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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know an athlete who was a very good basketball player, and decided to try lacrosse.  Picked up a stick for the first time Sophomore year.  By the end of Junior season he was an impact player.  By senior season, Captain.  This was a VHSL 6A program that goes about .500 each season. Totally doable for a strong athlete with good work ethic.

Not doable at good privates in IAC or WCAC.[/quote]

I agree that basketball skills are the MOST transferable to lacrosse. The games are very similar.

I am aware of at least one boy who picked up his first lacrosse stick as a freshman at Prep and went on to be an All American at Georgetown.

He was a good all around athlete and also played football and basketball.[/quote]

Hockey is more transferrable.  There are many similarities with gameplay dynamics; both sports have goals, goalies, and behind-the-net play; both use sticks; both require a focus on quick, strategic plays; both involve checking and aggressive body contact.   My friend's son played AA and AAA hockey as a kid until he realized it wasn't going anywhere (he didn't want to leave home to play juniors), so he played high school football, hockey, and lacrosse, and very little club lacrosse until later in high school for exposure. He played at a good D1 school and then in the PLL.  Once he decided he was a lacrosse player, I think he blew up and exceeded many people's expectations, besides maybe his college coach, who recruited him partly because he was a 3-sport athlete. [/quote]

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