Originally Posted by Anonymous
Some families see lacrosse as an advantage in obtaining admission to Ivy league schools. Girls recruited to Duke, Notre Dame and ACC schools etc may choose an Ivy wanting to be competitive but not entirely focused on winning a Final Four. Although lacrosse is a big part of the lives of these young girls, they may not want it to be the major component of their college life. You have to find a balance of what works for you. To assume the girls who choose Ivies, Stanford as well as top academic DIII schools like Amherst and Williams were not being recruited to the big lacrosse schools is naive. This seems to be the trend amongst districts like Garden City, Manhasset and Cold Spring Harbor. I am sure girls from these schools play spead out on several of the Lacrosse clubs on Long Island like Yellow Jackets, Top Gun and Liberty. The web sites for all of these clubs show girls attending various colleges to play lacrosse. Liberty seems to have a large percentage of Ivy League attendees and commits.


The beauty of Non Ivy is they can get most anybody in just look at the press conferences from some of the other sports at these big schools you mention. They have trouble putting a sentance together. Thats why they can commit to a 8th or 9th grader who havent even taken the PSAT. The big clubs want to put you up on their website as soon as they can because it gives them a competitive advantage