St. Albans lax

[Anonymous]

So does every other school around here. It's not that big a deal to have a few recruits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So does every other school around here. It's not that big a deal to have a few recruits.

I think you missing or choosing to miss the point. STA has some very good players but aren't as deep as the other teams - and that's ok they are student-athletes that excel in academics. Other schools also have very bright kids as well but not as many on the far end - e.g. STA's SAT avg is 2100. The SAT isnt the definitive barometer of intelligence, academic potential or overall success but just one metric used for example. STA is playing sound lacrosse which is great to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does every other school around here. It's not that big a deal to have a few recruits.

I think you missing or choosing to miss the point. STA has some very good players but aren't as deep as the other teams - and that's ok they are student-athletes that excel in academics. Other schools also have very bright kids as well but not as many on the far end - e.g. STA's SAT avg is 2100. The SAT isnt the definitive barometer of intelligence, academic potential or overall success but just one metric used for example. STA is playing sound lacrosse which is great to see.

2100 on a 1600 scale! They are smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So does every other school around here. It's not that big a deal to have a few recruits.

I think you missing or choosing to miss the point. STA has some very good players but aren't as deep as the other teams - and that's ok they are student-athletes that excel in academics. Other schools also have very bright kids as well but not as many on the far end - e.g. STA's SAT avg is 2100. The SAT isnt the definitive barometer of intelligence, academic potential or overall success but just one metric used for example. STA is playing sound lacrosse which is great to see.

2100 on a 1600 scale! They are smart.

Maybe the number is 1410, thanks for fact checking!

https://www.niche.com/k12/st-albans-school-washington-dc/academics/

https://www.businessinsider.com/st-albans-school-is-the-smartest-boarding-school-in-america-2015-2#:~:text=That%27s%20because%20students%20at%20St.%20Albans%20get%20an,score%20of%20any%20boarding%20school%20in%20the%20country.

[Anonymous]

Here comes the STA elitist attitude again. 🙄 My boy is smarter than yours. 🙄 News flash, the majority of athletes in the IAC are "student-athletes that excel in academics". STA families love to think their sons are the smartest. I know plenty of DMV students who turned down an offer from STA because they preferred another school. Tons of IAC athletes are also super bright and could easily handle the rigors of STA. Other IAC schools are also rigorous. You are delusional thinking STA is somehow special. There are plenty of Beauvoir grads and other admits who are average or just slightly above average students at STA. Many who even may be denied admission if they had to apply again. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here comes the STA elitist attitude again. 🙄 My boy is smarter than yours. 🙄 News flash, the majority of athletes in the IAC are "student-athletes that excel in academics". STA families love to think their sons are the smartest. I know plenty of DMV students who turned down an offer from STA because they preferred another school. Tons of IAC athletes are also super bright and could easily handle the rigors of STA. Other IAC schools are also rigorous. You are delusional thinking STA is somehow special. There are plenty of Beauvoir grads and other admits who are average or just slightly above average students at STA. Many who even may be denied admission if they had to apply again. Get over yourself.

There is a reason people overpay at younger ages to guarantee HS spots. That's fine, it's their money. Funny thing is the really smart kids are fine no matter what. My kids are in private but my really smart kid would be fine academically at a public IB program, which are opportunities we are lucky to have around here. STA sucks at sports but have rich kids that get recruited. Their lax team has plenty of recruits and Robinson/Riverside/Churchill would wipe the floor with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then why can’t they perform on the field? If they have so much talent why aren’t they even competitive?

They don’t have depth. They have maybe 3-4 standouts per year, but not enough decent players to put forth a decent starting lineup and especially up against IAC nationally ranked teams this is a recipe for a losing season. So they try to convert a lot of great athletes into lacrosse players. For example there are kids heading to Dartmouth and Bowdoin as football recruits who are phenemonal athletes but haven’t been playing lacrosse for most of their lives so lack stick skills and lacrosse IQ. Luckily the HC has been using his connection to Next Level and the team in the last 2 years is increasingly stocked with kids who’ve played lacrosse since they were in elementary school. Now the challenge is to convince a kid who would otherwise go to Landon or Prep why they should take a chance by playing for STA instead. If you are a blue chip recruit, it just doesn’t make sense, at least as of this writing.

[Anonymous]

Not affiliated with the STA program.

STA is gradually heading in the right direction however its hard to truly assess as they play in a very very good league. If Heeter can get more kids to come out, and the example provided above in convincing some of the D3 football player and Ivy league football commit to come out and give the sport a try, I view that as a very positive step. The Next Level to STA pipeline is starting to shape up as the middle school program appears to be getting stronger - again this is a good thing.

