Lacrosse Culture at St Albans?

[Anonymous]

Agree.

We never considered any of the Cathedral schools due to the arrogance displayed by some of the current parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree.

We never considered any of the Cathedral schools due to the arrogance displayed by some of the current parents.

There are lots of STA and NCS families who have or had a child or children at another area private schools. Many of them love the other schools as much or more as they love STA or NCS. These parents often find that they can do better for their child at a different school. And, there are plenty of arrogant parents wherever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree.

We never considered any of the Cathedral schools due to the arrogance displayed by some of the current parents.

There are lots of STA and NCS families who have or had a child or children at another area private schools. Many of them love the other schools as much or more as they love STA or NCS. These parents often find that they can do better for their child at a different school. And, there are plenty of arrogant parents wherever.

Oh sadly, so true. As a parent with kids at Cathedral and non-Cathedral schools, I can attest to the accuracy of this statement.

[Anonymous]

The Yale goalie and STA grad who will be playing in his second straight national championship game today did a promo for ESPN. What he chose to say “choose the hard right, over the easy wrong” is a mantra woven into the character of the boys from the very first day in C Form (4th grade). Excellent choice Super-Starr goalie. Great work STA. The Product continues unabated.

[Anonymous]

The goalie is good and happy for him. But anybody who says "The product continues unabated" should have his/her face punched. What arrogance.

[Anonymous]

I’m pretty sure “product” is how St. Albans alums, including Al Gore, refer to what comes out of the STA factory at the end of the process. Leave it to the peanut gallery to weigh in on whether a 500k education is worth the investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The goalie is good and happy for him. But anybody who says "The product continues unabated" should have his/her face punched. What arrogance.

I have been surprised that there is not another goalie at Yale who can earn some time between the pipes. That goalie ranked #62 out of 69 NCAA goalies in save percentage. He made 9 saves on 22 shots in the championship game. Virginia's goalie made 13 saves on 21 shots. It was a 4 point win for Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Diz the thang. Ya don’t have to have the best stats in a game that ends in college to be da dude. St. Albans + lax + Yale + Lax = BFD for life.

[Anonymous]

St. Albans graduated the best goalie it’ll ever have 2 years ago. It graduated the best FOGO it’ll ever have this year. The days of an above 500 season with an upset or two thrown in are now in the rear view mirror. Time for the team to leave the IAC and make room for a school that can handle the IAC juggernaut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. Albans graduated the best goalie it’ll ever have 2 years ago. It graduated the best FOGO it’ll ever have this year. The days of an above 500 season with an upset or two thrown in are now in the rear view mirror. Time for the team to leave the IAC and make room for a school that can handle the IAC juggernaut

ST Albans doesn't need to leave the IAC so that another team can join. It's only a six team league.

And it's unlikely that the school will devote the kind of attention to the sport that Landon always has, GP has for decades and that Bullis and SSSA have recently. Getting very good in lacrosse would likely require trade-offs in Admissions, Financial Aid, Program expenditures (Number and compensation of Assistants, etc.) and outreach. (Camps, "Recruiting", etc). This would bring them into direct competition for lacrosse players and very good athletes that also play lacrosse with Landon, Prep, Gonzaga, Bullis and even St. John's.

I think when the school weighs the effort it would take to compete at the higher level, finishing below .500 wouldn't look so bad.

The alternative is to do what Sidwell did and drop down a league.

If Bullis, Landon, Prep and SSSA keep ratcheting up the effort in lacrosse and football, that might happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. Albans graduated the best goalie it’ll ever have 2 years ago. It graduated the best FOGO it’ll ever have this year. The days of an above 500 season with an upset or two thrown in are now in the rear view mirror. Time for the team to leave the IAC and make room for a school that can handle the IAC juggernaut

ST Albans doesn't need to leave the IAC so that another team can join. It's only a six team league.

And it's unlikely that the school will devote the kind of attention to the sport that Landon always has, GP has for decades and that Bullis and SSSA have recently. Getting very good in lacrosse would likely require trade-offs in Admissions, Financial Aid, Program expenditures (Number and compensation of Assistants, etc.) and outreach. (Camps, "Recruiting", etc). This would bring them into direct competition for lacrosse players and very good athletes that also play lacrosse with Landon, Prep, Gonzaga, Bullis and even St. John's.

I think when the school weighs the effort it would take to compete at the higher level, finishing below .500 wouldn't look so bad.

The alternative is to do what Sidwell did and drop down a league.

If Bullis, Landon, Prep and SSSA keep ratcheting up the effort in lacrosse and football, that might happen.

If STA is competing with any of those schools for student athletes, it is most likely competing against Landon, Gonzaga and Prep out of that list. Bullis, SSSA and St. Johns are steps too far below academically to have much serious overlap.

I just wonder what high school football looks like at these schools in 10 years. Maybe Gonzaga, St. Johns and Bullis still have decent programs due to their numbers (Gonzaga) or the school culture and willingness to aggressively find players (Bullis and St. Johns), but I think the others will have trouble fielding teams.

[Anonymous]

There will soon come a time when a enough schools drop football and lacrosse becomes a fall high school sport for them.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately I think lacrosse will become so competitive that schools like St Albans won’t be able to keep up. It’s a shame really.

[Anonymous]

St. Albans chooses not to be competitive lacrosse.

Lacrosse is not football people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA will not relax its admissions standards for anyone. That is laudable. So they have to rely on kids who can play lacrosse, can afford the price and are good students, all knowing that most years they are not able to be competitive with the rest of the IAC. That means a much smaller talent pool than the rest of the league.

Is this true?!?!? This is the school I need for my son.