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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have a rising senior this year. Late start to lax but recruited to private to play and is a D1 recruit (not quite top level) and certainly a very solid D3 recruit. Plays for one of the big 3 club teams mentioned for DC area. DS has not attended individual showcases but did do UnderArmour a few years, a few prospect days, visited a few schools by invites.

My take is that some clubs by junior year run games not to win but to make sure every player has an opportunity to be seen by the coaches at these tournaments which is what you as a parent should want. A club's goal is to get as many of their team playing lax in college as possible if that's what the kid wants.

Also, with the recruiting change, this year it appears that the very top players - say 125 or so go recruited early on - many of them were probably committed at a younger age and grandfathered in. There are a large number of 2020s who are still being watched and will visit schools this summer and fall. That's a big change from the previous way.

There are kids whose parents are signing them up for every thing - showcases, prospect days and so on plus club play. We see signs of burnout and injuries with most of those kids. The effort required at the college level is huge and I don't know that these kids will ultimately keep up their love of the game. Love of the game by the player is all a family should really care about ultimately. While lax may get a player a bump to a bit more competitive college, it may not. It's really a cr@pshoot waiting to see which colleges are interested although players can reach out to whomever.

Third - make sure your player has time and energy to actually send out emails and fill out player questionnaires by junior year. While coaches may keep an extra eye on younger player teams who win major tournaments, they are very wishy-washy until the end unless your player is a 5 star recruit. Also they switch jobs constantly. Your player needs to contact the asst coach for their position, copy the head coach and have a good video to send.

From what we've seen, you want your player to peak with club play by sophomore through junior summer. That's when they'll really get noticed. Do some individual showcases then and prospect day at any colleges they're obsessed with - ours is obsessed with none and many boys aren't really so no worries there - just makes it interesting but in the long run possibly less disappointing.  Better to focus on weightlifting as appropriate, footwork, speed, ground balls and catching/wall ball daily before then.  Lax IQ and great field vision/anticipation/teamwork is also important.

Finally, don't let your kid forget that lax is about a team, not ball hogs, because coaches don't really want ball hogs. They much prefer a great shooter who also isn't afraid to assist.[/quote]

As a middle school lax parent, I really appreciated the thoughtful tone of this overview.  [/quote]

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