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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why dont all youth sports teams place kids on teams based on age, then this wouldn't happen. [/quote]

They do - largely - though for some sports it is common to have a 2 year spread - think little league baseball for example.  Lots of youth sports with many participants are one year age groups.  Soccer, for instance, goes by age as of 1/1.  Kids can play “up”, and often do, so as to play with kids in their graduation year if they are young for their grade.  But, they cannot play “down” to play with younger kids.

But, college sports are recruited based on when you graduate from high school.  You can’t start college until you graduate high school.  Many (all?) States have a max age limit for high school sports participation of 19 as of the start of the school year.  However, College Coaches don’t care how old you are when you arrive on campus.  So, for example, it is fairly common to have athletes from overseas showing up as 20 or 21 year old freshmen.  For hockey it pretty much has always been a question of playing Juniors first, and if it looks like you aren’t getting signed to play pro, then you look at playing in college so there are lots of 20/21 year old freshmen.

There certainly is no age max to start college.

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