Darien Youth Lacrosse Travel Policy - Effective for the Upcoming 2025 Season

The Connecticut New York Youth Lacrosse Association ("CONNY") has notified DYLAX and all of its members that all decisions relating to age segmentation must now be made by individual member organizations. CONNY will no longer consider waiver requests.

Beginning with the 2025 Spring Season, our standard age segmentation policies will remain in effect, see below, with the additional modifications for travel players highlighted for your attention.

CONNY Age Segmentation Policy: In order to keep as many players as possible with their grade classmates, without compromising safety by encouraging too wide age spreads, the CONNY Executive Committee in 2019 moved the oldest birthday permitted for each year group from the September 1st to the July 1st preceding the season (except 14U Seniors for which the birthday eligibility date remains the March 1st preceding the season to accommodate very old-in-grade 8th graders who would not otherwise have a place to play in the spring). Thus, the player segmentation birthday cutoff dates are represented below:

* Darien Youth Lacrosse does not offer travel programs for these age groups.

All teams are organized by birth year, with single birth year teams strongly preferred. Where numbers or other circumstances don’t allow that, two birth year combined teams are permitted within a CONNY Age Division (e.g. Junior, Senior).

Darien Youth Lacrosse Age Segmentation Policy

Age Segmentation for the DYLAX Travel Program

• Boys and girls interested in playing DYLAX Travel with birthdays before July 1st of the previous grade year (e.g. a child born before July 1st and began K at age 6) must play 5th - 8th grade travel with the grade ahead.
   
• 8th Grade Travel Players – New for 2025: Any player who has graduated from 8th grade at their previous school (regardless of public or private) and is repeating their 8th grade year is no longer eligible to play for 8A or 8B, even as a “practice player.” That player is only eligible to play 7/8 Seniors.
   
• Waivers/Petitions for Travel Players – New for 2025: DYLAX will not be accepting any waivers/petitions relating to age segmentation regardless of grade for our travel program.

Age Segmentation for the DYLAX House Program
Our House program conforms to these guidelines,outlined below unless it is determined by our Directors* a player should stay in grade. 

• 2nd  graders who are age segmented will play 3rd / 4th  house*

• 3rd  graders who are age segmented will play 3rd / 4th  house*

• 4th  graders who are age segmented will play 5th / 6th house*

• 4th  graders who are age segmented may try out for a 5th grade travel team

• 5th  graders who are age segmented will play 5th / 6th house*

• 5th  graders who are age segmented may try out for a 6th grade travel team

• 6th  graders who play 7th grade travel (A or B teams)  may also play 5th / 6th  house  

• 6th graders who are age segmented and do not make a 7th grade travel team will not play 7/8 Senior team, they will play 5th /6th house 

• 7th graders who are age segmented may try out for 8th grade travel teams, if they don't make the A or B or if they don't wish to try out  can play 7 / 8 Seniors which play other towns.