Play Up Policy

Players will normally play in their own age group. Request for exception to this policy will be considered only by the Travel Commissioner in the following circumstances: 

- When approval would be in the best interests of SYC; the two age groups involved; and the individual. As guidelines, the following factors should be considered:

-- SYC tries to field the most competitive teams possible in each age group. To take a good player away from his/her teams own age group generally weakens his/her team without substantially improving the older age group team.

-- Each age group has a limited number of children from which traveling teams can be constructed. A reasonable balance of the number of children available must be struck for each age group.

- Requests for permission to play for an older age group must be made via email by the player's parent(s) not the coach or manager.

- A coach may not, under any circumstances, offer a place on a team to any player from a younger age group before approval for that player to "play up" has been received from the Travel Commissioner. Violation of this provision is cause for possible removal of the offending coach. The coach of a team trying out a younger player must immediately notify all coaches of the player's correct age group.

- Disagreements with any decisions regarding requests to deviate from the policy of playing in your own age group shall be resolved in accordance with the procedures in Chapter 6 of the soccer program guide.

- A player authorized to "play up within SYC" retains that authorization as long as they remain a member of that age group.

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