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Anonymous wrote:What is a trapped player?
Basically a trap player is born in the same birth year as the kids that are a grade older on a team (think Oct.-Dec. birthdays since cutoff for school, at least in VA, is Sept. 30). So those players are "trapped" and get to repeat their U19 season twice - once as a Junior playing with mostly seniors in HS, then as actual seniors playing with majority Juniors. I have two trap players in club soccer. and really wish they had never moved to the birth year rule and just stuck with grade levels.
Can one play U19 season twice? I guess the leagues don’t care about age at that point?
Age is why they can play twice. It's U19, not U18.
This is correct. Trap players get to play U19 two years in a row.
What does this mean? How do those kids get to play U19 two years in a row?
Kids born Oct.-Dec. birthdays are a grade LOWER (cutoff for school, at least in VA, is Sept. 30).
At U18 the Oct.-Dec. kids will play with mostly seniors in the Academy, while they will be Juniors.
So the following year once they are finally seniors most of the their teammates will be off to college? and what happens to the Oct.-Dec. kids?