ECNL wants to switch back to school year from birth year

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Title IX will prohibit the annihilation of women's sports. College soccer will live to see another day.

You're assuming that the incoming administration won't do away with Title IX. It could very well get lumped in when the DEI purge hits full steam which would suck

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You're assuming that the incoming administration won't do away with Title IX. It could very well get lumped in when the DEI purge hits full steam which would suck

Title 9 won't save women's soccer. Theres so many different femal non revenue sports colleges will choose which ones they invest in. What will happen is there will be much less college teams to play on. Or they'll only be at the expensive private colleges where parents are paying 60-80k a year to attend. Also scholorships are optional under the new NCAA agreement. This means players might get $$$ for playing but colleges do t need to offer scholorships if they don't want to.

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Age Groups - US Club Soccer Website

Found this on the US club website. Interesting that the 25/26 age groups are TBD.

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Age Groups - US Club Soccer Website

Found this on the US club website. Interesting that the 25/26 age groups are TBD.

Thats certainly ominous depending on your birthdate!

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What study is this from? Can you link to the study? Without having the study to reference, at face value these graphs make the "RAE doesn't matter after U12" guy look (even more) like a dummy.

The link won't go through, but search for "Mitigating against relative age effects in youth Track & Field: Validating corrective adjustment procedures across multiple events" by Brustio, and "Relative Age Effects in Athletic Sprinting and Corrective Adjustments as a Solution for Their Removal" by Romann if you're interested. They both also show that the more elite you filter toward, the more extreme RAE gets at the young ages. The boys are also living through more extreme RAE than the girls. Of course, it's all just a tangent, as the change is really about the problems from misalignment with school year, not arbitrarily picking winners and losers of RAE.