Age Categories for the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games
In light of the decision to postpone the Canada Summer Games in Niagara by a year, the Canada Games Council (CGC) has been working collaboratively with all affected National Sport Organizations (NSOs) to review each sport’s technical package and its athlete eligibility rules for 2022.
Where practical, sports have adjusted their age categories so that the same cohort of athletes that was eligible for the Games in 2021 will remain eligible for the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games.
With the exception of baseball, cycling, golf and rugby sevens, all approved age categories for sports on the 2022 Canada Games program can be found below.
For those sports highlighted above whose age categories have yet to be identified, the CGC Sport Committee continues to work closely with those NSOs in order to make a determination, and we expect a decision to be announced for each of these sports by early 2021.
Age categories are uniquely selected for each sport with the goal of developing Canada’s next generation of national team athletes in the “Train to Compete” phase of the Long Term Development Model (LTD), or another suitable phase of the LTD as justified by a NSO, and approved by the CGC Sport Committee.
The LTD is a general framework of athlete development that also forms the basis for sport-specific models created by each NSO in Canada.
Full Article: https://niagara2022games.ca/news/article/age-categories-for-the-niagara-2022-canada-summer-games/
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SOFTBALL
MALE: Under 22 as of December 31, 2021
–Year of birth: 2000 or later
AB, MB, NB: Eligible to select up to two [2] under 23 players
–Year of birth: 1999
NT, NU, PE, YT: Eligible to select up to three [3] under 23 players
–Year of birth: 1999
FEMALE: Under 19 as of December 31, 2021
–Year of birth: 2003 or later
NB, NL, NS: Eligible to select up to two [2] under 20 players
–Year of birth: 2002
NT, NU, PE, YT: Eligible to select up to three [3] under 20 players
–Year of birth: 2002
