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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah in terms of becoming an elite player, say from 8th grade on, for boys size and speed swamp everything else.  Average athletes with good stick skills do well in the elementary years.  But for high school and beyond it is really about athleticism.  Stick skills are easily learned. [/quote]

Clearly this is a dad post from a non player.  Stick skills take hours and years, great athletes without stick skills cannot play this game.  All the kids at the elite level have speed, size really depends on position, lots of great players who were not huge.  Stick skills and lacrosse IQ are key.  Some kids are just ballers.[/quote]

Another lifelong, D1 lacrosse player here. Lacrosse stick skills are super easy to learn, seriously. Those saying they aren't are the ones who obviously never played. Athleticism, specifically speed and size, are the key. Without those, don't bother.[/quote]

Not buying it. No lifelong D1 lacrosse player would ever post that. The rest of us just know. [/quote]

I don’t know why this is controversial. Top D1 is a bunch of elite athletes. Elite athletes have . . . elite athleticism that allows them to pick skills, including stick skills, very easily. Without athleticism it’s not going to happen. [/quote]

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