2025 Boys' Commits
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Anonymous
| Nope. If he is truly a top recruit (4 or 5 star) those grades are fine. Assuming, however, that the course load is at least semi rigorous (mix of AP and honors courses, appropriate number of science and math courses, focus on a language) rather than basic courses where those grades don't really reflect very much. My player had similar grades at a private school and got in to a HYP. Also a good idea to put up a solid SAT or ACT score just in case they don't remain test optional and/or the coach wants scores to bolster overall AI. |
Anonymous
If you can afford it and donate, then no. |
Anonymous
But why would anyone want to go now? All CRT and ideology. |
Anonymous
| So public school kids have to go private school to get recruited? |
Anonymous
| No not necessarily, heard he had to rehab a shoulder injury which played a role in it. |
Anonymous
Well STA certainly sucks at lacrosse commitments to college. They have some of the lowest numbers in lax recruiting in the DMV. If you want to play lax at the collegiate level do not go tot STA. Facts. |
Anonymous
Recruiting is more about club than high school, but the better players tend to go private, often because their club coaches encourage it. Lake Braddock had three D1 commits last year but that was rare. Usually only a handful of public kids in NOVA go D1 each year. |
Anonymous
STA 2023 class had at least 6 College commits. Definitely fewer than some of the other programs, but don’t think that constitutes “sucking”. |
Anonymous
One half way decent class doesn’t make up for all the other years. STA has some of the lowest, if not the lowest college commits for lacrosse. If you want to play lacrosse in college do not go to STA. The competition level just isn’t the same. Only reason to attend STA is if your lacrosse player isn’t good enough to play on the top teams in the DMV. Boys who don’t play much on the top teams can start on the STA varsity team. And vice versa, the majority of kids who start on STA’s team likely wouldn’t play much on top teams. STA is just on a lower level and does not have the talent nor depth of top DMV teams. |
Anonymous
Couple of problems with that: STA's tuition is one of the highest in the area and might be the highest with the donation "suggestions" and the academic standards aren't lowered for lacrosse players. They also prefer to admit legacies with family $$ rather than new families with no association to the school. I'll give credit to Heeter though, he's not afraid to schedule games and he's done better with what he has more so than any STA coach long before him. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, that’s still not saying much. STA had its most talented senior class in decades with the 2023 class and they still ended up at the bottom of the IAC. Very disappointing. They just play at a different (lower) level and this year will not be any different. |
Anonymous
These are excuses. Many lacrosse players come from wealthy families and are academically strong students. The IAC, especially, is full of teams with wealthy students who are strong academically. The Ivy League is especially picky about academics and recruiting strong academic students. Plenty of Ivy lax commits out of schools like Georgetown Prep, Bullis, Gonzaga, and Landon. Saying STA is disadvantaged because of high tuition and strong academics, is just an excuse. STA is disadvantaged because they have a weak program and history in lax. Strong players who hope to play in college will choose a historically strong program that competes at the highest level with the strongest teammates. |
Anonymous
Those aren't excuses. Those are reasons. If you are choosing a school because your kid might go to play at Tampa or Lafayette to play lax, that's a pretty bad decision process. STA is a high level academic high school which tries to be competitive at sports without going to the lengths of the WCAC and some of the other schools in the area with certain sports. I don't have it at my fingertips, but I'm pretty sure STA places a very close percentage of players in Ivy/equivalent schools. After that, I don't think the average STA student and family are really interested in going to Jacksonville. Many families don't bother applying to STA because of the significant barriers to admission. |
Anonymous
What? Try writing a coherent response. 🙄 Who said anything about "choosing a school because your kid might go to play at Tampa or Lafayette to play lax"? Also, suggesting "STA places a very close percentage of players in Ivy/equivalent schools" is a joke. Besides the 2023 class, STA has had very few lax college commits each year. And who said anything about Jacksonville? To suggest STA is above sending their student-athletes to lower ranked schools, I say just look at the football team. They recruited the starting quarterback from Good Counsel in 2020 who then ended up at Elizabeth City State University. He is one example of a player (although not lax) who most likely would have been better off if he had stayed at GC. For educational purposes: STA 2018 class - 1 commit to Amherst STA 2019 class - 1 commit to Brown STA 2020 class - no lax commits STA 2021 class - 1 commit to Bowdoin STA 2022 class - 2 commits to Amherst and Sewanee STA 2023 class (best ever) - 6 commits to Penn (2), Bowdoin (2), Cornell, Wesleyan STA 2024 class - no lax commits STA 2025 class - 1 commit to Colgate so far In Comparison: Prep 2018 - 4 commits to Penn, Dartmouth, Bucknell, Richmond Prep 2019 - 8 commits to Georgetown, Dartmouth, UNC, Virginia, Colgate, Villanova, Navy, Fairfield Prep 2020 - 8 commits to UNC, Tufts, Boston University, Drexel, Lehigh (2), Penn State, Kenyon Prep 2021 - 13 commits to Notre Dame (2), Penn, Navy, Amherst, Maryland, Bowdoin, Lehigh (2), Saint Joseph's, Colorado College, Ohio Northern , NJIT Prep 2022 - 4 commits to Virginia, Navy, Bowdoin, Bellarmine Prep 2023 - 11 commits to Princeton (2), Georgetown, Army, Colgate, Haverford, Marquette, Christopher Newport, Tampa, St. Bonaventure, Boston University Prep 2024 - 8 commits to Duke, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Villanova, Maryland, Dickinson, Tampa Prep 2025 - 4 commits so far to Penn, UNC, Fairfield, Saint Joseph's Landon 2018 - 8 commits to Penn State, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Bucknell, Fairfiled, Michigan, Maryland, Salisbury Landon 2019 - 5 commits to Richmond, Gettysburg (2), Colby, Tufts, Landon 2020 - 4 commits to Harvard, Navy, Denver, Ohio Wesleyan Landon 2021 - 4 commits to Yale, Penn, Michigan, Amherst Landon 2022 - 8 commits to Dartmouth (2), Navy, Michigan, Colby, Hobart, Ohio State, Dickinson Landon 2023 - 7 commits to Dartmouth, Denison, Bowdoin, Washington and Lee, Dickinson, Monmouth, Ohio Wesleyan Landon 2024 - 7 commits to Georgetown, Bowdoin, Bucknell, Tufts, Delaware (2), Utah Landon 2025 - 4 commits so far to Princeton, Penn, Bucknell, Lafayette |
Anonymous
Wow. You must be a complete douche. |