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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the fixation on St. Albans lacrosse players?  The big spring sport at St. Albans is not lacrosse;it's CREW. The team traditionally finishes among the top five high school eights in the USA. They were runner-up at  the scholastic nationals this year to an exceptionally talented Gonzaga team.  The second largest interest among the boys is BASEBALL.  Lacrosse seems to be the third or fourth choice by many of the boys for their spring sport.  Therefore, they don't have the depth that many of their opponents do. It is a credit to a small core of boys and their coaches that they have remained competitive in the best lacrosse league in the area. The boys tend to go to schools where they can contribute, not just put on gear and be a member of the fraternity.  [/quote]

True to some extent; however, such is the strength of IAC lacrosse that St. Albans currently has more lacrosse players playing Division I than baseball players (in other words, although baseball is traditionally better at St. Albans than lacrosse; in this AREA lacrosse is better in national terms than baseball, and that is reflected in the numbers of Division I lacrosse vs. baseball (still very good).

Off-hand, this past year St. Albans had lacrosse players at the follwing Division I schools (tons more at Division III schools):
Yale
Dartmouth
Princeton
Brown
Naval Academy
University of Virginia (2)

There are also a bunch of crew guys rowing but the Ivies and other traditional rowing powers are now mining Eastern Europe and New Zealand for rowers so that cuts into the the number of STA alums rowing at the college level.
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