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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is a joke.  Redshirting is common at all area privates for boys -- the schools encourage it and it isn't for lacrosse.  However, it isn't occurring at the middle school level, it occurs at the kindergarten level.  Notice that the article never mentions when the "redshirting" actually occurs, it just (falsely) implies that it is middle or high school.[/quote]

You aren't quite understanding -- these boys are DOUBLE held back.  Once when they're 5.25, meaning they begin school st age 6, and then again when they're in middle school.   So they are almost 2 full years (but not quite) older than some of the girls in their grade at the time of graduation.   [/quote]

They only do this if it does not interfere with eligibility. They have to be 18 on the 1st day of school. So they can turn 19 during the school year.

So enter K as a 5 yo, you eventually enter 12th as a 17 yo. if they redshirt once they are 18 but if they redshirt twice they are 19 ... so that does not work. But for kids that are in 9th right now started school if they were 5 by November 1st (in MoCo). So they are technically redshirted twice if they are born in September or October. [/quote]

Yes I am pp and I agree. A boy needs to retain eligibility so he can't be 23 and in high school.   This ploy I spoke of really advantages the boys whose birthdays are in the fall.

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