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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep. Start fostering that attitude early.[/quote]

Sensing sarcasm here, but there are kids who really love a sport and want to be good at it.  If you think your child might want to play in college and might have the aptitude for it, there is nothing wrong with putting them in a position to have choices.  Naturally 99% of the U13 kids at a Hopkins or Navy or UVA or Princeton camp are not going to be recruited as 9th graders and/or on any radar screens of the coaching staff -- they will just have a fun week being away from home, making new friends, and getting better at a sport they adore.

For the record, I probably agree with your general attitude -- I think that recruiting in 9th grade is absurd (neither logical, given physical development, nor good for the game in a larger sense) and I think that too many parents have ideas about their kid playing in college and the results (pressure on the kid, lack of perspective about the importance of sports v. school) are not good.  In the end, though, we do live in a lacrosse feeder area, and there is early recruiting, and there are some kids who show a high level of talent/aptitude early (will the curve flatten out by 12th grade? sometimes.  Which is why I think 9th grade recruiting is not a smart move for anyone.).  Given the reality of the lacrosse recruiting world, it's not a bad thing to at least try to make sure a broad range of parents has access to information.[/quote]

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