IAC Lacrosse

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Anonymous wrote:I had the chance to see part of the Salisbury v. Ohio Weslyan game which was at Landon last Sunday. It was an amazingly fast game. And, it was nice to see kids from the various IAC schools milling about, plus Gonzaga and others. It's fun to think about how these same students from rival IAC schools (and Gonzaga!) often end up being teammates in college.

Less fun than you think. It rarely happens and when it does relations seem to stay pretty icy.
Based on long-standing anomosity between at least two of the schools.

I know. Had a son on a college team with a few from a few IAC schools.

This seems bizarre. In the MIAA, most of these kids are friends from club teams before they go to high school, they remain friends even while competing fiercely against each other at rival schools, and look forward to playing with/against each other in college. I feel like after almost every college game around here, you see a bunch of the players who went to different MIAA schools getting together for a picture. Maybe Baltimore is just more of a small town.

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IAC school kids and parents aren't allowed to like other people.

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Untrue. The parents are douches. The kids know each from club teams outside of high school. Once they get to college they are on the same team and friends. The same is for kids from LI and other areas who competed against each other in high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Untrue. The parents are douches. The kids know each from club teams outside of high school. Once they get to college they are on the same team and friends. The same is for kids from LI and other areas who competed against each other in high school.

Show me a single picture ever in which IAC grads posed together. It has never happened.

Different inter-school dynamic in DC.

I have lived this. I'm not just guessing or hoping what might occur.

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IAC parents are diabolical. Especially GP, Landon and Bullis people with the religious and whose country club is better undercurrents swirling around everywhere they go. Usually when parents take prep school sports rivalries very seriously you have to think they need to get a life. With these parents, they are just beyond any therapy or other intervention to make it better.

Unfortunately all kids who start pure just live in that vortex too long while they are young and follow the same path. Notice how nearly all IAC ex-lacrosse kids just wind up back home with their parents after college and settle into the same jobs and the same cycle all over again? It's like an upper middle class jail with no parole.

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i know of several IAC lacrosse players killing it on Wall Street and donate big money back to their alma maters..

oh the jealousy PP.....

My son graduated from an IAC school and started a job on wall street this past summer. So far its been grueling for him, but through sports in HS and College he has learned to tough things out and see it through. And Yes he makes a fair amount of money for a kid who is 22 year old, right out of college.

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Anonymous wrote:i know of several IAC lacrosse players killing it on Wall Street and donate big money back to their alma maters..

oh the jealousy PP.....

My son graduated from an IAC school and started a job on wall street this past summer. So far its been grueling for him, but through sports in HS and College he has learned to tough things out and see it through. And Yes he makes a fair amount of money for a kid who is 22 year old, right out of college.

What? No grad school?

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most banks will pay for grad school after you work for a 2 -3 years and commit to coming back to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IAC parents are diabolical. Especially GP, Landon and Bullis people with the religious and whose country club is better undercurrents swirling around everywhere they go. Usually when parents take prep school sports rivalries very seriously you have to think they need to get a life. With these parents, they are just beyond any therapy or other intervention to make it better.

Unfortunately all kids who start pure just live in that vortex too long while they are young and follow the same path. Notice how nearly all IAC ex-lacrosse kids just wind up back home with their parents after college and settle into the same jobs and the same cycle all over again? It's like an upper middle class jail with no parole.

Interesting take. But you have the direction of the flow wrong.

The antipathy starts with the coaches, administrators, teachers, etc and the alumni and alumni who are also parents. There's a long history here, especially between Prep and Landon.

It moves to the kids, who have the things they have been told to expect take form in their own experiences.

It then moves to the non-alumni parents (the alumni parents are already on-board). They reason it must be that other school. because there can't be anything wrong with our school or students.

In my experience, it's the Landon parents who are most likely to deny this antipathy and who say it's either not as bad as it used to be because kids have been team mates on youth teams or that it will go away if the boys go top college together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IAC parents are diabolical. Especially GP, Landon and Bullis people with the religious and whose country club is better undercurrents swirling around everywhere they go. Usually when parents take prep school sports rivalries very seriously you have to think they need to get a life. With these parents, they are just beyond any therapy or other intervention to make it better.

Unfortunately all kids who start pure just live in that vortex too long while they are young and follow the same path. Notice how nearly all IAC ex-lacrosse kids just wind up back home with their parents after college and settle into the same jobs and the same cycle all over again? It's like an upper middle class jail with no parole.

Interesting take. But you have the direction of the flow wrong.

The antipathy starts with the coaches, administrators, teachers, etc and the alumni and alumni who are also parents. There's a long history here, especially between Prep and Landon.

It moves to the kids, who have the things they have been told to expect take form in their own experiences.

It then moves to the non-alumni parents (the alumni parents are already on-board). They reason it must be that other school. because there can't be anything wrong with our school or students.

In my experience, it's the Landon parents who are most likely to deny this antipathy and who say it's either not as bad as it used to be because kids have been team mates on youth teams or that it will go away if the boys go top college together.

These threads are just so bizarre. It seems like the only comments on here are from bitter outsiders who want it to be terrible. I played lacrosse at an IAC school and was great friends with college teamates who went to other IAC schools. I currently have many friends who played at other IAC schools. My son plays at an IAC school and he and our family are close friends with the boys and families from his club team. These crazy bitter rants bear no resemblence to my experience. Somehow, in the last 30 years, I have failed to meet the angry, maladjusted people who hate and are hated by everyone around them. Life is way too short, stop the jealousy, be happy, make friends.

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+1
Who are these people that make crazy claims about the kids from different schools never becoming friends? What psycho is keeping a tally of "post game pics" of college players?

I wonder what pathology leads some to park on this thread and continue to make these posts. I just hope that parents who read don't try to steer their kids to/away from a particular school or sport based on these fallacies.

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Bad day for area lacrosse powerhouses yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:Bad day for area lacrosse powerhouses yesterday.

MIAA just better

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad day for area lacrosse powerhouses yesterday.

MIAA just better

Is that why Bullis beat McDonogh?

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Kudos to the likes of Landon and Bullis for playing tough out of conference teams.