Anonymous
Post 01/30/2025 06:13     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Cry me a river
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 21:30     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
You’re going to be chasing this issue all the way through high school. It’ll sort of even out around junior year, but it is what it is.

The ideal scenario is your younger kid can make it and stick and eventually when the size differ risks normalize he’ll be the one that has an advantage, but that is going to be a tall order.

We chased this problem with our July birthday son and sort of felt it with our February birthday son who was a late bloomer.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 12:19     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It feels lazy like they prioritized birthdays. I do not see any situation it could just turn out that way.

Are you new to the world of competitive athletics? This is a very common phenomenon. The other posters are correct. The team isn’t prioritizing birthdates; they’re prioritizing the fastest, strongest, most skilled players. The older kids have the advantage.


But all 20? Surely there are one or two younger than would have made it. Just seems unusual, I mean Jan to Aug is the majority of the year!
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 12:18     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:Read The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.


Why fool
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 11:51     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:It feels lazy like they prioritized birthdays. I do not see any situation it could just turn out that way.

Are you new to the world of competitive athletics? This is a very common phenomenon. The other posters are correct. The team isn’t prioritizing birthdates; they’re prioritizing the fastest, strongest, most skilled players. The older kids have the advantage.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 11:38     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Read The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 11:21     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:ALL 20 are born in January? Or does your sport start in another month?


All 20 are born Sep-Dec, and some in the summer the year before but in the same grade. I just find it shocking it could end up like that randomly.


Its not random. At age 8, older kids have a clear athletic advantage.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 09:36     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid plays a grade level up and is a summer birthday. Quit your whining


Your 8 year old plays on the 4th grade only team? I doubt it.

Yes it’s a wide wide world out there


Must not be very competitive. We have an ex NBA player’s kid on the roster and they are playing in their year. Not all teams are the same. Get over yourself. Like you said, wide wide world out there.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 09:23     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid plays a grade level up and is a summer birthday. Quit your whining


Your 8 year old plays on the 4th grade only team? I doubt it.

Yes it’s a wide wide world out there
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2025 09:07     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:What sport has 20+ players and teams by grade?


Baseball.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:42     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:My kid plays a grade level up and is a summer birthday. Quit your whining


Your 8 year old plays on the 4th grade only team? I doubt it.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:11     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Anonymous wrote:It feels lazy like they prioritized birthdays. I do not see any situation it could just turn out that way.


It's not lazy and they aren't prioritizing birthdays (how dumb would that be?). They are prioritizing size/coordination/skills, and when kids are little (8 is very much still little!) 6 months makes a HUGE difference in gains and it is far more likely that an older kid has a size advantage than a younger one. 6 months is not such a big deal down the road. Try out for what you are interested in, play where it's a good fit, and know you can change course at any time.

But it's not like if a prodigy with a May birthday showed up they'd deny him. If that was the case, they wouldn't offer try outs to everyone, they'd only let kids with a certain birthdate come to practice.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:05     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
My kid plays a grade level up and is a summer birthday. Quit your whining
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 18:04     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
Weird question
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 17:44     Subject: Zero kids born after Jan on a select team, wwyd if your child was born summer?
It feels lazy like they prioritized birthdays. I do not see any situation it could just turn out that way.