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Pick the best school you could imagine your kid going to for lacrosse and my kid will probably go to that same school or better without having to play lacrosse.
So where is your edge?

Pick the best school you could imagine your kid going to for lacrosse and my kid will probably go to that same school or better without having to play lacrosse.
So where is your edge?

Okay I'll bite ... Harvard, Princeton and Stanford.
I promise you your kid isn't "probably" going to any of those schools because for a kid without a hook, it isn't probable for even the best students. So I don't get your point. The edge is that my kid is going to get to attend this type of institution for her college education, and yours likely isn't.

And here we go again. Everyone on here seems to be going to an Ivy or Stanford. Stop the madness. Judging by the meatheads rooting on their daughters on our team I'm having a tough time thinking there are a bunch of 100 GPA kids on the team

And here we go again. Everyone on here seems to be going to an Ivy or Stanford. Stop the madness. Judging by the meatheads rooting on their daughters on our team I'm having a tough time thinking there are a bunch of 100 GPA kids on the team

Lets hear it for the dreamers.

25 Top lax programs x 8 Recruits a class = 200 players

200 players, not in your HS, not in your county, not in your state, but in the whole damn country.

congrats and good luck to anyone that has a top 200 player in the US.

For the rest of us, our girls will be fine

If that is true , why you on a lax site telling us about how smart your kid is? Go find a science or chess club site!

There r 111 D1 girls programs. At least 25% of them, if not more, are extremely difficult academic institutions to get into without something like lax. It goes way beyond Ivies and Stanford. I won't make a complete list but how about Georegetown, Davidson, Colgate, William & Mary, Richmond, Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Boston College, Hopkins, Navy, Vanderbilt, Army, Michigan, Bucknell, Virginia ... plus more. All great schools, and all hard to get into. If lax can help a kid get to one of these type of places, I think it's a huge win for the kid.

My daughter is an awesome lacrosse player and after 4 years of getting 85's in an average HS, I want to send my daughter to a school where everyone else has a 100+ average and then I want her to play lacrosse for five hours a day between practice, meetings and gym training. Then I also want her to forego the major of her dreams and take her coaches choice major of basket weaving. All this sounds like a good recipe for success.

What are you? a life coach...maybe thats what some kids want to do...seems like the work is scaring you a little bit, no?

What are you? a life coach...maybe thats what some kids want to do...seems like the work is scaring you a little bit, no?

My daughter is an awesome lacrosse player and after 4 years of getting 85's in an average HS, I want to send my daughter to a school where everyone else has a 100+ average and then I want her to play lacrosse for five hours a day between practice, meetings and gym training. Then I also want her to forego the major of her dreams and take her coaches choice major of basket weaving. All this sounds like a good recipe for success.

I would tend to believe that the poster was compiling a fictional player/ athlete for illustrative purposes.

Ha. Your sarcasm is off the mark because you even contradict yourself. This is the problem with all of u who knock these talented kids. First it's a girl w 85s in average high school, but then she has "the major of her dreams" not basket weaving. Which is it? Is she a great student or not? And guess what, maybe that hypothetical daughter will surprise you, and actually rise to the occasion. It is, after all, much harder to get into these schools than to actual stay there. She will learn from her academic support staff and her peers how to become a better student, stretch herself, and graduate a much more accomplished and well-rounded person than she was when she got there. So yeah, maybe lax helped her get somewhere her academics alone couldn't, but I'll bet on your kid, even if you won't!

you guys ever get tired of the constant circle jerk?

You mean the one where YJ dads stand around CR?

Is that different from the one with you guys and BS?

Is that different from the one with you guys and BS?

No need to watch anymore if they can't throw and catch in a shuttle line!! You only need 30 minutes to watch the new ones. Be glad she gave you an hour!!

Ok. This sounds a little wacky, tryouts should not be conducted with girls bringing their "pinny" sounds more like remember me.. Instead of having a fair tryout too the girls both old and new. But I guess it wouldn't be any other way. Parents did the 2020's participate in tryouts today?

Apparently there are a lot of very unhappy TG players because there were many girls with TG apparel

Friends family and big payers stay on the A team. Unless their was a pre tryout weasel deal, newbies go to B or C teams regardless of whether they deserve to or not

Does it really matter what team your on? YJ will be stuck at that BS tourney (money grab) at Mitchell field while all the competitive teams are across the turnpike at the Hofstra tournament. If I was a Div 1 coach, where would I go to watch?

Does it really matter what team your on? YJ will be stuck at that BS tourney (money grab) at Mitchell field while all the competitive teams are across the turnpike at the Hofstra tournament. If I was a Div 1 coach, where would I go to watch?

Friends family and big payers stay on the A team. Unless their was a pre tryout weasel deal, newbies go to B or C teams regardless of whether they deserve to or not

I take exception to that, we got pushed off to the last group where my daughter lit up the overmatched girls continuously and no matter what she did, she didn't even get noticed at all.
It was pretty rough too say the least, she was jumping through hoops to get to the white jersey and get noticed and not a sniff.
She plays all winter with the top girls and doesn't claim to be as good, but she should have been taken seriously.

I take exception to that, we got pushed off to the last group where my daughter lit up the overmatched girls continuously and no matter what she did, she didn't even get noticed at all.
It was pretty rough too say the least, she was jumping through hoops to get to the white jersey and get noticed and not a sniff.
She plays all winter with the top girls and doesn't claim to be as good, but she should have been taken seriously.