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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were the correct age on June 1st.  Too bad for other kids. Summer birthdays win the day in summer swim!
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Agree - every birth date has its pros and cons.  It is what it is.[/quote]

I think it annoys people because kids are named 11-12 year champion or whatever,  but they are technically 13. Something about 13 year olds getting an award that has “12” written on it really rubs people the wrong way.

If you kept the June 1 cutoff and called the groups something other than 8u, 10u etc, it would help. Like Squirts, Junior I, Junior II, Senior I and Senior II, for example. Those names are kind of dumb, but you get the idea. Then you could have a Junior I champ and everyone would know that the kid was born between x and y dates and is possibly 11, but they wouldn’t get so irate that they are called a 10u champ. [/quote]

Pp. Just adding that I guess I’m sympathetic to parents of summer born kids asking “can my kid have one small thing”, but I think having a rule that is consistent and convenient for a short summer league trumps all that. I like the age rule for club swim but it would be too hard for beleaguered summer volunteers to keep track of. June 1 makes sense to me. [/quote]
I agree with you that I think what rubs people the wrong way is calling a 13 year old an 11-12 record holder or whatever. Summer swim is so short that keeping a cutoff is not that big of a deal. The best kids rise to the top regardless of the age cutoff. Although I don’t think aging up on your birthday would have any impact on the volunteers. [/quote]

Youth hockey used to call their players mites, squirts etc. but a few years ago decided to change the names to 8u, 10u. So technically in the spring there are kids who already turned 9 competing in the 8u division (because age cutoff is Jan 1 but the season goes Sep through March)  but I never hear parents complaining about that[/quote]

I think a difference is in team sports, you usually don’t know details of the opposing players so you don’t have obsessive parents scrutinizing birth dates.  [/quote]

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