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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about lacrosse?[/quote]

Depends.  Girls lax college recruitment still is very much in the hands of travel/club coaches but some high school coaches are taking a bigger role.  Boys lax college recruitment has seen a huge shift in the past year or two from travel/club coaches to high school coaches.  For both, playing time matters.  Also, the prospect camps are very important.[/quote]

The main thing to know about lax recruitment seems to be that it starts EARLY.  Top D-1 prospects are mostly signed by sophomore year.[/quote]

I agree that [i]some[/i] students are signed by their sophomore year but with 10+ years of being watching the rat race for both boys and girls (meaning we have college, high school and middle school students), I think that a lot of this is over-hyped.  There are still good kids getting picked up by D-1s during the summer before senior year and although the Ivies are going earlier now many/most of them are still picking up kids during the same time period.  Yes, some kids are giving verbal commits freshman year (there are always going to be early adopters) and a few more during sophomore year but if you listen quietly you begin to hear that the hysterical talk is mostly about the same few kids and that there are still great lax players being shopped during junior year.  Make the best academic choice you can with the best financial package you can get and don't be in a mad rush just to commit only to find out the $ isn't following the talk and you've taken your kid out of the running for other looks with better $ if that is your goal (so basically D-1).[/quote]

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