even if that means your Aug-Sept kid is the youngest on their team. Everyone else, do you. Let them play with their friends. Soccer would do everyone a service by renaming teams to not their BY but their class of. IE.
Arlington 2032s |
Anonymous
Nice try reclassed private school parent. Sorry your 16 year old freshman isn't wanted. |
Anonymous
| It's interesting the timing of the announcement after tryout season. |
Anonymous
| Heck yeah! 8/1 was always the best possible option. |
Anonymous
GA wanted to stay BY but once all the SY change started to become official they now understand that might not be in the cards. I heard last month from my daughters director GA was thinking either 8/1 or staying BY but allowing kids to play down based off biobanding concepts and school grade. He believes it will be 8/1 and they are going to allow kids to play 2 league games a day as long us PT does not exceed 90 min a day. |
Anonymous
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August parent here with Sept 1 school cut off date.
I look at it positively, son can play down or play up, depending on the team and his level. Not worried about being trapped in 9th grade either, if playing down. Will simply not tryout for HS team his freshman year. Freshmen don’t get much playing time anyways. So, don’t worry about August birthdays, we will manage! |
Anonymous
Be ready when ECNL allows for GY showcases and GY for seniors in high school. Because it’s coming. |
Anonymous
Don't care, teams will be locked except for the players that have already signed. |