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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually for girls, lacrosse has leveled out and softball is back on the rise. My daughter loves both and it sucks they are the same season. The mental aspect of baseball/softball is intense but the flow of a lacrosse game is better. That said, after college what do lacrosse players do?  I would think a true athlete would prefer a MLB chance. [/quote]

I was a middle-of-the pack IAC lacrosse player and I'll admit the best athletes at my school played baseball.  But our team was/is one of the top programs in the country with many going on to play college even though few of them were a factor in other season's high school sports (e.g., football and basketball) compared to the baseball players. I also acknowledge that lacrosse, despite continued growth, is indeed niche and doesn't carry the degree of social currency outside our region (even among the privileged) as many lax players, coaches, and parents like to think. But it's a rare skill at a national level that can help significantly in college admissions.  Even as a middling player, I was recruited by several colleges my junior and senior year.  And it wasn't that I was a superstar as much as there simply weren't/aren't that many of us.  At the same time, the stronger athletes who played baseball were recruited less heavily because the baseball (and football and basketball) talent pool is so much larger.  The end game with lax is college; nobody I knew was ever seriously gunning for a professional career. [/quote]

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