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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools seem prevalent on these commitment lists.  Do they feed to the schools  through prior relationships or do the better players just gravitate to the private schools?[/quote]

I think it is both. Since the privates(at least here)  have the reputations of having better lacrosse programs, kids with that interest tend to be with coaches and/or teammates that are at area privates. Public School programs and schools outside of the Northeast  are getting better so there may be some changes coming down the road. [/quote]

There is some gravitation of private school laxers to the better private school programs.

But the real reason for the private school superiority over the publics and many privates is "who" plays.

If you were to take the top 10 athletes at any public school (speed, size, agility, etc., etc), how many of them are playing lacrosse? The answer is almost none of them. These programs have been a place second or third tier athletes have gone to get a varsity letter. And stick skills have isolated them from better athletes who might want to pick the game up in high school.

Now ask that question about Landon or Prep. How many of their best athletes play lacrosse? The answer is a lot of them.

GP caught Landon by steadily improving the quality of players it got from it's own applicant pool / student body. In year's past GP didn't have the FB QB or WR's or LBs playing lacrosse. Nor were there any basketball players. When that started to change in the mid-1990's, it all changed for GP.[/quote]

So does the school provide for exposure for their players to be recruited?  I thought that was done at the club level, in which case the public school players could still get noticed.[/quote]

Many off the privates have summer teams starting in ms that go to tournaments together in the summer. There is also training during the school year that privates have for  the lacrosse teams. Many of the HS coaches also provide support for recruiting.[/quote]

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