Lacrosse Culture at St Albans?

[Anonymous]

Brown commit from STA is a better situation in terms of academics AND athletics than any of the Prep commits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tuition at St Albans is not 45K. It's closer to 60K.

It might be like 47K next year but it definitely is not closer to 60K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuition at St Albans is not 45K. It's closer to 60K.

It might be like 47K next year but it definitely is not closer to 60K.

47 day students
60 for boarding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tuition at St Albans is not 45K. It's closer to 60K.

It might be like 47K next year but it definitely is not closer to 60K.

47 day students
60 for boarding

Perhaps, but that’s like 5% of the total students at STA (no idea the % of students in upper school).

And I’m guessing very few boarders play lacrosse.

STA is probably more expensive than any other local private school but I guess value is in the eye of the beholder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown commit from STA is a better situation in terms of academics AND athletics than any of the Prep commits.

Ok Brown commit Dad! Thanks for your input!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:List of St Albans seniors playing lax in college.

One to Brown
one to Washington and Lee

Woohoo!!

Most students don’t go to STA to pursue a career in lacrosse if you haven’t figured that out yet. They’re a little more focused on their academics and enjoying the sport and being on a team. It’s a little shocking the mentality on here that doesn’t get that for many people high school sports are just that – high school sports and they’re fine to pursue other interest once they get to college.

Most lacrosse players are STA would LOVE to be recruited to play in college. Just ask them. It’s shocking to me that parents justify their kids sucking at lax and paying 45k for them to then pay 60k for mediocre liberal arts colleges. Kids who are serious lacrosse players (or football players or basketball players) don’t go to STA. They would rather have less academic stress, pay less tuition, and be on decent sports teams, all the while knowing they willend up at the same colleges as their STA peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:List of St Albans seniors playing lax in college.

One to Brown
one to Washington and Lee

Woohoo!!

Most students don’t go to STA to pursue a career in lacrosse if you haven’t figured that out yet. They’re a little more focused on their academics and enjoying the sport and being on a team. It’s a little shocking the mentality on here that doesn’t get that for many people high school sports are just that – high school sports and they’re fine to pursue other interest once they get to college.

Most lacrosse players are STA would LOVE to be recruited to play in college. Just ask them. It’s shocking to me that parents justify their kids sucking at lax and paying 45k for them to then pay 60k for mediocre liberal arts colleges. Kids who are serious lacrosse players (or football players or basketball players) don’t go to STA. They would rather have less academic stress, pay less tuition, and be on decent sports teams, all the while knowing they willend up at the same colleges as their STA peers.

*same colleges or better! See list from Prep lax! You won’t find similar college acceptances among the seniors on the lax team at STA. (Except for the Brown kid)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:List of St Albans seniors playing lax in college.

One to Brown
one to Washington and Lee

Woohoo!!

Most students don’t go to STA to pursue a career in lacrosse if you haven’t figured that out yet. They’re a little more focused on their academics and enjoying the sport and being on a team. It’s a little shocking the mentality on here that doesn’t get that for many people high school sports are just that – high school sports and they’re fine to pursue other interest once they get to college.

Most lacrosse players are STA would LOVE to be recruited to play in college. Just ask them. It’s shocking to me that parents justify their kids sucking at lax and paying 45k for them to then pay 60k for mediocre liberal arts colleges. Kids who are serious lacrosse players (or football players or basketball players) don’t go to STA. They would rather have less academic stress, pay less tuition, and be on decent sports teams, all the while knowing they willend up at the same colleges as their STA peers.

Of course they would love to win every game. Who wouldn’t want to win every game? There are some very talented players on the STA team but in five years they will not be thinking about how their high school games at lacrosse went. They will have healthy relationships with their high school experiences and be moving on with with their lives. I suggest some of the adult posters on here do the same. STA, along with Sidwell and NCS, are in a league of their own academically and they are the only schools that are nationally known in this area as being academically prestigious schools. You can compare lists all day long but it won’t change the reputation that these schools have and the confidence and pride that comes with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:List of St Albans seniors playing lax in college.

One to Brown
one to Washington and Lee

Woohoo!!

Most students don’t go to STA to pursue a career in lacrosse if you haven’t figured that out yet. They’re a little more focused on their academics and enjoying the sport and being on a team. It’s a little shocking the mentality on here that doesn’t get that for many people high school sports are just that – high school sports and they’re fine to pursue other interest once they get to college.

