Don't understand how lacrosse has not followed Hockey in using birth year instead of year you want your kid to graduate by holding them back. What a joke!
At the HS level, what would be the relevance of evaluating a bunch of 16 year olds by themselves, a bunch of 17 year olds by themselves, or a bunch of 18 year olds by themselves? The birth year, what is that doing for you, what is it that is so mesmerizing? Club at the HS level is for showcasing talent by graduating class, and in case you haven't heard, one graduating class graduates off to college each year, and age isn't a determining factor. So very unhelpful for scouts if they are looking at a mixed bag team of kids all over HS during Summer, when they are sent out specifically to work on their boards. If you are talking about youth ball, which you shouldn't be now, because '21's are done youth ball, than who cares, probably to keep it consistent down the line from the HS brackets, or maybe just to drive the liberals crazy, or maybe because the hockey folks were colluding with the Canadians.
But in HS, the maturity differences level out around 11th grade, so there isn't as much of a difference by the time you get there. At 2021, you have kids that haven't even sniffed puberty at age 13 and 14 playing against men who are 15 and 16 and are fully mature. Not at all the same as a 16 year old versus a 17 year old.
