IAC Lacrosse 2019 Season

[Anonymous]

Can we start a new thread to bitch about club lax?

This is supposed to be the IAC thread, and frankly, once you hit the HS level the age thing goes out the window.

[Anonymous]

Youth and middle school parents, not many people care about club lacrosse once you get into the high school ranks.

My son played for a VA based club team for a number of years. He is now playing for an IAC team and believe me his HS experience is far more important to him than playing in summer club tournaments up and down the East Coast.

Whether your son attends a private or plays for his local public school, they will enjoy competing with their classmates to win a league championship or State championship vs winning some money grab club clown lax tournament.

Trust me, we fell into the club lax trap as 6th grade parents and spent several weekends in the summer running up 95.

I couldn’t have been more thrilled when our son told us adurinf the Spring of his freshman year he simply wanted to focus on playing for his High School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youth and middle school parents, not many people care about club lacrosse once you get into the high school ranks.

My son played for a VA based club team for a number of years. He is now playing for an IAC team and believe me his HS experience is far more important to him than playing in summer club tournaments up and down the East Coast.

Whether your son attends a private or plays for his local public school, they will enjoy competing with their classmates to win a league championship or State championship vs winning some money grab club clown lax tournament.

Trust me, we fell into the club lax trap as 6th grade parents and spent several weekends in the summer running up 95.

I couldn’t have been more thrilled when our son told us adurinf the Spring of his freshman year he simply wanted to focus on playing for his High School.

I concur wholeheartedly.

[Anonymous]

Does the IAC have a dedicated web site for athletics? I don't see it through a web search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we start a new thread to bitch about club lax?

This is supposed to be the IAC thread, and frankly, once you hit the HS level the age thing goes out the window.[/quote}

The discussion was based on online comments from a recent WP on Prep's win over Landon as well as a current ranking of DC based teams (mostly private w/ some {gasp} public listed as well) - talking about how Prep draws talent from holdback or delayed enrollments at Mater Dei, etc. Some good feedback - understand age isn't such a thing at varsity level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the IAC have a dedicated web site for athletics? I don't see it through a web search.

Don't waste your time.

There is no IAC central staff or office or anything. There is no commissioner, there is no office and there is no web site I have ever seen.

The IAC is only an association of the schools and the Athletic Directors are the representatives of the schools and the resources are all at the schools.

In fact, as a result there re very few rules to speak of. It's all based on what the majority wants of doesn't want.

[Anonymous]

Parents who send their kids to Mater Dei are only focused on sports and hanging out with Catholic families. The school is actually owned by the Edward Bennett Williams family. They ask everyone to reclass because it's an extra year of tuition for the school, and the kids are bigger on the court/field.

It is a joke academically. It's school motto is actually, "Work hard, play hard, pray hard, but most of all, be a good guy!" Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who send their kids to Mater Dei are only focused on sports and hanging out with Catholic families. The school is actually owned by the Edward Bennett Williams family. They ask everyone to reclass because it's an extra year of tuition for the school, and the kids are bigger on the court/field.

It is a joke academically. It's school motto is actually, "Work hard, play hard, pray hard, but most of all, be a good guy!" Seriously.

How is it an extra year of tuition for the school unless they are all repeating grades AT the school? That never happens. You are an idiot. Our son did first grade at another school then repeated 1st at MD. He’s in high school now. And yes his size and strength as well as maturity make him a starter on his IAC team. It doesn’t all even out, but keep telling yourself that. If you don’t hold your son back when you have the chance you are just biting off your nose to spite your face (or however that saying goes). Ask any coach or teacher even in any private in this area if they would prefer that your son be a year older. If they are honest with you they will tell you they LOVE older boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who send their kids to Mater Dei are only focused on sports and hanging out with Catholic families. The school is actually owned by the Edward Bennett Williams family. They ask everyone to reclass because it's an extra year of tuition for the school, and the kids are bigger on the court/field.

It is a joke academically. It's school motto is actually, "Work hard, play hard, pray hard, but most of all, be a good guy!" Seriously.

