There are clubs that have brought in older "guest players", who are technically of age, to play at the US Lacrosse Nationals in the past. YJ certainly did it in 2017. The YJ parents on the 2021 team will even admit it, if you ask them. All tournaments / clubs need to use the same age system. There also needs to be a stick check, and player ID card checks before each game.
Yea had to or they would have lost
Did it in 2018 too.
You must be mistaken, you can't use guest players at Nationals it's against the rules.
Roster Requirements for US Lacrosse Nationals Eligibility Rules - U.S. Teams
2. All players must compete with their team or club on a regular basis. Minimum requirements are that players must compete with their team/program for at least two tournaments in the preceding 12 months leading up to US Lacrosse Nationals, or in a seasonal league.
9. Any team in violation of the above roster rules will forfeit all games in which the ineligible player has participated and any title received by the team.
The teams do nothing wrong. They also have players play up at Nationals. If a girl that plays on 2022 team but has a November birthday she can play on the 2023 team as long as she is a member of that club and played with her 22 team in the appropriate tournaments.
This is what use to happen when Nationals was only one age group, and was totally fine. But now that there are 3 age groups, pulling in a grade older but age eligible player is often just canabalizing another older YJ team also playing at Nationals. So what they do now is bring in players from other clubs that did not play with any YJ teams all summer.
Maybe YJ 2023 should have snagged a couple TG players, they could have had a different outcome!
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