Patrice Wilson wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 7/19/01 -0500, Wayne T. Armbrust wrote:
>
> >I have never been involved in Youth Athletics, so please excuse what may be a
> >dumb question, but has anyone ever proposed aligning our age groups with the
> >international age groups, i.e., making Young Men and Young Women unable to
> >turn
> >18 during the year?
> >
> >Wayne, the problem with that situation in the U.S. is that internationally
> >they run an age group program of 19-under as well as 23 -under. They have
> >no collegiate programs. That's why Canada follows our format instead of
> >Europe, because they also run collegiate programs.
> >
I still don't see why we can't align our youth age groups with the rest of the
world. We are forced to use the international definition of a junior when sending
people to the World Juniors, and we also follow this at our Junior Championships.
Why can't we adopt international definitions for the other age groups?
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