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Anonymous
| Doubtful if kids will compete at all this school year. Kids aren’t even back in school. No end in sight. Tighten your seatbelts for what is expected to be a sad story for all the kids in this area. While other states are competing the dc metro area is not like any other area in our country. If you wanted to play probably should move to Florida, Or Texas. |
Anonymous
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Many of the privates are back in school at least in a hybrid fashion. I'm not sure we can write off the season yet and it will all probably depend on vaccine progress. I think the schools are looking for a way forward so if there is a glimmer of hope I think many of them will go for it. The public schools are too large and can't manage the distancing and related issues as easily as privates so I think they will have a hard time coming back.
I do think this opens an opportunity for clubs in the area to do things in the Spring where they normally wouldn't. I am sure there are lacrosse tournament owners that are going to try to pounce on the opportunity. |
Anonymous
Agree on both. Prep and Gonzaga have the most talent. However having talent doesn’t mean they are the best teams. |
Anonymous
This seems like I am trolling a bit but here goes. If your son is in the same class or just older/younger than the owner of MadLax's children, those Landon teams will be very good. In addition to the normal club talent attending Landon, he will make sure to do a hard press for his club kids to attend. In the current years of the high school, Landon will have to see how the retirement of their old coach affects the sport. The new coach is well liked but didn't have a full season to get going last year. Landon also has a relatively new Headmaster and it's not yet known how he wants to steer the athletic department with the amount of financial aid they've been giving in the past. |
Anonymous
STA upper school is not back in school yet, but the others are. Prep, Landon, Episcopal, and Bullis are all back in hybrid formats and have been for weeks. Not sure about SSSA and STA is finally starting hybrid next week. Not sure about IAC competition this school year, but most schools are back and starting after school practices in small groups. |
Anonymous
Not sure how Prep will do this spring, if they even have a season, but their current varsity has 10 All-American and Nike National players on the roster. And that's just the cream of the crop. They have a ton of great club lacrosse players in addition to those 10 who are also either already committed to colleges or being looked at. You can be sure they will dominate the IAC in 2022 and 2023. Their 2023s are some of the best in the area and they have a very deep bench in all positions with great talent. The college commits out of the 2023 class will be impressive and so will their domination of the IAC as long as they are coached well. |
Anonymous
SSSA upper schoolers currently are attending school in person two days a week. For the IAC, the plan is to start sports in late December or early January. There will be three 7 week seasons. First will be winter sports, then fall sports, then spring sports. So, if sports are able to proceed, the best we can hope for is a short lacrosse season in April/May. Not sure if the plan includes any playoffs. |
Anonymous
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Prep is the worst coached team in the IAC.
Doesn’t matter how many 17 year old sophomores they have in their current 2023 or 19 year old seniors in their 2021 class. We heard the same thing from Prep dads about their 2019 class and this was finally the “year” only to lose in the IAC semi-finals to Saint Stephens. |
Anonymous
So STA is the last school to start in person classes, that's embarrassing. What could possibly take so long for them to figure out? 7 months not long enough? 50K in tuition not provide enough resources? |
Anonymous
| The issue is that if projections are correct our kids won’t be back in school, episcopal is now changing the return of students home two weeks before Thanksgiving. Brace yourself folks for no sports all year. |
Anonymous
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I am getting nervous if there will even be Spring sports at all this Spring.
I had previously heard the IAC was going to have an abbreviated Spring season for the month of May - early June. |
Anonymous
This is the official IAC statement from July: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the member schools of the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) have met extensively to consider options for athletic activities in the 2020-2021 school year. As part of this process, we consulted with the Independent School League (ISL) and Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC), with whom some of our schools have families in common. The three leagues share the goals of supporting our student-athletes and ensuring a safe return to athletics. Our co-ed member schools also seek to ensure equity between the male and female student athletes at their schools. With our first priority being the health and safety of our student-athletes, coaches, athletic support staff, and community members, the IAC has independently decided to postpone league-sanctioned athletic competition for fall 2020. This delay will provide the flexibility necessary for schools to focus first on a safe return to school as well as a longer window to implement health guidelines and reacclimate all students to physical activity. In place of traditional interscholastic competition during the fall, we will pursue creative opportunities for safe team practices and training, and informal competition between member schools when feasible. We are committed to supporting team-based athletics, which are essential to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of our students. Our current plan is to resume league competition no earlier than January 2021 and to provide an interscholastic athletics experience for students in all sports. Were this to be possible, we would develop plans for three abbreviated seasons during the remainder of the school year, beginning with traditional winter sports, to be followed by fall sports and then spring sports. We understand that the situation may change significantly during the course of the school year, and we will remain flexible and adjust our plans as necessary. As we develop specific details regarding scheduling of competition and other policies for safely resuming athletics, the IAC and each member school will closely examine the guidelines and best practices provided by public health authorities, state and local governments, and national and state sport organizations. |
Anonymous
| There will be plenty of sports and lacrosse games. They just won't be official school teams. The clubs and tournaments will fill the void. |
Anonymous
| Agree no sports in schools. Sadly these kids won’t be back in school five days a week anytime soon if your son or daughter goes to school in DC area. |
Anonymous
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Too early to say there will be no HS spring sports
And I’m not a big Trump guy either. |