Most lacrosse players are STA would LOVE to be recruited to play in college. Just ask them. It’s shocking to me that parents justify their kids sucking at lax and paying 45k for them to then pay 60k for mediocre liberal arts colleges. Kids who are serious lacrosse players (or football players or basketball players) don’t go to STA. They would rather have less academic stress, pay less tuition, and be on decent sports teams, all the while knowing they willend up at the same colleges as their STA peers.

Of course they would love to win every game. Who wouldn’t want to win every game? There are some very talented players on the STA team but in five years they will not be thinking about how their high school games at lacrosse went. They will have healthy relationships with their high school experiences and be moving on with with their lives. I suggest some of the adult posters on here do the same. STA, along with Sidwell and NCS, are in a league of their own academically and they are the only schools that are nationally known in this area as being academically prestigious schools. You can compare lists all day long but it won’t change the reputation that these schools have and the confidence and pride that comes with that.

UMMM.. TJ??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Using the number of "Commits" as a guage of the strength of the various IAC teams.

It's probably not a bad overall measure, but it's got a lot of flaws. The major problem is that recruiting is a very inexact science that contains a huge number of misses on the potential of kids.

Since the DIII schools don't give scholarships and even the DI's have only 15 and a fraction to give, recruiting and even admission doesn't mean all that much. If someone gets a basketball full-free ride it means something different.

When I look at the list of Prep "commits" above, I don't think it provides as much information as some think it does.

All of these Commit Lists:

1. Include lots of kids that really aren't going to see the field in games, except maybe at "garbage time" in games. College squads have 35 guys. Not everyone plays. Some of this is due to mis-judgements by the recruiters as to how good (fast, skilled, tough) the kid is. Some of it is the college coaches saying, "We don't really know who is going to pan out, so lets bring in the max. number of kids we can and see who can play and who wants to play when they get here".

2. Include kids that will quit the college squad pretty quickly once they see how tough the competitions is, what the demands of the program are and how relatively unimportant the sport is on many college campuses.

3. Includes schools that really don't recruit that hard and where the kid is academically good enough so that the coach doesn't have to use one of his admission "Chits" to get him in.

. This is a stupid post. We don’t need to use the list of commits to gauge the strength of the IAC program. The win loss record speaks for itself. St. Albans parents says they don’t mind being crappy athletes on crappy teams because they are so academically strong. I call BS. I think the kids do care. And I think the parents should be mad if they pay 45k just so their kid can go to someplace like Dickenson and not play sports. What a waste. And I can assure you that the Prep boys going on to play college lax are no dummies. And they will contribute to their teams. You don’t know anything about college lax recruiting if you think the college coach gave them the spot for no reason. Notre Dame, UNC, Villanova, Navy, Dartmouth? Are you kidding? Either they are amazing lax players or they are very good lax players who bring the academic average of the team up. That’s how it works. So they can’t, as you suggest, be dumb, bad lacrosse players. That’s NOT how it works.

These kids know exactly what the demands are for their college sport. They have many peers, older brothers, cousins, family friends, who play at that level. You just don’t know any one who plays at that level because you are probably an STa parent who never played anything but tennis and has to justify why you send your kid to that school.

This thread is nauseating. Crappy athletes on crappy teams? Seriously? Grow up. "And I think the parents should be mad if they pay 45k just so their kid can go to someplace like Dickenson". That's none of your f*cking business. What a complete *sswipe.

[Anonymous]

STA looses to SSSA 15-7 and that's a wrap on the season.

[Anonymous]

I love the logic from the STA boosters in this thread: "STA lax players are totally fine losing every IAC game because their classes are harder!"

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the logic from the STA boosters in this thread: "STA lax players are totally fine losing every IAC game because their classes are harder!"

LOL

And it's the coaches fault.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers' I'm told.

STA has a choice, they can upgrade the size, speed and athleticism of the players (like the rest of the IAC) or they can reliably finish in the basement. Coaches can only do so much.

It's perfectly reasonable for them to decline to chase the other IAC squads. Sort of like Columbia in Ivy League football or what Northwestern did for decades in the Big Ten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the logic from the STA boosters in this thread: "STA lax players are totally fine losing every IAC game because their classes are harder!"

LOL

The interpretation is your's, PP. What the posters really seem to be saying is that lacrosse is just a game to those STA kids and their families, and not important in the grander scheme of life. Of course STA players aren't okay with losing games (no-one is) but they are more than okay with going to a top academic institution with an extraordinarily rigorous high school curriculum that prepares them to easily handle college, regardless of where they attend, and with a long history, prestige, and connections world-wide that they become a part of and will serve them throughout their life.

[Anonymous]

It's only a game when they're losing. When they win then it's the most important thing and sign of their superiority.

Awful people.