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This is great! Watch the landscape change next year in terms of which teams are good!

US Lacrosse Adopts New Player Segmentation Policy


US Lacrosse today announced a new player segmentation policy to ensure player safety, competitive fairness and a consistent experience for youth lacrosse. The US Lacrosse Board of Directors approved the policy in January, and it takes effect Sept. 1, 2017 (earlier adoption is encouraged).
Policy highlights include grouping players by single-age years, using Sept. 1 as the determining date for a player's age and as the first day of a 12-month playing calendar, and standardizing nomenclature that lists the age first, i.e., 12U.

Are you serious? People don't follow the current US Lacrosse model. What makes you think they will follow this one? The World Series last year changed the cut-off date so that more teams could play with their studs for better TV. This will change nothing. It's a suggestion by US Lacrosse that will never be enforced.

The big club's will just hold their own tournaments and they will not be US lacrosse affiliated--otherwise they would have to dismantle their teams--trust me. Don't expect any of the big, top programs to show up to ANY US Lax affiliated tournaments--they'd be lucky to have half their team eligible. I do applaud the effort to try and even the playing field though...

This is absurd, Express beat Smash by 3 and rolled through the fall

The big club's will just hold their own tournaments and they will not be US lacrosse affiliated--otherwise they would have to dismantle their teams--trust me. Don't expect any of the big, top programs to show up to ANY US Lax affiliated tournaments--they'd be lucky to have half their team eligible. I do applaud the effort to try and even the playing field though...

For the most part, the big clubs don't attend US Lacrosse affiliated tournaments now. This new "rule" will not change anything.

The big club's will just hold their own tournaments and they will not be US lacrosse affiliated--otherwise they would have to dismantle their teams--trust me. Don't expect any of the big, top programs to show up to ANY US Lax affiliated tournaments--they'd be lucky to have half their team eligible. I do applaud the effort to try and even the playing field though...

Not one kid on Diamondbacks are hold backs. So this won't effect them at all..

What about WildKatz

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You guys are making jokes about the Wildkatzs but for one season a few years back they gave all the top teams at 2021 problems. In fact a bunch of the kids that were on that team are on some of the top travel teams now. Off the top of my head there are like 3 or 4 kids on 91 heat. One kid is on the A 2021 Express team. There is one kid on Smash and another on United. There's a kid on TLI u12's A team. There are others as well that play on some very good teams. Laugh all you want at the name but that was a great team that was thrown together for one travel season. To bad they couldn't stay together.

So who will attend these tourneys? By that I mean, which teams will change their rosters to adhere to this? 91? Nope. Express? Nope. Outlaws? Nah. Legacy? No way. Igloo? Definitely not! Crabs, BLC, Diamondbacks or Madlax? Never. You'll have some smaller local teams play so they don't have to play the bigger teams.

Any scores from the Maryland games this weekend? Where are the Express parents today?

Any scores from the Maryland games this weekend? Where are the Express parents today?

What a weak turn out for the Shamrock Shootout! Both days had no one there, where is all the competition hiding?

for the 4th year in a row the weather turned out horrible. smart coaches have learned their lesson.

It really wasn't that bad you pansy. We got lucky, but it was OK if you dressed properly and as usual many of the kids were wearing shorts and short sleeves.

Sachem Black has one real J@ck@$$ dad. Always a comment towards a ref. Games were over and he'd complain about a bad call. Seen him in action at other events b4.14

I heard a coach from sachem was complaining about the score to the refs at the Shamrock Shootout. The guy takes it too seriously.

Who are the screaming GC whack jobs in Syosset?

The coaches or the parents?