I know you are into youth lacrosse for your own personal edification of your unfulfilling youth athletic career.
But the actual children who play like that sort of thing.
I’m with you. Maybe we could get them to hayrides and petting zoo?
The on age, 7th grade ,12yr old's competing will probably enjoy the zoo and hayrides. Your 15yr old 7th grader will probably not.
Yes but In fairness half the on age kids are 13 now. Fall birthdays abound with the on age kids in elite especially but also AAA.
How? The NY school year is December to November. So in NY the majority are still 12yrs old. Outside of NY the school year is Sep - Aug. The majority outside of NY are still 12yrs old. If you pre-k/reclass/holdback then yea, they are 13 and older.
They really aren’t the majority. The school year is mainly sept to the last week of may to the first week of June for most of the country.
Sept to December is 4 months. These kids are 13.
Jan to june is really 5.5 months. Those kids are 12.
If you look at the distribution - most of the kids on the better teams around the country who are on age - as of right now are already 13. Meaning most of the kids on GOOD Teams.
Yea there are more months in the second half of the school year but if you look at the rosters you will see how old kids actually are.
It’s probably because at the younger ages even six months of development is huge athletically. So those kids shook out to elite teams younger.
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