Anonymous
10/29/2014 22:28
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:There are a few kids who are now freshman at Churchill who went to Mater dei, repeated and are now back in public school.
Bullis has has done the same thing with a kid who came in this year who should have gone in as a freshman.
What's your point?
Kids reclassifying for athletic purposes has been going on for years at area private schools.
Yes, schools like landon, prep, gonzaga, bullis and saint Stephens all have some kids who have reclassified at one point or another in elementary school or middle school. Get used to it too because if early recruiting continues to stick around, parents who have the resources to do so, will continue look for every single advantage they can get to help promote their son chase the D1 lacrosse dream!
Those in glass houses should not throw stones.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 22:13
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
There are a few kids who are now freshman at Churchill who went to Mater dei, repeated and are now back in public school.
Bullis has has done the same thing with a kid who came in this year who should have gone in as a freshman.
What's your point?
Kids reclassifying for athletic purposes has been going on for years at area private schools.
Yes, schools like landon, prep, gonzaga, bullis and saint Stephens all have some kids who have reclassified at one point or another in elementary school or middle school. Get used to it too because if early recruiting continues to stick around, parents who have the resources to do so, will continue look for every single advantage they can get to help promote their son chase the D1 lacrosse dream!
Bullis has has done the same thing with a kid who came in this year who should have gone in as a freshman.
What's your point?
Kids reclassifying for athletic purposes has been going on for years at area private schools.
Yes, schools like landon, prep, gonzaga, bullis and saint Stephens all have some kids who have reclassified at one point or another in elementary school or middle school. Get used to it too because if early recruiting continues to stick around, parents who have the resources to do so, will continue look for every single advantage they can get to help promote their son chase the D1 lacrosse dream!
Anonymous
10/29/2014 20:43
Subject: lax culture from an insider
The issue is parents being so obsessed with athletic accomplishments of their children.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 18:56
Subject: lax culture from an insider
The issue is not allowing 19 or 20-year-old boys to play varsity contact sports. The issue is allowing a small prepubescent boy to play varsity contact sports against essentially grown men, whether they are redshirted or not. There are plenty of fully mature and very large boys in high school and I think it is borderline abusive to put a small on a field with them in a contact sport.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 17:56
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:moms and dads,
Just to give you some perspective, in the state of Maryland, you can not turn 19 before September 1st of your senor year.
In otherwords, if your son turns 19 on September 1 or anytime thereafter - he is allowed to play in the state of Maryland. I have never even heard of a kid being 19 years old during his junior season.
I'm not sure what DC has adopted or VA private schools.
Reclassifying your kid doesnt always pay dividends.
Yes there are some kids who might be turning 19 before they graduate HS this Spring but I've watched lacrosse for a very long time. Some kids regardless of their age are just freakish athletes.
If it does not "pay dividends" why did 6 Landon lax recruits go into 8th grade instead of 9th. Why did churchills best player go to md and repeat 8th grade? Why do the majority of Gonzaga, prep, Landon lax players turn 19 before the Spring season of their senior year?
Anonymous
10/29/2014 17:41
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:lots of lies on this webiste. i just posted a second ago, you can't even turn 19 before September 1st of your senior year in the state of Maryland. This applies to both public and private schools.
You also have reading comprehension issues.
Thank God the high schools have a rule precluding those kids from playing as 20 year old Seniors.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 17:41
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Assuming it is true a kid got hurt? Asshole comments like that are just shameful. There are risks in contact sports and for kids competing with bigger age spreads. Idiot lacrosse parents like you don't get it, it does not strike you as unfair or unsafe at all to have 16 year old freshmen in the high school sports system? Those kids will be 19 year old Juniors. Thank God the high schools have a rule precluding those kids from playing as 20 year old Seniors.
You are just making stuff up now - 20 year old seniors?
I feel bad when any kid gets hurt, but you don't have to lie to make a point - the so-called "red shirt" kids are not demonstrably larger as seniors than the largest non-red shirt seniors. And there is not a single 20 year old senior playing at any school - so stop it.
You have reading comprehension issues.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 16:29
Subject: lax culture from an insider
You can't turn 19 before Sept 1st and play sports. You can attend school. There are kids who will play spring lacrosse as 19 year old juniors in my son's sophomore class. Some of his club teammates on a 2017 team who go to IAC schools are that old. I guess they won't be able to play as seniors as a consequence.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 16:21
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
lots of lies on this webiste. i just posted a second ago, you can't even turn 19 before September 1st of your senior year in the state of Maryland. This applies to both public and private schools.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 16:17
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:Assuming it is true a kid got hurt? Asshole comments like that are just shameful. There are risks in contact sports and for kids competing with bigger age spreads. Idiot lacrosse parents like you don't get it, it does not strike you as unfair or unsafe at all to have 16 year old freshmen in the high school sports system? Those kids will be 19 year old Juniors. Thank God the high schools have a rule precluding those kids from playing as 20 year old Seniors.
