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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not only do almost all come from private schools, almost all cone from a handful of schools.  STA for example has had just one high school all American in its history.  Landon won it's inference for 20 straight years. Then Prep became a power. Now Gonzaga is a power.  SSSA is even more dominant in girls LAX

Public high schools didn't even have teams until recently, but everything is changing and the future won't be lie the past. [/quote]

This post is almost as misguided as it is poorly written.  Lacrosse is more about being seen by college coaches at summer and fall recruiting events, where you play either with your team or as an individual.  Schools like Landon and Prep continue to have a lot of kids who commit to college lacrosse programs.  Part of it is where they go to school, but a bigger reason is they have good players who are seen and consequently recruited by college coaches.

More and more public school kids are going D1, D2 and D3.  The talent pool is bigger in Northern Virginia vis a vis Montgomery County, but the trend continues.  You also see more and more kids being recruited from Florida, California, Texas, Colorado, etc.

So your post is woefully ignorant.  Among privates, kids are committing to college lacrosse programs from a wide range of private schools in this area.  Further, there are a ton of public school kids who have committed as well to college lacrosse programs
Stick to writing about something you know.[/quote]

You need to do a little more research. Very few if any public school's in MoCo have D1 recruits. Churchill has 1. Landon has 16. The one D1 recruit has everything to do with the club that player played for and almost nothing to do with the public team.

Yes maybe in a 5 -10 years more public schools will have D1 recruits as more players start playing on good club teams that attend the high profile recruiting events. That is where the recruiting is happening, not at the HS games.[/quote]

And you need lessons in reading comprehension.  I never said a lot of Montgomery County schools have kids who have gone D1.  I rebutted the PP's assertion that "almost all come from private schools, almost all cone [sic] from a handful of schools".  You also make the point that I ALREADY MADE - that it is more about the club you play for than the school you attend.

I never said public schools in Montgomery County have tons of D1 recruits.  I will note, however, that your post is myopic.  There have been a number of kids over the past few years that have attended schools like Wootton, etc. that have gone D1.  But as I already note, public school lacrosse in Montgomery County is nowhere near as big as private school lacrosse in this are (or public school lacrosse in NoVA).[/quote]

Please, PP, do tell us which NOVA public schools are hotbeds of lax?  And, while you are at it, which NOVA privates, besides SSSA  are laX D1 recruiting hotbeds? I  am unaware of any great VA lax teams beyond SSSA, and there its te girls rather than the boys, correct?

By the way, I am poster from above re Vail.  My son did not play on the Next Level U15 team. There were other area teams out there.  I think I now know who you are though.  CM?

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Good Lord.  Learn how to read.  I never said public NOVA schools are "hotbeds" of lax.  Some idiot said that nearly all the college lacrosse recruits in this area come from private schools, and among that group, most come from a "handful".  That is not true.  Got it?  Hotbeds refer to an area (e.g. Long Island, Baltimore, etc.), not a set of schools.  There are lots of public and private schools all over this region sending kids to college programs.

Your other statements show that you have know nothing about lacrosse in this area.  PVI, for example, has 11 kids in their senior class who will be playing college lacrosse next year.  They have two sophomore who will be playing at UNC and UVA.  As far as St. Stephen's, they have five kids in their senior class playing college lacrosse next year, and two kids in their junior class will be going to UNC and Cornell.

No Northern Virginia team can rivals those numbers, but you have schools like Langley that have a defenseman going to Bucknell, and Stone Bridge has Maltz, who is as a good of a recruit as anyone in the country.

As for Vail, it is beautiful and a great family vacation, but a crappy tournament.  I have no idea what CM refers to, so you have no idea who I am.[/quote]

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