Can someone please tell me it straight. So lacrosse still as of now "kinda" goes by grade. New York schools age cut off for grades is december. So for total example kid born 11/25/2015 who kept in new york normal schooling is in 3rd grade this year just finished moving to 4th grade a 2033. Kids from other states im hearing alot of other states florida texas maryland etc is there cut off july? or sept? So kids 6 months older then New York for example kid born 7/25/2015 in those states would be in a lower grade bascially 2nd grade and moving to 3rd grade and play 2032? Is this the advantage people are saying currently other states have over New York? I heard they are trying to move to age based and not grade based but i heard there giving a 6 month buffer. Wouldn't this then keep the same advantage? Why won't lacrosse join every other sport and just make a hard 1 year age bracket?
They came out w a great and simple system. For youth, all entirely age based w a cut off based on grade as of Sept 1 (when schools have generally started across the US) and only exceptions are summer-born youth between June 1 and Sept 1 who are based on the grades their parents decided to enroll them in. It doesn't apply to HS when it is based on grade, but generally a free for all.
