How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?
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Anonymous
| If you don’t start playing from late elementary school, it’s impossible to make it at the high school level |
Anonymous
| Hit the wall |
Anonymous
Look for lessons. For example: https://thestjameslacrosse.com/training/ Then participate in off-season leagues as a add-on, might not see a ton of field time, but you can see how the game is played. And like the other poster said, hit the wall. |
Anonymous
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No it is not impossible at all. My kids is super coordinated. Very competitive spirit. Also super tiny when he started his growth spurt did not happen til 11th grade. My son never picked up a lacrosse stick til 8th grade. Made varsity as a freshman. No club teams ever. Public HS tryouts in MD. A strong team went to states many times etc.. Division 1 college. My son hit the wall with that lax ball so often my poor neighbors must have had headaches from the sound of that lax ball hiting a piece of wood in my backyard. |
Anonymous
Cool story but did not happen here in the DMV there has not been one local D1 commit in the last 10 years that did no club and came from a public HS. Also in those years many local D1 kids were recruited in 8th grade. There are not many d1 commits each year and it is a small world this story is highly suspect. |
Anonymous
Damn. Lacrosse is so competitive now |
Anonymous
Don't sweat this guy, ^^ his attention span is instagram max, and also where he gets his media and info. Lacrosse is not one of the few sports you have to be playing from the cradle. Certainly any decent athlete can apply. It's not a mistake that many of the guys getting plucked nowadays are 24/7/365 average sized private school kids who have the access, higher motivation and push to be "D1". They've created their own market, but it's not because they played in 4th grade. |
Anonymous
| Most D1 recruits did play since elementary school |
Anonymous
Well, that's true, probably. Has nothing to do with it being "impossible". Never mind the OP's trolling thread incubation of it being "impossible to make it at the high school level" and "how do you deal with it"?!?!? You're being trolled. |
Anonymous
You both took a weird take on this- go back to the OP- Not playing early to making the HS team. Thanks for adding in the recruiting and at a D1 level no less, but get back to answer his question |
Anonymous
This. Very doable if disciplined. |
Anonymous
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My son who never picked up a lacrosse stick until after he was cut from the freshman basketball team then tried out for and JV lacrosse at a FCPS high school as a freshman. He made varsity as a sophomore. He’s is a junior now and is hopeful that he will get a lot more playing time on varsity this year.
Several of his teammates did not play lacrosse until high school. |
Anonymous
| My middle son never picked up a lacrosse stick until just weeks before tryouts his sophomore year. Made JV that year and played all season. The next year he played V (decent minutes) with a team of several D1 commits. His senior year, he was a starter. He plays D3 lacrosse now. He also never played club lacrosse, because he played another sport that didn't allow for it. My second son is following the same path, except he actually played JV lacrosse as a freshman, then V as a sophomore (some minutes) and junior (starter). He will play his senior year this spring. |
Anonymous
| Is lacrosse way less competitive than soccer for boys? Or are the rosters a lot larger? Or maybe the skills needed for lacrosse just carry over from other sports more easily? It seems hard to believe kids can pick up a sport in HS and make the team when for soccer the boys practically need to be playing in national level leagues. |
Anonymous
In FCPS lacrosse is massively less competitive to make the high school teams than soccer |