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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have friends that travelled several hours to play for M&D.  Their daughter will be playing this weekend at Stony Brook. The mom said they lived in their car - homework and dinner  during the week- but that it was totally worth it.  She also said the other families were supportive and they're still friends with most of the team. Yellow Jackets and M&D are the best Clubs in the country so I'm not surprised that people are willing to travel.for top level training. [/quote]

That’s great! [b]Nice that it (clearly) worked out[/b]. I’d place skywalkers right there in the mix with YJ and M&D. I guess it’s really no different than any travel team if you take practice out of it! Maybe we could make this work...would have to get my kid there and see if she makes the cut first. [/quote]

Really?  Did it?  I would not want to put all that time and money into my DD playing lacrosse just to have her end up at a school like StonyBrook.  Its a really low rated school.  If her DD was playing at Princeton, UPenn, any Ivy really, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Duke, Georgetown, or Boston College, sure those schools are worth all that time money and commitment to a sport if it gets your kid there for college but... Stonybrook?  Um, no.  The entire point, for most people, is to leverage the sport to get your kid into a great college.  Lacrosse isnt football or basketball.  The end result is not a lucrative career.  There is no such thing for girls in lacrosse.  Even Taylor Cummings is having to hustle her tail off to make a career and she is the best women's lax player ever (3x Tewaaraton winner).  So getting your kid into StonyBrook, even if its lax team was ranked #1 in the country, is not, it "working out."[/quote]

Wow!  Way to go off the rails.  "Their daughter will be playing this weekend at Stony Brook" means her team is in the Final Four of the Women's Lacrosse National Championship, which is being played in  . . . wait for it . . . Stony Brook.  So, yes, it did kind of work out for her since all 4 schools are pretty good academically.  Now apologize for being hasty.[/quote]

Really???  You think all 4 of those schools are "pretty good academically"?  I totally disagree.  Only BC is a good school among those 4.[/quote]

You look down on UMD and UNC? By any reasonable measure they are pretty good academically. (Nothing against JMU--I just don't know it). [/quote]

Not really, they are both just mediocre state schools although UNC is slightly better. And JMU is a step down from them both. [/quote]

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