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Little League Age Determination - Starting 2006 Season
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (May 9, 2005) The Little League International Board of Directors, governing body for the worlds largest organized youth sports program, has accepted a recommendation from USA Baseball to change the league age determination date for its players starting in the 2006 season.
The league age determination date is the age a player has attained as of a specific date, for the purpose of placing the player in a particular division. For more than 55 years in Little League, that date was July 31.
Starting in 2006, the date in all division of Little League Baseball will be April 30 of the current year. The date in all divisions of Little League Softball will be Dec. 31 of the previous year.
USA Baseball represents amateur baseball in the U.S. as a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the International Baseball Association Federation (IBAF). Virtually every major national youth baseball organization in the U.S., including Little League, is a USA Baseball National Member. USA Baseball recommended that the league age determination date be changed from July 31 to April 30, for the 2006 season for all youth baseball organizations.
The change was made in softball to reflect the fact that most national youth softball organizations use Dec. 31 as the league age determination date.
Also, the Little League International Board of Directors approved a change that provides an option for 12-year-olds to play up in the Junior Division. See the question/answer segment in the link below for more information on this, as well as implications for 2006 in the Tee Ball division.
For complete information on this decision, please visit the Little League web site link below (or click on the headline of this bulletin).
www.littleleague.org/media/age_change_May05.asp
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