Lacrosse Culture at St Albans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a tough sport snowflake. These are young men swinging sticks at each other. STA has a great crew team for you.

Dude or Dudette. Take it down a notch. Crew people are people too.

[Anonymous]

It is a tough sport and Sta is really good at it but they aren't hitting each other with sticks. It's a different mentality in sports like football and lacrosse than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I would rather have my son attend Brown to play a sport he loves than just about any school you could name.

A challenging school to get into academically, and there is a Ben & Jerry's and Chipotle on Thayer Street. There are lots of fine schools out there, with these enhancements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a tough sport snowflake. These are young men swinging sticks at each other. STA has a great crew team for you.

Looks like Friday Happy Hour as started a wee bit early for some.

Yet another defining characteristic of many laxers and their parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope these great attitudes persist into the season and onto the field. These boys showed some less than stellar sportsmanship throughout the season last year.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a tough sport snowflake. These are young men swinging sticks at each other. STA has a great crew team for you.

Looks like Friday Happy Hour as started a wee bit early for some.

Yet another defining characteristic of many laxers and their parents.

You may want to have a drink once in awhile. Might help you get a sense of humor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a tough sport snowflake. These are young men swinging sticks at each other. STA has a great crew team for you.

Looks like Friday Happy Hour as started a wee bit early for some.

Yet another defining characteristic of many laxers and their parents.

You may want to have a drink once in awhile. Might help you get a sense of humor.

Drink once in awhile? The defining characteristic of any self-respecting, true to oneself lax parent at st a is that you failed AA. Pass that solo cup, bitches...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a tough sport snowflake. These are young men swinging sticks at each other. STA has a great crew team for you.

Looks like Friday Happy Hour as started a wee bit early for some.

Yet another defining characteristic of many laxers and their parents.

You may want to have a drink once in awhile. Might help you get a sense of humor.

Drink once in awhile? The defining characteristic of any self-respecting, true to oneself lax parent at st a is that you failed AA. Pass that solo cup, bitches...

Ah, the culture ar STA.

[Anonymous]

I have watched kids' football and lacrosse games for yrars, and there is no question that lacrosse is not in the same league as football when it comes to being "a tough sport." You may run more consistently in certain positions, but the contact isn't comparable.

[Anonymous]

Yes; let's parse words and draw pretty lines. Is lax tougher than crew with regard to contact? Or tennis? Or golf. Try not to be so myopic tough guy football dad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes; let's parse words and draw pretty lines. Is lax tougher than crew with regard to contact? Or tennis? Or golf. Try not to be so myopic tough guy football dad.

Not being myopic, just have concerns about football injuries but not lax injuries bc I don't think of lax as a tough contact sport.

[Anonymous]

Them you aren't paying attention troll. They wear helmets, pads and gloves for a reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes; let's parse words and draw pretty lines. Is lax tougher than crew with regard to contact? Or tennis? Or golf. Try not to be so myopic tough guy football dad.

Not being myopic, just have concerns about football injuries but not lax injuries bc I don't think of lax as a tough contact sport.

Typical dc and dcum ja. Would rather defend a losing position to the end rather than move on. You are the person who corrects someone when they say it takes about 15 minutes and you have to chime and say "no, 13."

[Anonymous]

Are the bonds forged by lacrosse any stronger than the bonds formed by any other sports team at St. Albans?

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Anonymous wrote:Have heard of issues with middle school “lax bro” culture. We are new to the school but my son is in the Upper School. He’s a good player, maybe even considered talented, but this whole lax bro culture I’ve heard about generally, and specifically at other all boys area schools, concerns me. What’s the lacrosse culture like at St. Albans?

What issues? Is this 8th lax or 7th too?

Can’t speak to 7th. But 8th, the Devils Incarnate. Thank the gods for the 9th and 10th grade laxers. Nice kids as a group. STA, be careful what you wish for...a winnng lax team is not worth admitting sons of douche bags who played in the 80s when a Chevy membership and lots of flow got you admitted to the best schools....Just sayin

This is concerning. My older kids said there are already problems with a group of lax players in 8th. Adding more problem lax families will make it an even larger group to contend with. I thought STA was focusing on its culture.