lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Any discussion of lax culture really belongs on the a suburban VA board with SSSA's domination of the women's AND men's lax scene this year.

Nice win by the boy's @ Landon last night.

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Anonymous wrote:So in HS you can play 5 years if 1 year is JV? Or is that only for boarding schools?

I don't know the PG rules. I believe it is league by league, and the NE boarding school leagues generally allow PG years. In the private schools in this area, there is an increasing trend in boys' sports of a player transferring to a new school, and being "reclassified" into a new grade -- e.g. repeating a year. If the player played JV at the prior year, the league generally lets him play four years of varsity (for example, the 20 year old pitcher for Maret who came from Potomac School). If he played varsity as a ninth grader, he'd have to sit out a year at the new school (for example, the player on Bullis's team who came from Georgetown Prep, repeated a year at Bullis, and literally "redshirted" like in college by playing no games that year -- don't know if he practiced with the team during his "off year").

Thanks for the clarification. The Bullis player had scoliosis surgery (this was reported in WaPo - I don't think it is okay to talk about specific children's medical conditions but it was in the paper) and had to make up the school that he missed. So that would technically be a medical waiver in college - kind of like Rob Pannell at Cornell.

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Anonymous wrote:Any discussion of lax culture really belongs on the a suburban VA board with SSSA's domination of the women's AND men's lax scene this year.

Nice win by the boy's @ Landon last night.

Are there any VA club teams that usually populate the boys SSSA team? I'd imagine they'd deserve some credit.

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Plant.

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Anonymous wrote:Hockey players do not go to college from HS they go to academy then to college.

LOL. Another mom who knows nothing. Yes, many top hockey prospects play in various hockey leagues instead of going to college. BUT many college players end up in the NHL as well. Stick to knitting.

Maybe you should learn to read. I did not say that hockey players do not go to college or the NHL, what I did was point out there is a step between HS and D1 hockey. Where I am from we call that "academy". This is why Cornell has 25 year old seniors playing hockey.

You kiss your daughter with that mouth? Actually you probably do.

And you also imply that this is the path all NCAA hockey players follow. That is incorrect. Get over yourself.

The majority of the Yale team (just won the NCAA national championship) were NOT direct entries, but came either from the Canadian junior leagues or the US equivalent. I believe the Yale goalie turned 25 on the day of final, and 21-year-old freshmen Division I ice hockey players are the norm -- it's the 18 year olds who are the exception.

and Cornell's best player Rob Pannell went to HS for 5 years and is a 5th year senior playing lacrosse - not sure how he was able to play 5 years of lacrosse at Cornell.

You obviously don't follow college sports. Pannell had a serious injury last year, missing almost the entire season. Although it is uncommon in the Ivy League, college athletes are granted additional years of eligibility all the time, usually because of a season-ending injury.

He had an injury in his Junior year after 2 games and Ivy league schools do not give medical waivers. So why was he allowed to play year 5? He actually took the Fall off and only came back in the Spring to take some classes and graduate and play.

He was allowed because Pannell appealed to the Ivy League for a 5th year and it was granted. If it hadn't, he would have simply transferred to another school (unlike several other NCAA sports, he would not have been forced to sit out a year).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any discussion of lax culture really belongs on the a suburban VA board with SSSA's domination of the women's AND men's lax scene this year.

Nice win by the boy's @ Landon last night.

The number of moms on this board who know nothing about lacrosse is staggering. The SSSAS girls program is dominant, but the boys team - while it had a great run to close the season - is not "dominant". The dominant team in the area has been Gonzaga, but there have been a number of strong boys teams in this region.

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Gonzaga rules!!!!

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Any local teams win the npyll championship?

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Anonymous wrote:Any local teams win the npyll championship?

The semifinals/championship is next week.

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Gonzaga still rules!

[Anonymous]

I'll send my kid to Landon or Prep any day over Gonzaga. Just look at where the IAC schools send their lacrosse players to college. Its night and day.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll send my kid to Landon or Prep any day over Gonzaga. Just look at where the IAC schools send their lacrosse players to college. Its night and day.

Lists, please.

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Didn't Pannell drop out of Cornell last year and request readmission as a 5th year? I think that's what happened, so he could delay graduation and play his last year.

As for high school, what I understand is that he was a very late bloomer. Was going to go to Quinnipiac but became so good he wanted to back out and look at better options. Found a spot on Deerfield Academy's basketball and lacrosse teams as a postgrad and Cornell got him.

Late bloomers like him are increasingly hurt by this earlier and earlier recruiting. The schools recruiting the most sophomores/freshman seem to be Duke, UVA, UNC and Hopkins. They are the problem. Ivies can't give a verbal offer to a sophomore or freshman that I know of, and so they will be starting out behind. So far, Cornell has shown the ability to ring a lot out of true student-athletes that may not have the most talent. We'll see if it conitnues.

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Maybe if the elite schools like Duke, Virginia, Penn and Cornell that continue to admit Landon boys would spend more time on DCUM they'd learn not to bring in the Landon kids. But, on the other hand, it's kind of nice when a Landon boy helps you win a National Championship with three goals and two assists. Well done Josh Offutt.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9316101/duke-rallies-syracuse-win-ncaa-lacrosse-championship

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe if the elite schools like Duke, Virginia, Penn and Cornell that continue to admit Landon boys would spend more time on DCUM they'd learn not to bring in the Landon kids. But, on the other hand, it's kind of nice when a Landon boy helps you win a National Championship with three goals and two assists. Well done Josh Offutt.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9316101/duke-rallies-syracuse-win-ncaa-lacrosse-championship

You couldn't highlight the kid's accomplishments without the snark? Liked how he played -- he was one of the big drivers. The real MVP had to be the Duke FOGO, though -- wow, he really turned things around with his face-off dominance.