Pop Warner has nine tackle football divisions: Tiny-Mite, Mitey-Mite, Junior Peewee, Peewee, Junior Midget, Midget, Junior Bantam, Unlimited and Bantam. The listing below will give you additional details about the weight and age classes for each. You'll see that some classes are exempt from the "older but lighter" mixed ranking arrangement:
- Tiny-Mite: Ages 5, 6 and 7 (35-75 lbs.); No older but lighter
- Mitey-Mite: Ages 7, 8 and 9 (45-90 lbs.); No older but lighter
- Junior Peewee: Ages 8, 9 and 10 (60-105 lbs.); also older but lighter 11-year-olds (60-85 lbs.)
- Peewee: Ages 9, 10 and 11 (75-120 lbs.); also older but lighter 12-year-olds (75-100 lbs.)
- Junior Midget: Ages 10, 11 and 12 (85-135 lbs.); also older but lighter 13-year-olds (85-115 lbs.)
- Midget: Ages 11, 12 13 and 14 (105-160 lbs.); also older but lighter 15-year-olds (105-140 lbs.)
- Junior Bantam: Ages 12, 13 and 14 (120-170 lbs.); also older but lighter 15-year-olds (120-150 lbs.)
- Unlimited: Ages 12, 13, 14 and 15 (170 plus lbs.); No older but lighter
- Bantam: Ages 13, 14 and 15 (135-185 lbs.); also older but lighter 16-year-olds (135-165 lbs.)
Since age and weight specifics are important in deciding a child's football division, Pop Warner establishes a player's age for the season as "his or her age as of July 31st." After the second game in the season, a player is allowed to gain up to a pound a week to a maximum of nine pounds total for the year.
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