Originally Posted by Anonymous
Just to put some perspective on what coaches and evaluators of recruits put a premium on, we can look at the example of last years top freshman recruit in the nation. Certainly was not scoring an overinflated amount of meaningless goals in crappy games to pad the stats. In fact she was like the third or forth scorer on her HS team. Why was she valued so high? Go watch the kid play, the eye test. Flying around with a non stop motor, making plays all over the field. You can be the "game changer" without ever scoring a goal. Here is what the stat line does not tell you. One kid can score 100 goals feasting on a weak defender or two that most of the opposing teams seem to have, yet may have 0 goals against a good defense or when her team needs a goal. Another kid may have 20 goals, but all quality goals that came in the time of need for her team. Some kids get it, and are actually embarrassed to put in 5 goals in a 20-2 beat down. Others don't get it and are happy to pile on in those beat downs, and unfortunately you get the parents buying into the numbers.


Too bad many parents do not understand. One of the biggest problems with HS Lacrosse is that parents who do not know the game continually advise and coach their daughters. Some even do it during the game from the sideline. One particular parent on my daughters team will even boast that he tell his daughter what to do before the game. This man knows very little and he does not realize he is actually hurting the team. And by the way, his daughter does not fit the description above.