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I was talking about age was the 19 after August 1st. As for as I know this has been a rule forever. As for as AAU I know of a team Whitley , Knox Co area that made it to the championship game at nationals couple years ago, that if I was guessing was all hold back. I know several of them and they was all hold backs. I believe they are freshmen and sophomores now.My daughter play on a team that played up in age group in every tournament they played in, and they was in the Final four in every tournament they entered and won 2 of the 8 tournaments they entered. They had 2 hold backs and 1 late starter in there group that I know about. When I was first approached about holding mine back my wife was not for it at all. She is a school teacher so we went and talked to the principle and he informed us he was a hold back,and he gave us the pros and cons and the pros outweighed the cons by a lot in our eyes. By the way I have two children and I only held my youngest one back, also my oldest was the best athlete by a lot. My wife and I consider not holding our oldest back one of the worst mistakes we made in raising our children. She likes 6 hours graduating from college after 5 years LOL She was just so immature when she left highshool that she had no idea what she wanted to do and it took a couple years to figure out what she wanted to do. My youngest graduated from high school with 24 college credits and had a plan that she has stuck to so for.