HS Private school GIRLS Tryouts

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Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

She plays midfield just as a straight-up athlete she is also a 4 year varsity starter for basketball and plays AAU outside of school and is extremely bright looking to major in engineering.

Yeah, I don't see this happening at a top or even good private DC-area school, which I think is what we are talking about. Those teams may have starting midfielders who are future D1 players who are not only good athletes, but would have years of lacrosse training and outstanding stick skills. I don't care how good an athlete is; they are not going to be able to play at that level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

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Name 2 in the last 4 years.

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Perkhorn from Marshall. Not only did she do it at lax but she also picked up field hockey as a freshman and was all conference as a sophomore and committed to Villanova as a jr!

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Anonymous wrote:Perkhorn from Marshall. Not only did she do it at lax but she also picked up field hockey as a freshman and was all conference as a sophomore and committed to Villanova as a jr!

You're kidding right, Marshall lacrosse ? btw - congratulations on the commitment to Villanova field hockey, not lacrosse. I'd say this player represents more about how easy it is to succeed in field hockey than lacrosse.

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Anonymous wrote:Perkhorn from Marshall. Not only did she do it at lax but she also picked up field hockey as a freshman and was all conference as a sophomore and committed to Villanova as a jr!

You're kidding right, Marshall lacrosse ? btw - congratulations on the commitment to Villanova field hockey, not lacrosse. I'd say this player represents more about how easy it is to succeed in field hockey than lacrosse.

Really because the stats kind of tell a different story on that. The actual odds of a hs laxer going on to play in college is around 14% field hockey 10%. So tell us again how FH is so much easier…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1453621/high-school-female-athlete-college-odds/

[Anonymous]

I think this debate is over. A single example of a field hockey commit at a public not known for athletic prowess does not comprise a successful argument that a great athlete can pick up a lacrosse stick in high school and start at a top private. This should be pretty obvious.

Starting middies at top area privates are both great athletes and outstanding lacrosse players. They have both skill and athletic foundation. They will have played for high level clubs for years and spent countless hours training on their own. Really difficult to show up and compete with that, no matter how athletic.

A couple of years of work in high school for a great athlete would make it possible to be a strong defender, but not a starting middie.

[Anonymous]

Oh boy, field hockey mom of marshall is put off because she gave an example of how her daughter got into Villanova on field hockey instead of lacrosse and then has to say how hard it was. Don't worry mom, she's awesome and it was super tough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perkhorn from Marshall. Not only did she do it at lax but she also picked up field hockey as a freshman and was all conference as a sophomore and committed to Villanova as a jr!

You're kidding right, Marshall lacrosse ? btw - congratulations on the commitment to Villanova field hockey, not lacrosse. I'd say this player represents more about how easy it is to succeed in field hockey than lacrosse.

Really because the stats kind of tell a different story on that. The actual odds of a hs laxer going on to play in college is around 14% field hockey 10%. So tell us again how FH is so much easier…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1453621/high-school-female-athlete-college-odds/

Field Hockey is a much easier sport to be proficient at then lacrosse but harder to play in college due to the international kids that get recruited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

This is in no way a made-up scenario this girl who plays middie was 2nd team all-conference last year in a conference full of high-level D1 middie commits. It happened, and it happens more than you probably think. Please show any of us where you saw a claim that it was a "Top private"? I for sure did not see someone claim it was at GC, SR, Visi, or SSASA just that it happened at a local private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

This is in no way a made-up scenario this girl who plays middie was 2nd team all-conference last year in a conference full of high-level D1 middie commits. It happened, and it happens more than you probably think. Please show any of us where you saw a claim that it was a "Top private"? I for sure did not see someone claim it was at GC, SR, Visi, or SSASA just that it happened at a local private.

The original post mentioned those schools. What it comes down to is there is no proof and the original story keeps changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

This is in no way a made-up scenario this girl who plays middie was 2nd team all-conference last year in a conference full of high-level D1 middie commits. It happened, and it happens more than you probably think. Please show any of us where you saw a claim that it was a "Top private"? I for sure did not see someone claim it was at GC, SR, Visi, or SSASA just that it happened at a local private.

The original post mentioned those schools. What it comes down to is there is no proof and the original story keeps changing.

The OPs' list also mentioned several other WCAC schools besides GC that most would probably not consider to be top programs but are still usually competitive and play at a high level.

"GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

This is in no way a made-up scenario this girl who plays middie was 2nd team all-conference last year in a conference full of high-level D1 middie commits. It happened, and it happens more than you probably think. Please show any of us where you saw a claim that it was a "Top private"? I for sure did not see someone claim it was at GC, SR, Visi, or SSASA just that it happened at a local private.

The original post mentioned those schools. What it comes down to is there is no proof and the original story keeps changing.

The OPs' list also mentioned several other WCAC schools besides GC that most would probably not consider to be top programs but are still usually competitive and play at a high level.

"GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell"

Playing for a school like Marshall, where they averaged 4.5 goals in all games and less than 2 goals a game in their losses, is hardly worth bringing up in any context whatsoever. Yes, I believe a good athlete could start for teams like this but not really validating any kind of point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse at the top 6 or so WCAC schools
GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell all cut Girls from both JV and Varsity, and none of them are going to do equal play on either level they are looking to win. If your DD is new to the sport or just a below-average player who needs work she may only see the game time in blowout wins or losses. That being said I have seen very athletic girls pick up a stick one week for the first time and they just get it, and by the season's end, they are on varsity starting. So I would encourage you to have her try out regardless because you really just never know.

did she play defense? was the varsity team not very good?
you are definitely pointing out an exception rather than the norm.

A Varsity Starter in less than a season?!?! On top of academics and team practices everyday, this girl must have hit the wall a tremendous amount to have the stick skills to beat out other Varsity girls to start in such a short amount of time.

Yea, believe it or not there are a ton of more athletic girls out there playing other sports that are just much better than your daughter who’s not as athletic but been playing lax for 10 years. Yes, there will be some girls that walk right on the field and pick back up bc they played until 5-6 grade and then stopped to focus on their main sport. But all along they’ve been working out 3 hours a day, seven days a week forever by now and they’re extremely fit, fast and athletic. Give them a year with a stick in their hands playing
against less superior athletes on JV and their coming for your daughters starting spot on varsity….at least I know my daughters coming for you haha!

This made up scenario was that some girl was able to pick up a stick for the first time, and after 2-3 months of playing varsity (not one year), became the Starting Middie of one of the Top Private High Schools beating out future D1 Commits. We all can dream. Maybe your daughter can be first!

This is in no way a made-up scenario this girl who plays middie was 2nd team all-conference last year in a conference full of high-level D1 middie commits. It happened, and it happens more than you probably think. Please show any of us where you saw a claim that it was a "Top private"? I for sure did not see someone claim it was at GC, SR, Visi, or SSASA just that it happened at a local private.

The original post mentioned those schools. What it comes down to is there is no proof and the original story keeps changing.

The OPs' list also mentioned several other WCAC schools besides GC that most would probably not consider to be top programs but are still usually competitive and play at a high level.

"GC, SJC, BI, PVI, AHC, and O'Connell"

Playing for a school like Marshall, where they averaged 4.5 goals in all games and less than 2 goals a game in their losses, is hardly worth bringing up in any context whatsoever. Yes, I believe a good athlete could start for teams like this but not really validating any kind of point.

Curious how people feel about the coaches at some of these WCAC schools. Which one is better to play for?