'21-22' DMV LACROSSE OUTLOOK

[Anonymous]

PVI talent pool is extremely deep. Coach is outstanding but has yet to prove himself on the big stage. They will have strong season.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the people trying to suggest SJC lacks when it come to academics still think that getting their legacy student into an Ivy means success. That going to Maryland or Penn State or Syracuse means you are not getting any kind of "real" education. My entire departments faculty at my small liberal arts college was made up of Ivy grads except for one from Hopkins. If their degrees were so good.....how did they end up teaching at a small college in New England?

Several players at SJC said no thanks to Ivy this past recruiting cycle. Ivys wanted them and they could easily get in from SJC. Your just hating that the lax team is better than your kids. It’s ok. They lost 2 players, so maybe you can compete this year. Doubt it.

Several SJC players did not say "no thanks" to Ivy schools, because the SJC players did not get an offer. It is true Ivy schools were interested in a few players, but it never got to a level of an offer.

This is 100% false.
Several Ivy offers to 2019 Dane Hall
2020s Haley and Alvarez
2022s Trujillo, and Figueiras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When was the last time SJC had a player attend an Ivy League school?

George Alvarez in 2020, goalie and punter extraordinaire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its Prep/Zaga/STA dad....getting bitter that SJC has been beating the doors off them in sports so they want to try and go to academics.....which is laughable but predictable as they want always go to that card.

Arguing that any WCAC school (besides the heights who are strong on the academic side, but not even close athletically) is truly focused on academics above all is ridiculous. SJC/PVI/DM are all practically public schools. Gonzaga is more concerned with their football/basketball/lacrosse programs and social Justice than any educational matters. 25K/year for an SAT of 1310… No thanks!

IAC schools like Albans/Prep/Landon are your top option for those who are “Student-Athletes”

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Anonymous wrote:Its Prep/Zaga/STA dad....getting bitter that SJC has been beating the doors off them in sports so they want to try and go to academics.....which is laughable but predictable as they want always go to that card.

Arguing that any WCAC school (besides the heights who are strong on the academic side, but not even close athletically) is truly focused on academics above all is ridiculous. SJC/PVI/DM are all practically public schools. Gonzaga is more concerned with their football/basketball/lacrosse programs and social Justice than any educational matters. 25K/year for an SAT of 1310… No thanks!

IAC schools like Albans/Prep/Landon are your top option for those who are “Student-Athletes”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its Prep/Zaga/STA dad....getting bitter that SJC has been beating the doors off them in sports so they want to try and go to academics.....which is laughable but predictable as they want always go to that card.

Arguing that any WCAC school (besides the heights who are strong on the academic side, but not even close athletically) is truly focused on academics above all is ridiculous. SJC/PVI/DM are all practically public schools. Gonzaga is more concerned with their football/basketball/lacrosse programs and social Justice than any educational matters. 25K/year for an SAT of 1310… No thanks!

IAC schools like Albans/Prep/Landon are your top option for those who are “Student-Athletes”

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Anonymous wrote:I am FLOORED that some yahoo on here is claiming St Johns is an academically strong school and “equal to the Big3.” It’s literally the bottom of the barrel academics-wise. It’s right there alongside Bullis as the school that kids who aren’t able to get into one of the better privates goes to.

I believe you are showing your age with this comment. The statistics and matriculation facts just don't back this up.

Nope. Try again. I have kids currently in DMV privates - more than one. I am extremely familiar with the privates in tge DMV and their “statistics and matriculation facts” as you do oddly call it. St Johns is one of the least academically rigorous private schools in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:St Andrews coach just took the job at Good Counsel, maybe they've decided to get serious about lacrosse. Four new coaches in the WCAC at Gonzaga, Dematha, Good Counsel, and The Heights. St Johns still has to be considered the team to beat.

Gonzaga lost to Paul VI, Dematha and St Johns last season. Paul VI lost to Episcopal, St Johns and Landon. Dematha lost to St Johns (twice), Heights lost to all of these teams except GC, and GC lost to everyone listed.

No idea what the 11th/12th grade talent looks like at these programs, but looks pretty tight between Gonzaga/Dematha/Paul VI after St Johns, with GC and the Heights in the third tier. Dematha, GC, and the Heights will be competing for a lot of the same pool DC/MD recruits that are overlooked by SJC (and Gonzaga to a lesser extent) as the new coaches try to build up the programs and get a pipeline going. Should be good competition over the next few years.

Ranking of all the new coaches;

1. D. Mitchell - DeMatha
2. H. Mitchell - Heights
3. D. Smith - Good Counsel
4. Jeff King - Gonzaga

Reasoning;

While many consider Boh Mitchell the better coach of the brothers (which he undoubtedly is), the heights is still at loss here because they had both Mitchell’s before hand. D. Smith is an awesome recruiter and got some serious talent to come over to a weak St. Andrew’s, but on the field he is a weak coach. As far as Jeff King, it was a horrible hire. Instead of taking a more experienced and knowledgeable coach, Gonzaga took a former Assistant coach from their inner circle.

I have never heard anyone say Boh is a better coach than his brother.

[Anonymous]

IAC is the same as it was in the 80's... below St. Anselm's for academics..below any WCAC (Metro Conference for you old timers) in any sports aside from maybe fencing and squash and getting the snot beat out of you at parties...especially by Whitman and BCC kids. WCAC does not care about IAC academic pretentions.....but if it makes you feel better....keep bringing it up...we love it

[Anonymous]

$45k for high 1300 SATs, middle of the road athletics in pretty much every sport, development of a kid with highly inflated sense of self worth, complete dbag parents who are so insecure they come on anonymous forums to bash kids. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

We are delving into “my dad can beat up your dad” territory. I have seen less childishness in TikTok comment sections. A bunch of you to grow up.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry....but you IAC people need to get over yourselves....this is not the 80's or the 90's......Wooton and RM are laughing at you. People are saving their $

[Anonymous]

Churchill is too

[Anonymous]

and yes as far as real HS sports goes...PVI looks better

[Anonymous]

and my Dad can and could beat the ever loving F out of your Dad, lol