How hard to learn/play LAX in HS?

[Anonymous]

Many pick up lacrosse in high school. It is fairly common.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

There probably has not ever been a GP player who started in 9th grade and later made any D1 lacrosse roster.

Absolutely, totally incorrect. I can probably name 15. Let’s start with All American Scott Doyle at Georgetown. (See above)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

Google “Scott Doyle”

Then post an apology for being wrong.

Does honorable mention count? He seems like a major douche.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

There probably has not ever been a GP player who started in 9th grade and later made any D1 lacrosse roster.

Absolutely, totally incorrect. I can probably name 15. Let’s start with All American Scott Doyle at Georgetown. (See above)

Agree not true at all. Some of the best lax players picked it up in 9th and I know several from Prep. Went on to play in college. Many sports translate well with the same skills. Parents of unathletic kids who have been pushing their kids to play lax since kindergarten don’t want you to know this.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

Google “Scott Doyle”

Then post an apology for being wrong.

Does honorable mention count? He seems like a major douche.

Not man enough to admit you were wrong? No surprise there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

There probably has not ever been a GP player who started in 9th grade and later made any D1 lacrosse roster.

Absolutely, totally incorrect. I can probably name 15. Let’s start with All American Scott Doyle at Georgetown. (See above)

Agree not true at all. Some of the best lax players picked it up in 9th and I know several from Prep. Went on to play in college. Many sports translate well with the same skills. Parents of unathletic kids who have been pushing their kids to play lax since kindergarten don’t want you to know this.

Apparently some started paying attention to lax ten minutes ago, and now they are experts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If he is athletic he will surpass the unathletic kids who have been in travel lax since they were 10.

This is probably true.

This actually doesn’t mean much. Lacrosse has a high level of coordination in layers. Hand eye on par with baseball. Hand eye in conjunction with physical coordination on the level of hockey, except multiple planes vs mostly on ice passes. Good athletes in other sports quit lacrosse at a high rate in new markets because they’re not used to the learning curve of and patience required for competent stick work. It’s like the dedication required of high end skateboarders.

You could be an elite running back or hockey center or soccer striker and not get over the stick work hump in time. Defenders without stick skills are next to useless in a good conference. Basketball would be the best foundation. Other elements of athleticism come after that, but compound it. A skill freak who’s not fast or super agile could still be a crease attacker. Otherwise your ceiling is ssdm, limited minutes. Even a fogo could be less conventionally athletic but be a skill freak.

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Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

Scott Doyle was a 2001 Honorable Mention AA. Not an AA.



There probably has not ever been a GP player who started in 9th grade and later made any D1 lacrosse roster.

Absolutely, totally incorrect. I can probably name 15. Let’s start with All American Scott Doyle at Georgetown. (See above)

Agree not true at all. Some of the best lax players picked it up in 9th and I know several from Prep. Went on to play in college. Many sports translate well with the same skills. Parents of unathletic kids who have been pushing their kids to play lax since kindergarten don’t want you to know this.

Apparently some started paying attention to lax ten minutes ago, and now they are experts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse. Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year. By the end of Junior season he was an impact player. By senior season, Captain. This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.

There is no GP lacrosse player who has ever made all american at Georgetown.

There probably has not ever been a GP player who started in 9th grade and later made any D1 lacrosse roster.

Absolutely, totally incorrect. I can probably name 15. Let’s start with All American Scott Doyle at Georgetown. (See above)

Agree not true at all. Some of the best lax players picked it up in 9th and I know several from Prep. Went on to play in college. Many sports translate well with the same skills. Parents of unathletic kids who have been pushing their kids to play lax since kindergarten don’t want you to know this.

Apparently some started paying attention to lax ten minutes ago, and now they are experts.

Scott Doyle was a 2001 Honorable Mention AA, not an All American.
https://guhoyas.com/sports/2022/7/19/all-americans.aspx

[Anonymous]

That was also over two decades ago. 20 years before that, players could and did start playing in college. Hard to compare that era. Not sure why this thread was dug up. Yes a player can start playing in HS however it is very rare that a top all met type will pick up the game freshman year. Any recent examples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was also over two decades ago. 20 years before that, players could and did start playing in college. Hard to compare that era. Not sure why this thread was dug up. Yes a player can start playing in HS however it is very rare that a top all met type will pick up the game freshman year. Any recent examples?

That was the point of the post. There are no recent examples and there have been no GP AA at GU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he is athletic he will surpass the unathletic kids who have been in travel lax since they were 10.

Of course!

There is no substitute for speed, strength, agility and superior hand-eye coordination.

If this was better understood it would decimate the youth lacrosse club industry which depends on slightly delusional parents.

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Anonymous wrote:If he is athletic he will surpass the unathletic kids who have been in travel lax since they were 10.

Very true. Northwestern’s WLAX coach has in the past recruited pure athletes from other sports and figured she can teach them the lax part. Maybe not the case now that they are perennial national contender, but plenty of truth to it

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Anonymous wrote:DS has been elite athlete in another sport for several years, but burned out and is now super interested in playing lacrosse for his high school team, JV level of course. How realistic is this? And are there clinics/clubs that work with HS/late comers to the sport in the DMV?

Very curious what this looked like. Year-round since age 8 or 9? Intense schedule that included long rides to practices and ambitious tournament schedules? Burnout is a real thing

[Anonymous]

I agree with the poster who mentioned basketball as the best sport to transition into lacrosse.Man-to-man defense, the ability to slide and cover someone else’s man and shift on D, lots of running and looking down the field to see who’s open, lots of quick anticipatory passes.