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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Questions for parents with lax players? One, does your child only play lax and is that the norm or do they play other sports ie: soccer, basketball, on the school teams?

Secondly, do the Ivy Leagues recruit players from this area for lax? How good do you have to be to play lax at the Ivies?[/quote]

1) You can play other sports till around 8th grade. You may make it or not because the other teams have layers who are dedicated to those sports. If you want to get recruited, you need to be on an outside club team and play in the summer at recruiting tournaments. This starts as early as the summer after 7th grade with the most important summers,the summer after 9th and 10th. The HS will not get you recruited. It is the club team that makes the difference.

2) Ivy leagues do recruit. You have to be good and also have decent grades and SAT scores. It is very competitive. There ae many good lacrosse players all over the US as you can see from the attached list of 2014 and 2013 commitments.

http://forums.insidelacrosse.com/showthread.php?226045-2014-Boys-Verbal-Commitments
http://forums.insidelacrosse.com/showthread.php?205996-2013-Boys-Verbal-Commitments[/quote]

I agree with 99% of the quoted post.  The reality is that the top players in top local HS programs do all play club.  Here's my 1% differing view -- the views of well-respected coaches in this area, such as the coaches at Prep, Landon, Gonzaga, Boys' Latin (Baltimore), Gilman (Baltimore) do still matter as well and they can help get an athlete on the radar (if, for example, there was an injury during the summer that precluded club play; they can also help get players invitation to the selective summer camps/recruiting events).  However, the center of gravity for recruiting is, no question, absolutely extremely weighted towards club play and recruiting camps, as the prior poster states.

To see who plays Ivy League lacrosse, another useful thing is to go to a specific Ivy's roster.  You will see some DC-based players, but also players from the other traditional lacrosse hotbeds (Baltimore, Long Island, Syracuse area, NE Boarding Schools) as well as from areas that didn't have lacrosse a generation or two ago (e.g., California, Tennessee, Minnesota, Texas, Florida).  From the IAC (the conference in which Landon, St. Albans, Prep, Bullis, St. Stephens St. Agnes, and Episcopal play), I would estimate anywhere from 6-10 players from the league, total, go Ivy each year; it is a combination of the best players who also have strong academic records.  [/quote]

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