2023 Boys HS lacrosse outlook

[Anonymous]

My son is in a special circumstance. He was born on November 2nd 2002.

*2006 We had the option of starting pre-school, but decided to wait a year because he was a slow learner and his birthday being after Nov 1st cut-off.
*2007 Then when he went to pre-school , son turned five the third month of pre-school of November and went through the year without issue
2008 but when my son started Kindergarten he got in a car accident which caused some breakage and decided to hold him out the entire year for physical therapy.
*2009 He started kindergarten at six and then turned seven that November of kindergarten.
*2018-RECLASS- for prep-school who offered half-ride if he took 8th grade over again.
*2019 start at prep school at 16 and turns 17 third month of freshman year. Starting on Varsity
*2023 graduating at 20...

My wife's a little nervous that he will be starting Duke and the third month in he will be 21, and we did notice a lot of his classmates are into cocaine - but because the sports teams drug tests three times a season so that assures us he doesn't do anything.... There is no way he could of made it to Duke if he graduating in 2019. It did work out. Prob the only thing that was weird is when he got caught with his girlfriend in bed by the girls parents and they called the cops - he was 18 at the time and she was 14. Luckily he knew better than to admit it and she eventually had to let it go. He got accepted to Maryland It pays to hold your kids back. I can honestly say if he was graduating in 2019 he would of just been average..... Hold-back as much as you can afford is the way to go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is in a special circumstance. He was born on November 2nd 2002.

*2006 We had the option of starting pre-school, but decided to wait a year because he was a slow learner and his birthday being after Nov 1st cut-off.
*2007 Then when he went to pre-school , son turned five the third month of pre-school of November and went through the year without issue
2008 but when my son started Kindergarten he got in a car accident which caused some breakage and decided to hold him out the entire year for physical therapy.
*2009 He started kindergarten at six and then turned seven that November of kindergarten.
*2018-RECLASS- for prep-school who offered half-ride if he took 8th grade over again.
*2019 start at prep school at 16 and turns 17 third month of freshman year. Starting on Varsity
*2023 graduating at 20...

My wife's a little nervous that he will be starting Duke and the third month in he will be 21, and we did notice a lot of his classmates are into cocaine - but because the sports teams drug tests three times a season so that assures us he doesn't do anything.... There is no way he could of made it to Duke if he graduating in 2019. It did work out. Prob the only thing that was weird is when he got caught with his girlfriend in bed by the girls parents and they called the cops - he was 18 at the time and she was 14. Luckily he knew better than to admit it and she eventually had to let it go. He got accepted to Maryland It pays to hold your kids back. I can honestly say if he was graduating in 2019 he would of just been average..... Hold-back as much as you can afford is the way to go

Wow your son got accepted to Duke and Maryland at the age of 20. I can say I don't feel so badly about my son's reclass. More power to you. Wow. If helpful, my son did get accepted to Penn - got to love the reclass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My wife's a little nervous that he will be starting Duke and the third month in he will be 21, and we did notice a lot of his classmates are into cocaine - but because the sports teams drug tests three times a season so that assures us he doesn't do anything....

It literally leaves your system after 12-24 hrs. Great job sending an adult to high-school to get addicted to narcotics. Are you sure he doesn't sell it, which he is bending over girls 75% of his age? Wow what a parent....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
My wife's a little nervous that he will be starting Duke and the third month in he will be 21, and we did notice a lot of his classmates are into cocaine - but because the sports teams drug tests three times a season so that assures us he doesn't do anything....

It literally leaves your system after 12-24 hrs. Great job sending an adult to high-school to get addicted to narcotics. Are you sure he doesn't sell it, which he is bending over girls 75% of his age? Wow what a parent....

I bought my son condoms when he was 14 in 7th grade. He had a serious girlfriend then who was 12. He has always been fast in the head and slow in the brain... He can question mark dodge better than anyone in 2023 tho..... gotta love it. Going to Duke!!!!! Fuk yeah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think academics may factor in? Maybe the school has better academic programs? I don't see them as owing anything to anyone. That's just silly.

Academics not a factor. Who said anything about owing anything to anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Odd move. Leaving family, friends, and teammates senior year. Prediction: will regret this decision, maybe not now or in a year, but will regret it in the future. Life isn’t about lacrosse, it’s about the people and connections we have with them.

If it's not about lacrosse, it shouldn't affect anything, right? Friends will be friends, though they may compete on the field instead of being on the same squad. He's still the same person, etc, just going to a different school and playing on a different team. Hopefully, relationships are deeper than that.

Of course the move is about lacrosse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Odd move. Leaving family, friends, and teammates senior year. Prediction: will regret this decision, maybe not now or in a year, but will regret it in the future. Life isn’t about lacrosse, it’s about the people and connections we have with them.

If it's not about lacrosse, it shouldn't affect anything, right? Friends will be friends, though they may compete on the field instead of being on the same squad. He's still the same person, etc, just going to a different school and playing on a different team. Hopefully, relationships are deeper than that.

You are missing the point. PP never said anything about friendships changing or not being the same person. That's a ridiculous suggestion on your part. They just predicted he may regret leaving his senior year, not playing with his brother and friends who he has played with forever, not fighting for a final IAC championship, and not graduating from a school he has attended for three years of high school (vs 9 months). It's just a hunch and nothing more.

[Anonymous]

Rich entitled lacrosse parents…

When the going gets tough, let’s run and hide.

[Anonymous]

DMV lax showing they are superior again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DMV lax showing they are superior again.

I don’t follow? #1 ranked rising senior plays in MIAA.

Now #5 ranked rising senior joins MIAA.

Combined the DMV has zero.

Please explain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMV lax showing they are superior again.

I don’t follow? #1 ranked rising senior plays in MIAA.

Now #5 ranked rising senior joins MIAA.

Combined the DMV has zero.

Please explain

Prep has two five star attack. Landon has multiple five stars in the 2024 class. Albans has a five star. Bullis has multiple four and five stars. MIAA is wonderful, but to diminish the IAC is ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMV lax showing they are superior again.

I don’t follow? #1 ranked rising senior plays in MIAA.

Now #5 ranked rising senior joins MIAA.

Combined the DMV has zero.

Please explain

Be nice to MIAA fans. Their teams have been surpassed by a lot of squads around the country and they get really upset when you point out fact that MIAA has been in decline for some time now. As lacrosse grows in other places, MIAA will continue to struggle against teams with better athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMV lax showing they are superior again.

I don’t follow? #1 ranked rising senior plays in MIAA.

Now #5 ranked rising senior joins MIAA.

Combined the DMV has zero.

Please explain

Who ranked these guys? Aren’t both players supposed to be headed into their freshman years in college? Not impressed

[Anonymous]

I would argue if you take the top 4 teams from the IAC (Prep, Bullis, Landon, St Stephens), and the top 4 teams from the WCAC (GZ, SJC, PVI, DM) and formed a DC area lacrosse league, it would be a much better league than the MIAA "A" conference.

Obviously, this is a pipe dream as football runs king in the WCAC and dictates league structures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would argue if you take the top 4 teams from the IAC (Prep, Bullis, Landon, St Stephens), and the top 4 teams from the WCAC (GZ, SJC, PVI, DM) and formed a DC area lacrosse league, it would be a much better league than the MIAA "A" conference.

Obviously, this is a pipe dream as football runs king in the WCAC and dictates league structures.

Heights and STA dads would be salty