2025 Girls Commits

[Anonymous]

There are many factors that play into why players select a school. Some within their control, others not. As lacrosse fans we should celebrate each players accomplishment. Keep in mind only about 4-5% of commits each year will receive offers from a top 20 D1 team. There are plenty of opportunities outside of this small niche. What’s most important is the school is the right fit for the player based on academics, lacrosse, location, etc.

As players stay humble and be the best player and teammate you can be. Don’t be that player who is remembered for the wrong reasons. For parents simply stay out. Your sideline demeanor is everything. Be positive and cheer on the team. Coaches notice and factor these things into the equation when making offers, and even after offers are made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many factors that play into why players select a school. Some within their control, others not. As lacrosse fans we should celebrate each players accomplishment. Keep in mind only about 4-5% of commits each year will receive offers from a top 20 D1 team. There are plenty of opportunities outside of this small niche. What’s most important is the school is the right fit for the player based on academics, lacrosse, location, etc.

As players stay humble and be the best player and teammate you can be. Don’t be that player who is remembered for the wrong reasons. For parents simply stay out. Your sideline demeanor is everything. Be positive and cheer on the team. Coaches notice and factor these things into the equation when making offers, and even after offers are made.

Actually, according to USA Lacrosse, that 4-5% is for all D1, roughly 125 schools. For top 20 or top 10, the percentage is a small fraction of that 4-5%. For top 10, it’s more like 0.0025%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are many factors that play into why players select a school. Some within their control, others not. As lacrosse fans we should celebrate each players accomplishment. Keep in mind only about 4-5% of commits each year will receive offers from a top 20 D1 team. There are plenty of opportunities outside of this small niche. What’s most important is the school is the right fit for the player based on academics, lacrosse, location, etc.

As players stay humble and be the best player and teammate you can be. Don’t be that player who is remembered for the wrong reasons. For parents simply stay out. Your sideline demeanor is everything. Be positive and cheer on the team. Coaches notice and factor these things into the equation when making offers, and even after offers are made.

Actually, according to USA Lacrosse, that 4-5% is for all D1, roughly 125 schools. For top 20 or top 10, the percentage is a small fraction of that 4-5%. For top 10, it’s more like 0.0025%

Okay, let's clean up our stats. Looks like the first poster is referencing a stat that needs a bit more context. OP's claim "4-5% of commits each year will receive an offer from a top 20 team" is close to accurate, but we need to work through the data to explain it.

There are now 129 D1 women's lacrosse programs. 20/129 is actually 15.5%. This is the percentage of D1 offers/commits that go to top 20 schools, with some likely fudging due to size of rosters.

For all of women's college lacrosse, however, and, noting that high academic D3 commits work a bit differently, there are a total of 531 women's college lacrosse programs--129 D1, 114 D2, and 288 D3. So let's do that math again: 20/531 is 3.8 percent of college lacrosse commits (so, pretty close to the 4% cited by the OP) of total women's lacrosse commits that get top 20 D1 offers. This is likely the intent of the OP's post.

I think the second poster is making a different point, but also relevant while we celebrate the amazing achievements on this board of DC area girls getting top 20 offers, but I'm not sure of the source of the numbers, so will attempt to recreate with cites.

According to In 2021-22, there were 96,762 participants in girls’ lacrosse in 3,028 high schools nationwide, according to figures from the High School Athletics Participation Survey. Those numbers place lacrosse as the 10th most popular sport for high school girls, says Nate Perry, NFSH manager of media relations. https://sportseventsmediagroup.com/womens-lacrosse-sets-the-pace-for-continued-growth/#:~:text=In%202021%2D22%2C%20there%20were,NFSH%20manager%20of%20media%20relations. A second source pegs the same number at over 100,000, so let's use that as a round number. https://scholarshipstats.com/lacrosse

So, with 100,000 high schoolers playing lacrosse and 200 spots open (on average) per year at the top 20 schools, each high school player has a 0.002 chance of getting an offer to a top 20 school. That's 0.2%. So, let's assume the second poster failed to convert to a percentage and we have a better understanding of the second point.

But wait, there may have been a second math mistake--the failure to adjust for the fact that there are 4 classes in high school at any given time, so the denominator is actually 25,000. Let's try that again.

Okay, so 200/25,000 means that 0.8% of each graduating high school class make up the commits to the top 20. For all D1, it's closer to 1,290/25,000 or 5.16%.

That means that the first poster and second poster were wrong as stated.