How is it an extra year of tuition for the school unless they are all repeating grades AT the school? That never happens. You are an idiot. Our son did first grade at another school then repeated 1st at MD. He’s in high school now. And yes his size and strength as well as maturity make him a starter on his IAC team. It doesn’t all even out, but keep telling yourself that. If you don’t hold your son back when you have the chance you are just biting off your nose to spite your face (or however that saying goes). Ask any coach or teacher even in any private in this area if they would prefer that your son be a year older. If they are honest with you they will tell you they LOVE older boys.

So was your son born after 9/1 or was he already an early entry 1st grader prior to repeating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the IAC have a dedicated web site for athletics? I don't see it through a web search.

The IAC barely holds itself together. At any given moment 2 of the leagues school (likely the NOVA ones) want to kick Prep out of the IAC. Given what they did in football last year they'll probably be rumblings to at least remove them in football.

Like an earlier poster said, there's no central staff, no commissioner or anything like that. Just a group of schools that created acting in their own perceived best interests that formed a league.

[Anonymous]

Bullis 16, Cardinal Gibbons 7

STA 13, The Heights 7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the IAC have a dedicated web site for athletics? I don't see it through a web search.

The IAC barely holds itself together. At any given moment 2 of the leagues school (likely the NOVA ones) want to kick Prep out of the IAC. Given what they did in football last year they'll probably be rumblings to at least remove them in football.

Like an earlier poster said, there's no central staff, no commissioner or anything like that. Just a group of schools that created acting in their own perceived best interests that formed a league.

That take is historically inaccurate. It was Bullis that led the charge to throw Prep football out of the league.

I doubt that will happen again now that Bullis had completely changed its approach.

But I do agree the League is held together with bubble gum and spit. Why the Virginia privates don't create a league is a mystery to me. It's probably due more to inertia and sloth than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Mater Delay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who send their kids to Mater Dei are only focused on sports and hanging out with Catholic families. The school is actually owned by the Edward Bennett Williams family. They ask everyone to reclass because it's an extra year of tuition for the school, and the kids are bigger on the court/field.

It is a joke academically. It's school motto is actually, "Work hard, play hard, pray hard, but most of all, be a good guy!" Seriously.

My son attends Mater Dei. He did reclassify, but it was probably the best thing we ever did for him in terms of emotional maturity. Academically, it is NO joke. In sixth grade, he has 2 - 3 hours of homework a night—sometime more. Unlike MCPS, they have semester exams. Yes, the son of Edward Bennett Williams is President of the school, but I am not sure why that is relevant. Families who send their boys to Mater Dei often do so because they see the school as a gateway to Prep, GZ or Saint Johns (usually, in that order). I could see my son attending any of the aforementioned high schools, but I could not see him anywhere other than at Mater Dei. He absolutely loves it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who send their kids to Mater Dei are only focused on sports and hanging out with Catholic families. The school is actually owned by the Edward Bennett Williams family. They ask everyone to reclass because it's an extra year of tuition for the school, and the kids are bigger on the court/field.

It is a joke academically. It's school motto is actually, "Work hard, play hard, pray hard, but most of all, be a good guy!" Seriously.

How is it an extra year of tuition for the school unless they are all repeating grades AT the school? That never happens. You are an idiot. Our son did first grade at another school then repeated 1st at MD. He’s in high school now. And yes his size and strength as well as maturity make him a starter on his IAC team. It doesn’t all even out, but keep telling yourself that. If you don’t hold your son back when you have the chance you are just biting off your nose to spite your face (or however that saying goes). Ask any coach or teacher even in any private in this area if they would prefer that your son be a year older. If they are honest with you they will tell you they LOVE older boys.

Sorry that the truth hurts. Kids at Mater Dei are generally academically below other private school/parochial kids. It's a total scam by the school because instead of entering, say, as a 7th grader, MD convinces the family to repeat 7th grade. So they are benefiting on the athletic field as well as the business office.

Compare the grade/test scores of a MD kid and, say, a Sidwell kid. Night and day.

LOL how you are justifying holding your son back just to get an edge in youth sports. LOL.