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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Momentum is building to repeal birth year registration for a couple reasons.

1. Interest in youth soccer (ages 6-12) dropped 14 percent over the past 3 years. There are several reasons for this trend. Many believe it is in large part due to players wanting to play sports with classmates at younger ages. https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-us-soccer-baxter-20180804-story.html

2. Birth year is not college recruiting friendly. College coaches organize recruiting activities by class. They prefer to compare players by graduating class to match the available talent pool graduating each year. The current system makes this more work. For example, the current system requires coaches to watch twice as many games at events to cover the Sophomore (2022) pool that is now spread between 2 age groups (U16 and U17). Beyond watching more games, they are now watching Sophomores competing versus large numbers of Juniors and Freshman in every game. Not ideal.[/quote]

Number 1 is driven by demographics, not the age grouping.  There was a significant drop off in US births after 2007.  [/quote]

This is wrong, other sports have an increase in participation over the same period. Soccer is one of the few in the negative. Look it up.[/quote]

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