You are just making stuff up now - 20 year old seniors?
I feel bad when any kid gets hurt, but you don't have to lie to make a point - the so-called "red shirt" kids are not demonstrably larger as seniors than the largest non-red shirt seniors. And there is not a single 20 year old senior playing at any school - so stop it.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 16:00
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:That read a lot closer to denigrating a person and not a club, neither of which I am a real big fan of. And yes, let's be careful about living in glass houses. VLC has a couple of talented kids too in that grade but not a dozen or two. VLC had a great 2015 team, and after that was a pretty marginal 2016 team. The 2017 team has some committed kids, but after the couple top players they are to second tier D1 programs / schools or service academies which is a different thing. The local bragging thing between MadLax and VLC is pretty amusing to an outsider. Neither program has elite HS teams right now, and only MadLax is strong across the youth ages and there they have a lot of company among other strong youth programs. And BTW, there are more current D1 commits who are ex-MadLax and VLC players with Blackwolf, 3d and FCA now than there are MadLax and VLC current commits in 2016 and in 2017.
Now, don't you have some VLC team mom duties to get back to or is another chat room a callin'?
You Madlax people are weird.
But not surprising given the source.
http://deadspin.com/hey-ungrateful-quitter-emails-from-an-angry-lacrosse-660703941
Anonymous
10/29/2014 15:37
Subject: Re:lax culture from an insider
moms and dads,
Just to give you some perspective, in the state of Maryland, you can not turn 19 before September 1st of your senor year.
In otherwords, if your son turns 19 on September 1 or anytime thereafter - he is allowed to play in the state of Maryland. I have never even heard of a kid being 19 years old during his junior season.
I'm not sure what DC has adopted or VA private schools.
Reclassifying your kid doesnt always pay dividends.
Yes there are some kids who might be turning 19 before they graduate HS this Spring but I've watched lacrosse for a very long time. Some kids regardless of their age are just freakish athletes.
Just to give you some perspective, in the state of Maryland, you can not turn 19 before September 1st of your senor year.
In otherwords, if your son turns 19 on September 1 or anytime thereafter - he is allowed to play in the state of Maryland. I have never even heard of a kid being 19 years old during his junior season.
I'm not sure what DC has adopted or VA private schools.
Reclassifying your kid doesnt always pay dividends.
Yes there are some kids who might be turning 19 before they graduate HS this Spring but I've watched lacrosse for a very long time. Some kids regardless of their age are just freakish athletes.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 15:33
Subject: lax culture from an insider
NFHS, the governing body for HS sports, funded studies at SFIA (see SFIA.ORG for the injury studies reports). There is data showing lacrosse and hockey are the two highest sampled sports for greater competition injury as a multiplier above practice injury rates. This study was intended to show how much more unsafe competition versus practice is in sports, which is a valid research baseline. Hockey and lacrosse are also the only two sports where the leading rate of injury is head trauma. Both ice hockey and lacrosse have emerged on these two trends of data in the last 5 years.
So there is data suggesting the risks are rising in these two sports which are the poster child sports for holdback high schoolers.
So there is data suggesting the risks are rising in these two sports which are the poster child sports for holdback high schoolers.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 15:08
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Assuming it is true a kid got hurt? Asshole comments like that are just shameful. There are risks in contact sports and for kids competing with bigger age spreads. Idiot lacrosse parents like you don't get it, it does not strike you as unfair or unsafe at all to have 16 year old freshmen in the high school sports system? Those kids will be 19 year old Juniors. Thank God the high schools have a rule precluding those kids from playing as 20 year old Seniors.
Anonymous
10/29/2014 14:53
Subject: lax culture from an insider
Anonymous wrote:My son injured his back from a hit he took playing varsity last year as a 14 year old freshman. I saw the risks involved during the high school season when they played IAC or WCAC teams. That is the only data important to me. It is shameful to see 19 year old seniors on the field with natural 9th graders. It would make a lot of people unhappy, but they may need to mandate freshmen to play JV to avoid the risks since nothing else will be done about it.
Assuming what you say is true and also assuming that at some point before the injury you and/or your son was aware that he was going up against bigger boys, then you surely realize that there is another spin, i.e., that you assumed the risk? Some freshmen are more than ready to compete against bigger kids, others are not. Parents need to look out for their kids.