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[quote=Anonymous]I see both sides on this one.  Landon had excellent college results this year, with most of the admissions to the most selective colleges seemingly academically based.  Nevertheless, a large part of Landon's modern identity is based upon lacrosse success and I assume it is still a significant draw to a number of families.  Thus, they tried to do both things -- highlight impressive college admissions and  the continuing excellence of their lacrosse program (despite the inroads made by Georgetown Prep, and, more recently, schools like Gonzaga and Bullis).

I'm guessing, although I could be wrong, that the nine lacrosse DI signees are the only Division I signees this year.  If they had more, it would seem reasonable that they might say something like "the admissions results include 12 signees for Division I sports, 9 in lacrosse" or something like that.  Their basketball team has been strong in recent years but is not particularly dominant now, and the best players on their football team may well be the lacrosse players.  Hockey is good at Landon but still pretty low level in this area compared to NE, and nobody plays DI hockey these days without spending a year or two in an amateur league first.[/quote]

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