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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One challenge as I see it, which then leads to an opportunity, for StA is that they don't even seem to reach out to talented younger lacrosse players to consider the school.  I do know that they reach out through the NL network but don't seem to even connect with kids outside the program.  I know on one of the top 8th grade club teams not a single kid was talking about StA as they looked to high school.  I think there is an opportunity for StA to begin to grow their program if they just spent some time doing basic outreach.  Things will not change overnight but doing some of the basic stuff might help.  Interesting blog post from a StA grad on this sort of thing: https://www.theexchanged.com/sports-backend/the-founders-cup-how-can-we-do-it[/quote]

STA’s priority is academics. Period. They don’t want to recruit or need to recruit. If you feel the lacrosse program at STA is not strong enough for you or your son then you should look elsewhere. STA has good athletics but academics are the priority. If STA starts recruiting more lacrosse players they will lose the academic power houses.[/quote]

OP here and never said academics was not a priority but I don't think reaching out to kids to have them take a look at the school is really recruiting as defined by many on this board (lower academic standards to get in, financial aid offered, etc.).  If the school does not want to do even basic reach out so be it, we can then end this thread and accept that for the foreseeable future StA will simply suck at lacrosse.  There are plenty of kids who can handle StA academically who are going to other schools with better programs simply because the school does not show any interest.  You make one large generalization at the end of your post that is simply not true, recruiting more lacrosse players does not mean they "will lose the academic power houses" (horribly written sentence but guess I get the point you are making).  You assume lacrosse payers at other schools cannot hack StA, which based on the number of Ivy and other top academic college commitments from other high school lacrosse programs proves how wrong this thinking is and likely why the program is not very good.  [/quote]

+1,000

It's a lame excuse to say encouraging smart good lacrosse players to attend STA will lower their standards.  Please, get over yourself. Your suggestion that lacrosse players are dumb is offensive and completely inaccurate. There are plenty of highly intelligent lacrosse players who could easily handle the academics at STA. Your STA snowflake is not the smartest kid out there, hate to burst your bubble.[/quote]

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