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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Can starting players on good B club teams play on top high school teams like Landon, Prep, Gonzaga, or do you have to be an A team member?[/quote]

YES. It depends on how athletic your son is.

Take middle school lax as a grain of salt. Some kids on the MS "A" lax team (take Mad Lax, Crabs, next Level, Club Blue) pan out to be solid players in HS, but some quite frankly hit a plateau. Some kids are clearly older than others in middle school and some have hit puberty and some kids by the time they are through their freshman year are through puberty.

Landon had two kids on their varsity this past Spring who had never even played lacrosse prior to their freshman year - if your son is an athlete, lacrosse is a pretty easy sport to pick up. Its not baseball or golf that require incredible hand eye coordination 
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This is an interesting question.  I played D1 baseball and there were 5 people in the general area where I grew up that went on to play D1 or to the minors the same year as me.  All of us were among the very best players in the area by the end of little league and my sense was that almost all other people on our college team had been very good players in little league as well.  My experience is obviously anecdotal and I've never looked to verify this beyond that, but my sense is there was a relatively high correlation in baseball between youth performance and high school/college performance.

But my sense is that football is not as much like that, in part, because a lot of people start playing football later and because size/athleticism is more crucial than in baseball (though baseball is changing in that respect).  So you couldn't pick out the eventual D1 players in football by watching 5th/6th graders play in the same way you can with little league (this was the pre-youth-travel era when most everyone still played little league).

My question is:  For people who've seen crops of players progress from the youth teams to college, is lax more like the baseball example or the football example?  So if I watch, say a Madlax 2024 or 2025 game (to pick a better club at random) are the studs there likely the D1 players?  Or is the correlation weak for those young of teams?

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