That said, what do these numbers add up to? I would offer that they suggest that it is really impressive to have an opportunity to commit to play college lacrosse. And, we should celebrate all of our area commits, continuing to play a sport they love at the next level, while adding to their college experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are many factors that play into why players select a school. Some within their control, others not. As lacrosse fans we should celebrate each players accomplishment. Keep in mind only about 4-5% of commits each year will receive offers from a top 20 D1 team. There are plenty of opportunities outside of this small niche. What’s most important is the school is the right fit for the player based on academics, lacrosse, location, etc.

As players stay humble and be the best player and teammate you can be. Don’t be that player who is remembered for the wrong reasons. For parents simply stay out. Your sideline demeanor is everything. Be positive and cheer on the team. Coaches notice and factor these things into the equation when making offers, and even after offers are made.

Actually, according to USA Lacrosse, that 4-5% is for all D1, roughly 125 schools. For top 20 or top 10, the percentage is a small fraction of that 4-5%. For top 10, it’s more like 0.0025%

Okay, let's clean up our stats. Looks like the first poster is referencing a stat that needs a bit more context. OP's claim "4-5% of commits each year will receive an offer from a top 20 team" is close to accurate, but we need to work through the data to explain it.

There are now 129 D1 women's lacrosse programs. 20/129 is actually 15.5%. This is the percentage of D1 offers/commits that go to top 20 schools, with some likely fudging due to size of rosters.

For all of women's college lacrosse, however, and, noting that high academic D3 commits work a bit differently, there are a total of 531 women's college lacrosse programs--129 D1, 114 D2, and 288 D3. So let's do that math again: 20/531 is 3.8 percent of college lacrosse commits (so, pretty close to the 4% cited by the OP) of total women's lacrosse commits that get top 20 D1 offers. This is likely the intent of the OP's post.

I think the second poster is making a different point, but also relevant while we celebrate the amazing achievements on this board of DC area girls getting top 20 offers, but I'm not sure of the source of the numbers, so will attempt to recreate with cites.

According to In 2021-22, there were 96,762 participants in girls’ lacrosse in 3,028 high schools nationwide, according to figures from the High School Athletics Participation Survey. Those numbers place lacrosse as the 10th most popular sport for high school girls, says Nate Perry, NFSH manager of media relations. https://sportseventsmediagroup.com/womens-lacrosse-sets-the-pace-for-continued-growth/#:~:text=In%202021%2D22%2C%20there%20were,NFSH%20manager%20of%20media%20relations. A second source pegs the same number at over 100,000, so let's use that as a round number. https://scholarshipstats.com/lacrosse

So, with 100,000 high schoolers playing lacrosse and 200 spots open (on average) per year at the top 20 schools, each high school player has a 0.002 chance of getting an offer to a top 20 school. That's 0.2%. So, let's assume the second poster failed to convert to a percentage and we have a better understanding of the second point.

But wait, there may have been a second math mistake--the failure to adjust for the fact that there are 4 classes in high school at any given time, so the denominator is actually 25,000. Let's try that again.

Okay, so 200/25,000 means that 0.8% of each graduating high school class make up the commits to the top 20. For all D1, it's closer to 1,290/25,000 or 5.16%.

That means that the first poster and second poster were wrong as stated.

That said, what do these numbers add up to? I would offer that they suggest that it is really impressive to have an opportunity to commit to play college lacrosse. And, we should celebrate all of our area commits, continuing to play a sport they love at the next level, while adding to their college experience.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many factors that play into why players select a school. Some within their control, others not. As lacrosse fans we should celebrate each players accomplishment. Keep in mind only about 4-5% of commits each year will receive offers from a top 20 D1 team. There are plenty of opportunities outside of this small niche. What’s most important is the school is the right fit for the player based on academics, lacrosse, location, etc.

As players stay humble and be the best player and teammate you can be. Don’t be that player who is remembered for the wrong reasons. For parents simply stay out. Your sideline demeanor is everything. Be positive and cheer on the team. Coaches notice and factor these things into the equation when making offers, and even after offers are made.

What's in a players control is their attitude/etiquette/personality. Bad news travels fast across the coaching community.

[Anonymous]

YJMA to Longwood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YJMA to Longwood

Wow YJMA is doing really well with their 2025 class, genuinely impressed

[Anonymous]

Great group of girls. 26’s are going down same path. 2 teams that will have multiple commitments. Not a YJ advertisement but the program has really turned around. Great director wonderful recruiting director and solid coaching throughout program.

[Anonymous]

Pride to Monmouth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pride to Monmouth

Kudos. Great get for Monmouth.

[Anonymous]

Pride to Iona

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pride to Iona

Her sister is a freshman there on the glax team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pride to Monmouth

Kudos. Great get for Monmouth.

2 years in a row for Pride -> Monmouth.

[Anonymous]

Have the YJMA goalies committed?

[Anonymous]

Nope