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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We quit soccer when our son couldn't play with his classmates. Great Falls Reston soccer would not allow DS to play with his classmates in first grade because he was born in 2012 and they were born in 2011. They were all 6 at the time, none of them were going to have a birthday during the season, and they were in the same first grade class. This was the rec teams not the pre-travel group. DS decided to add a second season of baseball because he really liked baseball and could play with his friends.

I get that there needs to be age brackets and the like but the cut offs at such a young age, without any opportunity for allowing some movement, is a bit ridiculous.

There are a number of sports that are available at an early age. Baseball and softball are available starting as early as 4 (blastball or t ball). Flag football starts early, heck I know kids playing Pee Wee tackle football at 6. Lacrosse and the like are all available.

I do think that kids drop out off sports that they are playing for fun and exercise when they start moving to 2 practices a week or 2 games a week and the time commitment starts to increase.

The pressure to play travel ball in a fair number of sports is crazy. As more kid leave for travel teams at an earlier age, there are fewer kids to play rec ball and rec ball becomes less fun.

We wanted DS to continue with soccer but the idea that he cannot play with his friends was a killer. [/quote]
I don't really understand this. We do rec soccer in another league and my kids have always played with their same-grade classmates. I thought only travel soccer went by birth year. [/quote]

I don't know if Great Falls Reston Soccer is setting things up differently then other leagues but we requested that our son was put on a team with his friends, all three were the same age and at the same ES and lived on the same street. The two boys born in 2011 were put on one team and our son, born in 2012, was put on a different team. We emailed the coordinator and asked for our son to be moved to the team with the other boys and we were told he could not play with them because they set teams by birth year. Since the other two were born in 2011 they could be on the same team but our son, born in 2012, could not be on that team. We were told that they would not allow him to change teams and play with the 2011 team.

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