Age verification - is this going to change club lacrosse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the country.

Lacrosse really should move to a calendar year or school year (e.g., June 1-May 30) to keep it simple.

What does this mean? And at what age?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the

You are talking about Team 91. There justofication is nonsense. We are going to cheat because other clubs are cheating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the

You are talking about Team 91. There justofication is nonsense. We are going to cheat because other clubs are cheating.

Won’t leagues and tournaments just say they can’t play?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the

You are talking about Team 91. There justofication is nonsense. We are going to cheat because other clubs are cheating.

Won’t leagues and tournaments just say they can’t play?

Have heard it's 91 as well. We submitted the age verification for some, but not all, tournaments last year. I have no idea how prevalent the "cheating" is, but my eyes tell me it's happening a lot. My son is the second tallest on his team and at the 95th percentile for height. Other teams regularly have a ton of kids who are bigger than he is. Statistically, it's unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the

You are talking about Team 91. There justofication is nonsense. We are going to cheat because other clubs are cheating.

Won’t leagues and tournaments just say they can’t play?

Have heard it's 91 as well. We submitted the age verification for some, but not all, tournaments last year. I have no idea how prevalent the "cheating" is, but my eyes tell me it's happening a lot. My son is the second tallest on his team and at the 95th percentile for height. Other teams regularly have a ton of kids who are bigger than he is. Statistically, it's unlikely.

My kid has a summer 2007 birthday and is a 2026 but would have been a 2025 had we not elected to repeat pre-K. Consistently has been among the shortest players on their teams for the duration. On the other hand, the tallest 2026s on their HS team and their club team were all born in 2008. The biggest kids are not necessarily reclasses.

Remember also that club teams are selected, so might not perfectly reflect general population norms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hearing at least one of the larger boys clubs is not going to follow the age brackets this year because it's not being universally followed across the

You are talking about Team 91. There justofication is nonsense. We are going to cheat because other clubs are cheating.

Won’t leagues and tournaments just say they can’t play?

Have heard it's 91 as well. We submitted the age verification for some, but not all, tournaments last year. I have no idea how prevalent the "cheating" is, but my eyes tell me it's happening a lot. My son is the second tallest on his team and at the 95th percentile for height. Other teams regularly have a ton of kids who are bigger than he is. Statistically, it's unlikely.

My kid has a summer 2007 birthday and is a 2026 but would have been a 2025 had we not elected to repeat pre-K. Consistently has been among the shortest players on their teams for the duration. On the other hand, the tallest 2026s on their HS team and their club team were all born in 2008. The biggest kids are not necessarily reclasses.

Remember also that club teams are selected, so might not perfectly reflect general population norms.

Well of course there are people who are just naturally small, and they are still going to be small when they are 25 years old. I would think this evens out a lot more once you get to HS, particularly for girls, and any size differences will just be the result of genetics and not age. There's a huge difference in size between an 11 and 13 year old girl. Not nearly so much between 15 and 17. Even boys tend to slow down a lot in their growth after about 16.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Girls lax needs this fixed now. At the younger ages, this is about keeping the girls safe. Being two years older puts you heads above others, literally. I don't care what you reasons were to hold back your kid academically. That's entirely moot. When it comes to their sport, they should play with kids their age, period, for safety and fairness. So your DD won't have friends from their grade on their team. So what! That's part of being held back. Guess what? They'll get their license before everyone in their grade. There are advantages and disadvantages to that holdback decision. Not everything is going to work to your advantage in life.

I agree that there need to be reasonable restrictions. When my daughter was 10, and in fifth grade, she played against a team that had a 13-year-old in fifth grade. She was the same age and size as most seventh grade students.

Imagine what it was like to see a bunch of pre-pubescent 10 and 11-year-old girls play against a teenager. That child was significantly taller and stronger, and it was not fair or safe.

The parents of the 13-year-old didn't hide her age at all and were instead bragging about the fact that their child outpowered all the other girls. Of course she did!

They are idiots. Imagine what would have happened if their daughter had checked some girl in the head and disloacted a jaw or gave some girl a concussion. They wouldn't be bragging then, one would hope.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is 8 and wants to try lacrosse? Do I really have to give them a copy of a birth certificate. This seems crazy and putting PII out there on another platform seems nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 8 and wants to try lacrosse? Do I really have to give them a copy of a birth certificate. This seems crazy and putting PII out there on another platform seems nuts.

Yes because just like little league baseball everyone is looking for an advantage and it is common for holdbacks to occur purely for athletics and it needs to end....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 8 and wants to try lacrosse? Do I really have to give them a copy of a birth certificate. This seems crazy and putting PII out there on another platform seems nuts.

Let’s say you could sign her up without a birth certificate. You’d have to fill out some paperwork and there would be some required fields including name, age, parent info, etc. Maybe I’m not thinking clearly, but the birth certificate would not contain any additional PII. The info is the PII, not the piece of paper and they are going to get it from you either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 8 and wants to try lacrosse? Do I really have to give them a copy of a birth certificate. This seems crazy and putting PII out there on another platform seems nuts.

Yes! Also, get used to it for anything competitive.