LaxDad wrote:Multiple Mater Dei lacrosse players have recently gone to Landon, Gonzaga and SJC. The word is out, the Prep lacrosse program (if you can call it that) is in disarray. Case in point, Landon is playing in 2 NHSLS sessions and practicing 2x per week to prepare. Prep was not registered for NHSLS until some concerned alumni intervened, now Prep is going to 1 session (with 1 day of practice) minus some key players due to lack of planning.......a "JOKE"!
By not having to go to SJC.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:the problem with Prep is not necessarily the lacrosse program but the recent big push in leveraging its dorms to bring in recruited athletes.
GP has had boarding facilities for the past 50+ years, and has been used primarily as a means to bring full-pay APC families who can help supplement operating revenues.
In the past 5 years, Prep has aggressively ramped up recruiting marquee athletes from around the country for football, baseball, hoops and now lacrosse.
Local Catholic families have taken notice. Case and point, 3 graduating Mater Dei boys are starting at Landon next Fall... when they HELL as that ever happened.
Prep in my eyes has an identity crisis. Are you a boarding school or are you trying to serve the local Catholic families.
How are the local Catholics being served by going to Landon?
Anonymous wrote:the problem with Prep is not necessarily the lacrosse program but the recent big push in leveraging its dorms to bring in recruited athletes.
GP has had boarding facilities for the past 50+ years, and has been used primarily as a means to bring full-pay APC families who can help supplement operating revenues.
In the past 5 years, Prep has aggressively ramped up recruiting marquee athletes from around the country for football, baseball, hoops and now lacrosse.
Local Catholic families have taken notice. Case and point, 3 graduating Mater Dei boys are starting at Landon next Fall... when they HELL as that ever happened.
Prep in my eyes has an identity crisis. Are you a boarding school or are you trying to serve the local Catholic families.