I think STA would be in the upper half of the WCAC and might be able to complete with PVI and Dematha this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not affiliated with the STA program.

STA is gradually heading in the right direction however its hard to truly assess as they play in a very very good league. If Heeter can get more kids to come out, and the example provided above in convincing some of the D3 football player and Ivy league football commit to come out and give the sport a try, I view that as a very positive step. The Next Level to STA pipeline is starting to shape up as the middle school program appears to be getting stronger - again this is a good thing.

I think STA would be in the upper half of the WCAC and might be able to complete with PVI and Dematha this year.

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not affiliated with the STA program.

STA is gradually heading in the right direction however its hard to truly assess as they play in a very very good league. If Heeter can get more kids to come out, and the example provided above in convincing some of the D3 football player and Ivy league football commit to come out and give the sport a try, I view that as a very positive step. The Next Level to STA pipeline is starting to shape up as the middle school program appears to be getting stronger - again this is a good thing.

I think STA would be in the upper half of the WCAC and might be able to complete with PVI and Dematha this year.

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not affiliated with the STA program.

STA is gradually heading in the right direction however its hard to truly assess as they play in a very very good league. If Heeter can get more kids to come out, and the example provided above in convincing some of the D3 football player and Ivy league football commit to come out and give the sport a try, I view that as a very positive step. The Next Level to STA pipeline is starting to shape up as the middle school program appears to be getting stronger - again this is a good thing.

I think STA would be in the upper half of the WCAC and might be able to complete with PVI and Dematha this year.

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

STA's problem is that they have a reputation of being an academic grind. It doesn't mean the admissions' standards are much tougher, it just means when you get there it's an academic slog. The reputation is based on fact. We've known talented lacrosse players who ended up getting recruited who did not want to put up with the grade deflation BS at STA and transferred to schools with great academics, just without the sado-masochistic focus on "rigor".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not affiliated with the STA program.

STA is gradually heading in the right direction however its hard to truly assess as they play in a very very good league. If Heeter can get more kids to come out, and the example provided above in convincing some of the D3 football player and Ivy league football commit to come out and give the sport a try, I view that as a very positive step. The Next Level to STA pipeline is starting to shape up as the middle school program appears to be getting stronger - again this is a good thing.

I think STA would be in the upper half of the WCAC and might be able to complete with PVI and Dematha this year.

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

How long has STA coach been there? Isn’t it very difficult to get into STA? They don’t let just anyone in - even if they are a great lax player. That seems to be a bigger problem for STA. There are too many alternatives to STA that weren’t available even 5 years ago

STA's problem is that they have a reputation of being an academic grind. It doesn't mean the admissions' standards are much tougher, it just means when you get there it's an academic slog. The reputation is based on fact. We've known talented lacrosse players who ended up getting recruited who did not want to put up with the grade deflation BS at STA and transferred to schools with great academics, just without the sado-masochistic focus on "rigor".

If that’s the case, STA has no chance of climbing as a lax program - too many other top lax programs with less rigorous academic standards that still get lax players into schools that non lax playing STA families would kill to get into

[Anonymous]

Yes that's correct, you should NOT go to STA if the goal is to get higher grades in an easier manner to then use lax to get in to a better school than you would otherwise be academically suited for. Most kids are choosing STA for the academic reputation (which carries weight in the college admissions process on its own) and then happy to see they have a robust (albeit not top) athletics program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes that's correct, you should NOT go to STA if the goal is to get higher grades in an easier manner to then use lax to get in to a better school than you would otherwise be academically suited for. Most kids are choosing STA for the academic reputation (which carries weight in the college admissions process on its own) and then happy to see they have a robust (albeit not top) athletics program.

Have you not read the earlier posts? Some - probably STA families - are claiming STA is about to challenge for league primacy in lacrosse, but others say that outcome is very unlikely, if not impossible, given STA academic rigor and lack of institutional interest in having an elite athletic program. Seems obvious that STA lax will be mediocre at best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes that's correct, you should NOT go to STA if the goal is to get higher grades in an easier manner to then use lax to get in to a better school than you would otherwise be academically suited for. Most kids are choosing STA for the academic reputation (which carries weight in the college admissions process on its own) and then happy to see they have a robust (albeit not top) athletics program.

Have you not read the earlier posts? Some - probably STA families - are claiming STA is about to challenge for league primacy in lacrosse, but others say that outcome is very unlikely, if not impossible, given STA academic rigor and lack of institutional interest in having an elite athletic program. Seems obvious that STA lax will be mediocre at best.

You just restated what PP said.