Why is college used as the primary driver for youth lacrosse?
It's not used in football or soccer and they have 10x the amount of kids playing.

Last fall at a tourney the big push was the large amount of college coaches that would be there watching.
No college coach cares about your 11 yr old.
Of course the shady private school parents cheated and play their 13yr old's down against the 11 yr old's so their kids look good in front of these "college coaches"