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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD's team will be mixed up for sure next year and it will be interesting to see where things fall.

She is U17 currently, 2009 BY.

Current team is 18 players of the following:

1 Player 2010 BY, HS Sophomore
2 Players 2009 BY, after 8/1 HS Sophomores
3 Players 2009 BY, after 8/1 HS Juniors
12 Players, 2009 BY, before 8/1 HS Juniors

The 2008 team has I believe 4 girls that are after 8/1 but also HS Juniors.

Also, the 3 on the current roster that are after 8/1 and HS Juniors are all committed to play in college.

So, what do you do?  I think it's obvious that the 2010 and the other HS sophomores drop back and stay with their grade year teams.  Not really a choice.

Bigger decision is what to do with the HS Juniors that are after 8/1?  Do they drop play with the correct "age" group but not their school year?  Hmm...tough choices.

As others have said, this change really didn't solve anything.  Think it's creating more issues.
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Leagues should provide a rule or a recommendation that Aug and younger players play with their grade. This way Aug birthdays dont have an option that they choose from. Theres either a rule or a recommendation telling them to play with their grade.

If they do this all the nonsense goes away.[/quote]

They explicitly left this to the clubs discretion. Regardless of what you imagine, it will sometimes be better for an August birth to play a grade below, in fact, probably in 99% of cases. The other 1% can play up based on skill. [/quote]

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