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anyone know anything about Athletic Passports a new age verification site some tournaments are using.

Shouldn't apply to most MD club leagues and tournaments, which are all grade-based.

US LACROSSE site now also doing age verification.

Again, doesn't matter. MD travel/club leagues and tournaments are almost all grade-based.

Rec programs in MD are still age-based, and perhaps some of them will start using some of these age verification tools.

Little too late, Maryland along with PA, NJ and further North have all gone grade base with many holdbacks/reclassed/prefirst kids.
Not sure how you stop this now as it is in all Maryland top clubs. MIAA is the place for top players in MD. All MIAA High School teams are littered with kids heldback/prefisrts and have been for many years. The coaches of Clubs in MD have ties to the MIAA schools as Coaches and Assistant coaches. If you are a top player in MD that is where you want to be.

So I see this a too little too late. It is a shame as the USL should have come out swinging at all this playing down in the name of grades a few years ago. And even worst the problem will be getting worst as more and more people hold their child back for lacrosse.

God, do you LI dads have nothing else to cry about?

It is not too late for the 2025 and younger groups.

If USL and the club teams can get behind this for single year age groups ( not u13, u11, u9 bs) and the leagues and tournaments support it , everything with be fair and square in 3 or 4 years. You just cant apply these rules with no notice.

Roughriders, Looneys, Rock and Hawks playing real Box in goals league this year.

Crabs?? FCA ? etc..get behind age base! Now that is hilarious.. Not in a million years!!!

It's great to see St Mary's and Spalding working hard to recruit the Hawks and Diamondbacks kids. MIAA championships are on thehm line.

The likelihood that parents are holding kids back and setting themselves up to pay an additional year of tuition, at $20-25,000/yr, is very remote. So please just stop with the whole debate about kids being held back on purpose. Further, it does not really matter if we play age or grade-based lacrosse. Either way USL leans, some kid will always be at a disadvantage. My son, whose birthday is in December, will always be one of the younger kids on an age-based team. In the grade-based system, he is one of the older kids. So regardless of the system, some child somewhere will always be disadvantaged. Besides, those kids who are forced to play with older, faster children will reap the rewards of having to practice with those older children.

On another note, the hold back phenomena is greatly overblown. My child's prefirst class of about 16 children only had about 5 kids who are serious athletes. Most of these 16 kids were at the mercy of the private school admission committee, and virtually all of them came from homes where the parents pushed their kids academically. The result was that most of the kids were assigned to prefirst because the parents had tested them into kindegarten early. As a result, prefirst only served to normalize these children, not give them an advantage.

As I noted, only about five of the children who entered prefirst with my child have turned into great athletes. Of those five, only 3 play lacrosse and two play up a year. This leaves just one kid and a couple of below average athletes, whom your sons are probably already ahead of on the team depth chart, for you to complain about. So in essence, on the top teams in the area you are talking abour maybe 10 kids or so. Does USL really need to make rule changes for a few kids in each age group. Besides, Little Benny should probably get used to playing behind other kids, as this is the likely result for his lacrosse future.

Spaulding should drop down to MIAA B they are the bottom feeders in the A division

learn how to spell, especially when trying to talk crap.

In two years Spalding will be on top of A.

Phipps is getting it done.

Crabs are in it and have to be the favorite

It's amazing the amount of immature posters on this forum - Crabs are not even playing in a box league at Goals! Stop stirring up s#%* and get a life dude !!!

After week one, Rough Riders, Hawks, and Crads could win it. None looked that much better than the other.

Crab uniforms crab helmets crab lacrosse bags but they are not playing ok...

too funny.. my thoughts exactly when I saw that reply. Did you have dinner there too ?

Really Dude? maybe your kid is not playing but there sure as [lacrosse] is a Crab team playing in the Goals league. So relax yourself and check with your club don't be mad here because you got left out! HAHAHAHAHAHAAA Check your life dude!!!!!!

Rock played in last two games and watched end of RR vs Looneys game. (Grilled Cheese Factory across the street)

Why is Crabs only playing in 3 games @goals the rest of teams get 6 or 7 games

They are on the full schedule now. Check the goals website.

WAIT ! Crabs are not playing in this league!! HAHAHA

Someone should have held you back.

BOO

Crabs play Hawks on Sunday.

Game of the Year!!

Are we really going to talk about Box games like it actually means something ???

What tournament or league has the crabs 2022 team ever won?

Crabs by 2

[lacrosse] yeah! Crabs, Hawks, Rough Riders, Rock, and Looney's all playing box. You had your chance to sign up.

Crabs by 2 [/quote]

Two what, holdbacks???

Crabs are bigger and faster and are a mixed group of kids from different Crab teams. They should easily win this game and the league.

Crabs - holdbacks? Ya don't say....

Box requires serious stick skills - meatheads need not apply.

And I am quite sure different age groups, like maybe half the team are 2021's. Now that would not surprise me, given the way Crabs deals from the bottom of the deck.
Now all we have to do is wait for the Crab faithful to start their pushback saying no, no there are no holdbacks on any Crab team. Just ask Ryan McClernan, he will tell you.

How many holdbacks do the Hawks have?

Doesn't matter how many hold backs or pre backs the Hawks or anyone has. Crabs will be the best 2022 team this year in MD. Every team has at least 1 or 2 kids that was born in 2003. Lets not start the cry baby whining about holdbacks again.