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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reasons why VA and MD public schools for boys lax in the area aren't strong is a little different in MD than in VA.  In VA, the primary problem is that better lax players are really spread out geographically.  If you take a roster of VLC or Madlax, the kids will be from all over Fairfax, Loundon and PW (particularly for VLC), Arlington, and Alexandria.  So no specific school has that deep of a pool of serious players.  A school could theoretically overcome this if it created a strong feeder program, but this hasn't really happened in a completely robust way like you see for the [b]elite LI public schools[/b] (Ward Melville, [b]Chaminade,[/b] etc.).  And then some of the better players in NoVA also go to the traditional lax privates further weakening the pool for the VA public schools.

In MD, there is a concentrated group of kids that play lax in the Whitman, Churchill, and even BCC clusters.  So those schools have deep enough pools to be really deep and good.  But a high percentage of these kids go to Landon, Gonzaga, GP, Bullis, or St. John's rather than the public schools, so those public schools can't compete.  The reason for the high concentration of private school lax kids in MoCo is because lax is passed down through families a lot and it becomes self-perpetuating, a lot of the good MoCo lacrosse players are Catholic and were always going to go to a catholic school, and if you play on a MD club or Madlax you meet a lot of kids from the privates and make friends and so people sometimes move from public to private for small things like that.  [/quote]

Chaminade is an all male Catholic high school.[/quote]

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