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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typical Landon basher that does not know anything about athletics. The IAC is a weak conference in the major sports minus lax. No IAC school has a need to recruit. It is a 6 team league. Back to original point..this is a great idea to freshen up the pool of applicants. Brings Landon tuition closer to Gonzaga and makes it a steal compared to STA.[/quote]

To get athletes.  The description is so vague that it can be used for any students . . . which means that it WILL be used for athletes.  Landon is not resigned to being number 2 in lacrosse in the area to Gonzaga (which the prior poster mentioned), and this is a way to give some extra money to athletes in general and lacrosse players in particular.  This is probably also a response to Bullis, which has been recruiting like crazy in football-basketball-lacrosse and handing out money freely in the process.

This is not some sort of knee-jerk "Landon-bashing" but rather based on experience.  Among other things, I've seen an email to a student enrolled at another school from a "person close to the Landon lacrosse program," which encouraged the student to apply to Landon over the summer and explicitly said that money was available.

Maybe these awards will all go to brilliant scholars who are terrible at sports but, again, if you look at the description it talks about "academically accomplished" which reads like loophole language to me.  [/quote]

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