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[quote=Anonymous][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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+1 - 100 percent concur with this assessment. Wakefield might have a couple of club players on its team, while many (most? I'm not sure) of the players on Yorktown's team also play club. W-L also has a bunch who play on club teams. It makes a huge difference in terms of skills, obviously.  [/quote]

Unfortunately, this is the current sad state of high school sports. And it’s only going to get worse. In many cases if you don’t play club (and parents willing to pay the ante) from an early age, you’ll have no chance of competing at the high school level. There was a time when rec and the school programs were all the kids needed to be competitive.[/quote]

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