Reply to Georgetown Visitation Lacrosse- Recruiting Practices

Forum Index » Lacrosse

Reply to "Georgetown Visitation Lacrosse- Recruiting Practices"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are lacrosse scholarships really that great? This whole system is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.[/quote]

PP&lt; it is never bright to call something &quot;stupid&quot; when you are completely clueless about the issue.

It is not about &quot;scholarships&quot; or money.  Most families who have kids who play lacrosse at a high level do not need scholarship money.  They can afford the top private schools and expensive club fees and college tuition.  Schools rarely pay anyone a full scholarship or even more than a few thousand, to play lacrosse in college.   Its about getting an &quot;leg up&quot; or an extra &quot;hook&quot; into a super competitive college.  There is really fierce competition to get into the top colleges these days and if you can find something that gets you noticed, offer something that a school really wants such as great lacrosse skills, you have a tremendously better chance of gaining admission.  The Ivies, Stanford, Duke, UVA, UNC, USC, the top SLACs, in fact, basically all of the most competitive and highly regarded colleges and universities have lacrosse teams and actively recruit for lacrosse.  This means that, if you have a smart kid who does really well in school and on tests, and PLAYS LACROSSE at a high-level, their odds of gaining admission soar, yes SOAR.  Kids from our area regularly get recruited to the colleges and universities I have named above to play lacrosse.  These are kids who can hack it academically too but it gives them a better shot than the rest of the upper middle class private school kids who are applying to the same colleges.  I get that many folks don't like or appreciate lacrosse but top colleges do and their alums do too and that means support, increased name recognition in certain circles, and more donations from happy alums.  That is what the whole system is about, well that and a love of lacrosse, which many of us have anyway.[/quote]
Do they soar, or do they SOAR? This seems like an important distinction. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics