2023 Girls Recruiting
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Anonymous
Pretty sure they were referring to the notre dame win, not the Mercy win. Do you want to bash Duke for Playing Elon while you are at it? Or you just pick and choose which cupcake victories you want to site. |
Anonymous
| The Detroit Mercy comment clarifies that the poster is not serious about talking about lacrosse. Rather just has an ex to grind and looking for criticize. I think the earlier description of dumb ass was apropos |
Anonymous
| 2024 parent here: If the kids can’t get accepted to school until Sr. Year, what qualifies as a Commit? |
Anonymous
A school will make an offer to your kid sometime on/after 9/1 of Junior year. It doesn't guarantee they will be accepted to the school. It's a verbal offer and non binding. Until the NLI is signed either side can nix the offer. |
Anonymous
More often it is the player that decommitts not the school. The school will have a good reason to pull an offer or it would be tough to get support from club programs in the future. However a team could always committ more players and change the scholarship % up to the NLI offer. |
Anonymous
You're right...most times if it's pulled is because of off field incident of the player OR change in coaching staff. This is why you never want to burn bridges! |
Anonymous
Wait a Minute. Let’s not mislead anyone here. Very rarely is there scholarship money involved for girls lacrosse. And if there is it’s low - no where near tuition. Plus if it’s a good academic school, kid has to meet certain academic and test score cutoffs. Finally schools do rescind offers every single year. Usually due to bad scores, a couple of bad grades, reportable bad behavior or poor social media choices. Also D3 is totally different. |
Anonymous
| In reference to the D3 is different person from a PP: Is every DIII commit in Jr year just theater? No real commitment from the school? |
Anonymous
| Until any athletes are officially accepted and they sign their letters of intent, no D1, D2 or D3 verbal commitments are binding. Kids still have to get the grades and test scores to get into the schools. |
Anonymous
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"Very rarely is there scholarship money involved for girls lacrosse."
They have 13 scholarships to spread out over the roster. On a 36 women roster that a little over a 1/3 scholarship per kid. Some will get more some less. Is that not accurate? |
Anonymous
It is not. All schools are different and distribute whatever scholarship money - not everyone has the same amount - they have in any way they like. Many kids get no money at all. And many schools, in particular the top academic schools (like the Ivies and D3s) have no scholarship money at all. You don’t play lacrosse as an avenue get a free ride to college. It’s one reason it’s considered a sport of the privileged. You have to have money to play it seriously |
Anonymous
| I think the BC invite went out widely, as my committed daughter got the same. My daughter was not recruited by BC during normal recruiting time last summer and early fall, so I’m quite skeptical. Maybe there was a certain criteria for invites but if they were really interested I think they would have been asking around before now. Like you though were thrilled with where she landed so it’s not tempting. |
Anonymous
I’m not referring to D3 or Ivy, I’m talking your basic D1 program. Seems you are telling me many D1 players get no % of scholarship money? |
Anonymous
It's a bad look for the school/coach if they make "offers" (which is essentially saying you have a roster spot) and then pull them. If a coach makes a habit of that, it will damage their reputation and girls won't want to go there. A school has only so many roster spots they are looking to fill each year, so while there's no money involved, the "offer" is not just for optics. |
Anonymous
That is accurate. 13 scholarships refer to a fully funded D1 program. For only D1 (non-Ivy) programs on the women's side, in our experience, those scholarships are typically split up amongst the team as you describe, at different percentages. Typically, a coach will offer a higher percentage to the first few girls in a recruiting class, and then levels were go down from there in the class. Sure, it is possible some may get nothing, and that top girls in the entire country get offered quite a bit. Further, the coach will often back load the percentages, meaning freshman year scholarship money is a lower percentage then senior year. We know a girl whose fractional scholarship was changed to a majority scholarship after her performance freshman year (at a mid level D1 school). One curve ball is for public universities. Their money pool is based on out of state tuition. So in theory, if their in state tuition price was half of their out of state price, they could double their “full rides” from 13 to 26 if they had a roster of only in state girls. That example is extreme, but you can see how it would provide a coach at a public school more flexibility. Also, if your “out of state” child has great grades, they may qualify for an in state tuition waiver from the public school, further helping the public coach with spreading their scholarship dollars around. Note that all these examples have nothing to do w grants or need based aid. Also, some parents recognize this athletic scholarship dynamic and will tell the coach during the process that they require no athletic money, possibly making their daughter a more attractive recruit versus a recruit that a coach would have to allocate scholarship dollars to. |