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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the top club teams have more public school team members than priavte school players, none.  Its still largely a private school sport.[/quote]

Check back in 10 years. This post will be laughable (and inaccurate) by then.  The rise of Loudon public school lax is noticeable, and soon MoCo will be able to compete with the lower ranked WCAC and IAC teams.[/quote]

Pleazzzzze.  Public school lacrosse has one or two goods.players per team and the rest are football players trying to knock peoples heads off.  The level of team play pales in comparison, and always will.  [/quote]

But it doesn't pale in comparison because there are better athletes in private.   It pales right now because Lacrosse, like hockey, like golf, are very very expensive sports to play.  Most publics dont have lacrosse as a result.  It is just beginning to get funded at schools in DC and NYC.  If the funding and interest continues, which it looks like it will given the college scholarships and hooks available, you can be sure that more and more non white, non private school kids will be winning championships and taking spots in college from white private school kids.  i think it will take at least 10 years for it to become an established sport in all major urban areas with dominant public school teams but I have no doubt it will happen.   If I had a 6year old and I was grooming him for a lax scholarship in college I may reconsider putting much effort into it.  But I guess my white private school kid is ok for now.  [/quote]

And to the people looking to shoot down my argument, lacrosse is very expensive but not prohibitive if the equipment can be provided.  Hockey and golf do need specific arenas to play that are expensive in and of themselves to maintain and access. [/quote]

The larger p[roblem is the parents.  Lacrosse has a long history in certain circles and parents are critocal to success in lacrosse.  To truly improve stick work and skills takes a lot of extra work - coaching, clinincs, priavtes. 
Parents who themsleves arent from a background that "get" lacrosse will (and do, I see it in DC area all the time) will not pay for all the extra lessons and time it takes to make a superioir lax player.  Lacrosse is not like football or basketball.  Advanced stick skills are very specific and not intuitive.  [/quote]

This is completely untrue. The keys to success in lacrosse are stick skills (which can be learned by anyone with a certain amount of coordination and decent athleticism) and, more importantly, speed. It is not a hard sport to learn or play. You have to be mentally tough, but private lessons are absolutely NOT the key to great lacrosse players--only parents who think their kids are great.[/quote]

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