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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STA played 3 cupcake programs todays  to go 3-0[/quote]

Still, 8 of their kids were admitted today to Harvard, Princeton and Yale.  [/quote]

Ivies don't admit in November, but nice try. Not to mention, last year's matriculation was eye opening for a lot of STA parents. Ivy admits were athletes, legacy, and big donors. Lots of good/top students did not get into their desired schools. STA matriculations are not what they used to be. [/quote]

35 to Ivys, Duke, and Williams caliber school's, 33 to Wake, BC, Notre Dame level and 8 to Oregon, PSU and James Madison types.  You are spot off.  [/quote]

Who cares?  Go away this is a lacrosse thread. BC JmU wake and Oregon don’t even have lacrosse teams. [/quote]

The idiot who said “STA matriculations are not what they used to be” seemed to care and needed to be put in a factually accurate place.  I am sorry to have had to smack a fool down on this thread but when fools need smackin, they gotta be smacked.  [/quote]

Well STA certainly sucks at lacrosse commitments to college. They have some of the lowest numbers in lax recruiting in the DMV. If you want to play lax at the collegiate level do not go tot STA. Facts.[/quote]

STA 2023 class had at least 6 College commits. Definitely fewer than some of the other programs, but don’t think that constitutes “sucking”. [/quote]

One half way decent class doesn’t make up for all the other years. STA has some of the lowest, if not the lowest college commits for lacrosse. If you want to play lacrosse in college do not go to STA.  The competition level just isn’t the same. Only reason to attend STA is if your lacrosse player isn’t good enough to play on the top teams in the DMV. Boys who don’t play much on the top teams can start on the STA varsity team. And vice versa, the majority of kids who start on STA’s team likely wouldn’t play much on top teams. STA is just on a lower level and does not have the talent nor depth of top DMV teams.[/quote]

Couple of problems with that: STA's tuition is one of the highest in the area and might be the highest with the donation "suggestions" and the academic standards aren't lowered for lacrosse players. They also prefer to admit legacies with  family $$ rather than new families with no association to the school. I'll give credit to Heeter though, he's not afraid to schedule games and he's done better with what he has more so than any STA coach long before him. [/quote]

These are excuses. Many lacrosse players come from wealthy families and are academically strong students. The IAC, especially, is full of teams with wealthy students who are strong academically. The Ivy League is especially picky about academics and recruiting strong academic students. Plenty of Ivy lax commits out of schools like Georgetown Prep, Bullis, Gonzaga, and Landon. Saying STA is disadvantaged because of high tuition and strong academics, is just an excuse. STA is disadvantaged because they have a weak program and history in lax. Strong players who hope to play in college will choose a historically strong program that competes at the highest level with the strongest teammates. [/quote]

Those aren't excuses. Those are reasons. If you are choosing a school because your kid might go to play at Tampa or Lafayette to play lax, that's a pretty bad decision process. STA is a high level academic high school which tries to be competitive at sports without going to the lengths of the WCAC and some of the other schools in the area with certain sports. I don't have it at my fingertips, but I'm pretty sure STA places a very close percentage of players in Ivy/equivalent schools. After that, I don't think the average STA student and family are really interested in going to Jacksonville. Many families don't bother applying to STA because of the significant barriers to admission. [/quote]

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