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So what league is everyone playing in this year? Will crabs and FCA join the St. Paul's league? Does the hoco league have a Elite Division(2021 did last year)as well as a AA division? Any teams moving up from B division last year?

Hoco league - the best place to see all the holdbacks in one place. Make it age based.

The club you are associated with is age based?

Hoco league - the best place to see all the holdbacks in one place. Make it age based.

Hoco league - the best place to see all the holdbacks in one place. Make it age based.

Hoco is the best league in the country.
The best Nova, DC, Baltimore and Annapolis clubs play in it. A top philly team even make s the trip.
No other league can provide the facilities that they do.

Winning the top hoco division at any age is a major accomplishment.

Until rules are changed this is the landscape are boys play in if they want to be the best. Crying about it does nothing for anyone especially the players. Preparing for high school lax and a high level against other top players is ok with me. 1 year makes no difference and will not be an excuse in this house.
Pull your kid out and go play in the rec league so he will be a stud . Good luck in high school.

Of course it makes no difference. You buy into the grade based playing system of having select kids play down. Not sure how having select kids play down in 2025 grade makes everyone else in 2025 tough for HS. Keep telling yourself that.
Corruption of youth sports is letting select players play down.
Maryland is the land of Holdbacks and spineless USL HQ.

Of course it makes no difference. You buy into the grade based playing system of having select kids play down. Not sure how having select kids play down in 2025 grade makes everyone else in 2025 tough for HS. Keep telling yourself that.
Corruption of youth sports is letting select players play down.
Maryland is the land of Holdbacks and spineless USL HQ.

You can very easily have aged based/birth year elite level lacrosse teams.

They already do that is elite soccer , ice hockey and basketball in this area.

Most rec or second tier programs have the blended ages

Soccer plays the same amount of games if not more then lacrosse in this area and they have plenty of fields and officials.

I having youth aged kids play against other kids that are the same birth year provide for better games and player safety at the elite level.

Once in high school graduation year teams are better for college coaches so they can see players who might not be playing alot as a freshman or Sophomore.

Plus once in high school you cannot hold back do to Maryland High school sports rules.

Personally I do not have a problem with a 1 year hold back but when you have players who have held back twice that is problem.

If you actually know of any kid at the youth level that has repeated two grades already, which you don't, please just keep quiet and leave that family alone!

Of course it makes no difference. You buy into the grade based playing system of having select kids play down. Not sure how having select kids play down in 2025 grade makes everyone else in 2025 tough for HS. Keep telling yourself that.
Corruption of youth sports is letting select players play down.
Maryland is the land of Holdbacks and spineless USL HQ.

The grade based system is total black eye on the sport. Last season had soon to be 16 years olds (In the case of the Crabs - an actual 16 year old 2020 player) play against kids that are 13 or 14. Completely absurd. HOCO should follow USL guidelines and go age based next year. Probably won't because the FCAs, Looneys and Crabs of the world will fly the coop and start their own grade based league. Too bad USL has no teeth.

The grade based system is total black eye on the sport. Last season had soon to be 16 years olds (In the case of the Crabs - an actual 16 year old 2020 player) play against kids that are 13 or 14. Completely absurd. HOCO should follow USL guidelines and go age based next year. Probably won't because the FCAs, Looneys and Crabs of the world will fly the coop and start their own grade based league. Too bad USL has no teeth.

The grade based system is total black eye on the sport. Last season had soon to be 16 years olds (In the case of the Crabs - an actual 16 year old 2020 player) play against kids that are 13 or 14. Completely absurd. HOCO should follow USL guidelines and go age based next year. Probably won't because the FCAs, Looneys and Crabs of the world will fly the coop and start their own grade based league. Too bad USL has no teeth.

Or you could start a snowflake league. Membership would be through the roof.

No the snowflake league is what you have now. A bunch of holdbacks that cant compete with kids their own age. Maybe these snowflakes should hit the wall, toughen up, etc Then they might be able to compete with children their own age. The holdbacks need to playdown not play at age! That is a snowflake.

No the snowflake league is what you have now. A bunch of holdbacks that cant compete with kids their own age. Maybe these snowflakes should hit the wall, toughen up, etc Then they might be able to compete with children their own age. The holdbacks need to playdown not play at age! That is a snowflake.

The initial comment referenced 2020 kids (HS kids now), and there is no reason for a high school kid to play out of grade, in a grade-based league, where they are being evaluated by grade. If you are talking about youth levels, again there are age-based leagues (rec), and grade-based leagues (club). It is unreasonable for adults to criticize kids playing within the league criteria. Some chose to play up in both types of leagues, but that is a family decision. Criticize the league if you think you will get somewhere, but you won't, so probably just shut up.

An adult who likes to criticize kids (minors), playing within a system, instead of criticizing the league that mandates the system. Very cowardly, hence your official snowflake status, lifetime membership.

An adult who likes to criticize kids (minors), playing within a system, instead of criticizing the league that mandates the system. Very cowardly, hence your official snowflake status, lifetime membership.

The DMV Premier League by Next Level / PSS starts this week. Who's in it? Last year all the top D.C. Area clubs were in it.

BLC, Club Blue, 3D, Next Level.

Tough League

Tough league for B teams

HS leagues are and always have been grade based. Not one person has ever complained about that . I guess you must want some 2020 straw man to attack to make your point?? 2020 until this year wasnt HS.

Youth Lacrosse leagues have always been age based until last few years. Youth Leagues should be age based. Pretty simple concept except to apologists for a system that lets select kids play down. Maryland with its MIAA prefists/holdbacks have started a trend in youth lacrosse. The trend of getting my kid an advantage by being older than the majority of players in his Youth will continue and get bigger and bigger. Maybe you think that is a good trend for Youth lacrosse. The majority of people dont.
Just because a family decides to hold their child back doesnt give them some special right to an advantage others exact same age dont get when they are 8 years old thru 14 years old in Youth athletics?? With the new grade based leagues allowing it.. Maybe you think as long as the rules say it is ok, why not? The majority of people dont think it is right for youth sports . Youth sports has never been about giving select children an advantage.

I see..You can say start a snowflake league and will a membership (minors/players) through the roof . Which supposedly absolves you from the fray..But you dont actually explain what you mean. Of course yours is just implied. So that means its ok in your world. LOL
For being such a hypocrite and coward you get the lifetime membership along with a special award of a weasel snake badge for you implying what you accuse others of doing. Well done!

BLC, Club Blue, 3D, Next Level.

Tough League

At 2022, only BLC is any good.

At 2022, only BLC is any good.

At 2022, only BLC is any good.

There are just not many kids out there repeating grades for advantage at grade based club lax. The issue at this age is the fact that most private school kids do prefirst, and the average age spread between the two is about a year. The majority don't care, as the sport and club participation grows every year.

Yea. Hawks are terrible. Lol