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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a preferred walk on for college recruitment purposes?  Is that person a "recruit"?[/quote]

Technically they are a "recruit". But using the NCAA's definition of "recruit" includes just about anyone who has had any kind of contact with a school's athletic department or coaching staff. (Read the NCAA booklet so you can become familiar with the terminology and the rules. Do NOT listen to other parents. Some don't know the terminolgy or the rues and some are quite willing to allow the uninitiated to believe things that aren't strictly true.)

In reality, there isn't such a real thing as a "preferred walk-on. You won't find that written anywhere especially in the NCAA booklet on recruiting and scholarships.

A Walk-on is a Walk-on and all that really means is they are not being offered a scholarship or a fraction of a scholarship.

The 15 and a fraction total lacrosse scholarships are generally divied up in fractions, so there maybe 30 or more players that are getting about a half scholarship. A common practice is giving a 1/4 scholarship and then another 1/4th if you make satisfactory grades.

What it may give you tangibly is help in Admissions. The Lacrosse people submit a list of people they are trying to get. They have them listed according to priority. The scholarship players come first. The preferred walk-on are behind that group. There are always some walk-ons on every roster.

Paid official visits and scholarship money are how schools express concrete interest.

It's certainly a common pratice for a coach to encourage a perspective non-scholarship player to apply. They might say, "Come to our school. You are a player that can play for us we think." But if there's no scholarship involved, there's no commitment on the part of the coaching staff. They'd like 100 non-scholarship "recruits' to show up. Then they can try them out and keep the ones they like. The others get a practice t-shirt and some well wishes.
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