Last March, US Lacrosse announced a very different way of segmenting youth lacrosse age groups. As part of their overhaul of US Lacrosse's player development program, they went back and examined the age groupings for youth lacrosse. This was done in light of the sport growing and recruiting starting younger and younger. They also wanted to make the sport safer and ensure that players were on the field with other players close to them in age.

3 Major Takeaways



1) Age groups are determined based on a calendar that starts on September 1st (instead of January) and ends August 31st.

2) At the youth level, there are now age groups for every single age, e.g. 14U, 13U. Previously it was every two years: u15 u13 u11 etc.

3) At the high school level (also known as scholastic) they are attempting to keep players from playing down after re-classing.