I wouldn't put a lot of stock in a B team goalie. |
| Why do you feel it’s necessary to disparage a young man like the one who transferred to Madison? Hes a pretty good goalie who has been working his back side off and is driven to get better and contribute in a positive manner. You all who come on here and disparage high school age young men are monsters. |
Low blow, totally uncalled for. |
^^ Goalie's mom |
You do realize this is prob a HS kid posting right? |
| Stop picking on goalies! Goalies have it tough enough! |
Madison does not offer Latin or any other specialty class that would allow a student from another boundary to transfer in and be eligible for sports. The only way a student can attend Madison who lives out of the boundary would be to take AP classes if their base school does not offer AP (Marshall and South Lakes are IB schools, for example). This has to be prior to entering the school as a ninth grader. If they do it later they are ineligible for a full year. Anyone else who attends Madison and wants to be eligible for sports must live inside the Madison boundaries. This particular player lives in the Madison boundaries and attended Landon previously. He left Landon and now is attending the appropriate public High school. Stop listening to the people who "tell you things". They do not know what they are talking about. |
| I don’t know if the policy has changed, but the part about entering as a freshman or having to sit out for a year is not correct. |
Hi, you're stupid and wrong - https://madisonhs.fcps.edu/department/world-languages |
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Why doesn't everyone try this idea...
Players: Go to the school you are zoned to go to. Work really hard and if you are good enough you will play a lot and help your team win. Coaches: Coach the players that are supposed to go to your school and live in that school zone. If you are a public school coach, dont recruit any players and try to find loop holes in the rules. If you are a great coach, take the kids you are supposed to have and develop them to be the best players and team they can be. Its actually pretty simple. |
| I don’t think public school coaches, at least in NoVa, try to recruit from other public schools. As someone noted, sometimes students transfer based on academic offerings, like IB or AP programs. |
So the fogo from Robinson a few years who went to Madison his senior year was a coincidence? |
The head football coach at The Saint James specifically got nabbed for this, as have a couple of other football coaches recently. Coaches, and others, absolutely recruit. Not EVERYONE, but some. |
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Why are we debating the topic of HS lacrosse programs taking players from out of their district?
Somebody posted that the Madison player lives in the district and that he and his sister both go to Madison, and nobody seems to dispute that. Yes, the St. James football is well known and the coach is a slimeball, but that is football, and I think it was confined to one school. Is there concern that any of the 7-8 teams that are in the discussion for best in the state are pulling players from the wrong district? If so, let's call them out. But I don't think that is the case. This feels like a debate over nothing. |