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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to lacrosse…does anyone know if Wakefield had to forfeit, or did the game just get cancelled? It seems like the school really has to work to be so consistently bad. Wouldn’t any school at least occasionally, by chance, have a decent team? If Wakefield isn’t willing to even be competitive, I’m not sure having a team is good for the girls.[/quote]

Look. Wakefield never has a competitive team because girls lacrosse is an elitist north arlington sport. Starting with the arlington rec program, the sport is exclusively a north arlington game. All recruitment, all practices are in n arlington and only when the league needs game fields do they step foot
In south arlington. The county reinforces this by ignoring the middle schools
In south arlington by not providing goals for practice- all the fields in n arlington have goals on field- but ya can’t find one save two on the Wakefield
Campus albeit with holes in the net.

The lack of equity of play in the game is significant- by the time girls get to high school it is too late to start and be competitive with fx and n arlington students who have been playing for a decade both at rec and in club play.

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Don't have the Arlington expertise to comment on the above, and the tone is intense, but the PP brings up a very important issue that I think we have to work on as a community--drawing in more minorities and lower-income athletes into girls lacrosse.  Lacrosse is an expensive sport.  From the equipment (good stick over $300 now), to leagues and clinics, and certainly for club/travel teams.  And to the poster's point, if there are no goals, it's hard to do much to work on your game.

I don't profess to have the answers, but I believe those of us who enjoy the game and what it does for our daughters, and sit comfortably in HS pyramids that have good lacrosse feeder programs, have a responsibility to try and improve access for other.  The results will benefit the community, the sport, and maybe make a difference in some young people's lives.  [/quote]

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