Lacrosse Culture at St Albans?

[Anonymous]

STA lost to Bullis tonight 13-3.

[Anonymous]

Bottom of the IAC once again. Rory Hyland is nothing special.

[Anonymous]

Neither is Colin Heeter and he is listed as their head coach.

[Anonymous]

STOP IT. St Alban's played a competitive game. There is no substitute for talent, and Bullis just had more talent tonight than St Albans. Coaching had ZERO impact on the game. As a matter of fact St Albans was leading 2 - 1 at the end of the 1st quarter. The St Albans team played with class and played hard until the end.

[Anonymous]

I’ll give it to saint Albans, they have a talented faceoff specialist and goalie, and a few blue chip defenders. That first quarter gave Bullis fans a scare and revealed a few bright spots for the opponent. But for the rest of the game the attack failed to attack and the mids seemed to rely on one guy, presumably their stud, who was getting hounded, double teamed and shutout all night. What struck me about the opponent was the forced passes, poor passes, missed catches, dropped balls, inability to pick up GBs, difficulty they had just moving the ball around and some poor lacrosse IQ in more than a few players. Basic fundamentals. Prior posters are unfairly maligning the coaches for their coaching in the games. But I think it’s an open question about whether the deficiencies can be addressed in practices or whether this is a case of you have to play the cards you’re dealt and these coaches have just been dealt a poor hand at least by IAC standards. I do ageee that the team tried hard to the end and seemed graceful even in the jaws of an embarrassing defeat.

[Anonymous]

Bullis was just the better team, period.

The game didn’t have much to do with coaching.

Bullis was deeper, bigger, more athletic and their players are more skilled.

I’m glad STA made it a fight for the first quarter but the final result should come as no surprise to any loyal Bulldog fan.

STA is not going to recruit at the level of which the other IAC schools do for lacrosse, and certainly not at the level at which Bullis operates at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bullis was just the better team, period.

The game didn’t have much to do with coaching.

Bullis was deeper, bigger, more athletic and their players are more skilled.

I’m glad STA made it a fight for the first quarter but the final result should come as no surprise to any loyal Bulldog fan.

STA is not going to recruit at the level of which the other IAC schools do for lacrosse, and certainly not at the level at which Bullis operates at.

Yes, STA's gap in talent is even more pronounced given they lost by 10 even though they won most of the face-offs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom of the IAC once again. Rory Hyland is nothing special.

You all take the fun out of these sports. STA has some very good players. Maybe they won’t win the IAC but no team should be beat up for trying and giving it their best. Way to encourage kids to try their best and be their best. Nasty adults.

[Anonymous]

They may have lost, yet this school continues to have a page dedicated to it that is now 13 pages long. Why do you think that is? STA students (and dads) don't seem to define themselves by the sport(s) they play.

[Anonymous]

Where is fogo playing college?

[Anonymous]

Brown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They may have lost, yet this school continues to have a page dedicated to it that is now 13 pages long. Why do you think that is? STA students (and dads) don't seem to define themselves by the sport(s) they play.

Many STA dads played lacrosse at their prep schools and quite a few played at the college level. So there's that reliving of the glory days part. There is also the lacrosse mystique - tied to NE elitism, the Wall Street Network, blah, blah.... Lots of STA Board members and alums are fixated on bringing up the sport.

Also lots of posts on this thread are from obvious STA haters, enjoying taking pot shots at the program fueled by jealousy of everything else STA offers.

[Anonymous]

Good for fogo. That is a great place to be a student-athlete. And a new lacrosse stadium under construction will be nice too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They may have lost, yet this school continues to have a page dedicated to it that is now 13 pages long. Why do you think that is? STA students (and dads) don't seem to define themselves by the sport(s) they play.

Many STA dads played lacrosse at their prep schools and quite a few played at the college level. So there's that reliving of the glory days part. There is also the lacrosse mystique - tied to NE elitism, the Wall Street Network, blah, blah.... Lots of STA Board members and alums are fixated on bringing up the sport.

Also lots of posts on this thread are from obvious STA haters, enjoying taking pot shots at the program fueled by jealousy of everything else STA offers.

The sport is so much bigger now, and has a lot of great athletes playing these days. 30 years ago, it was a sport with huge barriers to entry and in the DMV played only by prep schools. Many STA dads who played in prep school then and even in college could not make today's Bullis roster. Their glory days were a function of a severely limited player pool! 30 years from now, crew and squash will be just like lacrosse is today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They may have lost, yet this school continues to have a page dedicated to it that is now 13 pages long. Why do you think that is? STA students (and dads) don't seem to define themselves by the sport(s) they play.

Many STA dads played lacrosse at their prep schools and quite a few played at the college level. So there's that reliving of the glory days part. There is also the lacrosse mystique - tied to NE elitism, the Wall Street Network, blah, blah.... Lots of STA Board members and alums are fixated on bringing up the sport.

Also lots of posts on this thread are from obvious STA haters, enjoying taking pot shots at the program fueled by jealousy of everything else STA offers.

The sport is so much bigger now, and has a lot of great athletes playing these days. 30 years ago, it was a sport with huge barriers to entry and in the DMV played only by prep schools. Many STA dads who played in prep school then and even in college could not make today's Bullis roster. Their glory days were a function of a severely limited player pool! 30 years from now, crew and squash will be just like lacrosse is today.

In 1986 my public HS club team defeated St. Albans. Lacrosse was alive and well 30 years ago and I do not recall St. Albans being the team to beat. Landon was the local powerhouse. Back then there were lots of public school kids playing and many went on to great college careers. The WALL washington area lacrosse league had a lot of teams with public and private school kids.