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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has applied to Visitation have any thoughts on announcement of new coach?

I have heard good things about him. Legit lacrosse background, and my impression is the girls respond to his coaching. He is the dad of a junior player, so obviously not a long term solution.

He coached a lot of those kids in Youth league who are now on the Capital 25 Blue team-- #1 club rank in the Counrty.. He definitely helped develop those kids at an early age and they clearly those girls benefitted from his coaching. Give the guy a chance for goodness sake!!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has applied to Visitation have any thoughts on announcement of new coach?

I have heard good things about him. Legit lacrosse background, and my impression is the girls respond to his coaching. He is the dad of a junior player, so obviously not a long term solution.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the last few pages after not having been on here for a week or so and I am so sorry I did. Migraine the size of Montana. I actually came on to see what people thought about girls wearing helmets and I got caught up in this sh*tstorm.

I have had a number of conversations with experts on this. Former D1 players who now coach are pretty universally against helmets. They say it increases reckless play, leading with the head on dodges, aggressive defense through the stick, and erodes the rule-based safety (shooting space; checking rules, etc) that keep the game safe and playable.

That rings true to me. While I don't want to take away the option for a girl recovering from concussion or another injury where a helmet is required for protection, I would prefer that the rules maintain the norm of no helmets for girls and women's lacrosse.

I agree. Subjectively, I have noticed players with helmets do tend to be more reckless. I have noticed the leading with the head as well. I also think it is interesting to note that many FL girls, where it is mandatory, don't wear them for club.

They are also significantly more expensive than goggles, which puts others at a disadvantage financially.

The refs should better enforce the rules. The sentiment supporting helmets comes from parents whose kids are frequently hit in the head without any consequences to the offending players. I can’t blame them for feeling this way but it’s a result of poor officiating.

Do any moms who played the sport at a high level have their kids wear helmets? I think these moms understand the sport and my impression has been that the girls wearing helmets are from families without much knowledge about women's lacrosse.

No. But it’s not same game it was in the late 1900s

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the last few pages after not having been on here for a week or so and I am so sorry I did. Migraine the size of Montana. I actually came on to see what people thought about girls wearing helmets and I got caught up in this sh*tstorm.

I have had a number of conversations with experts on this. Former D1 players who now coach are pretty universally against helmets. They say it increases reckless play, leading with the head on dodges, aggressive defense through the stick, and erodes the rule-based safety (shooting space; checking rules, etc) that keep the game safe and playable.

That rings true to me. While I don't want to take away the option for a girl recovering from concussion or another injury where a helmet is required for protection, I would prefer that the rules maintain the norm of no helmets for girls and women's lacrosse.

I agree. Subjectively, I have noticed players with helmets do tend to be more reckless. I have noticed the leading with the head as well. I also think it is interesting to note that many FL girls, where it is mandatory, don't wear them for club.

They are also significantly more expensive than goggles, which puts others at a disadvantage financially.

The refs should better enforce the rules. The sentiment supporting helmets comes from parents whose kids are frequently hit in the head without any consequences to the offending players. I can’t blame them for feeling this way but it’s a result of poor officiating.

Do any moms who played the sport at a high level have their kids wear helmets? I think these moms understand the sport and my impression has been that the girls wearing helmets are from families without much knowledge about women's lacrosse.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has applied to Visitation have any thoughts on announcement of new coach?

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Anonymous wrote:Would be nice to move on from the MD/VA back and forth.

I agree. We need more Idaho lax talk.

Sadly, everything devolves into a we are better than you and there never seems to be interesting conversation. I liked the Data Guy stuff but then people start taking things so personally. Is it this bad on the other boards?

2028 thread has the special tendency to devolve to that nonsense, but there also a group that's serious about talking lacrosse, and even sharing helpful information. It's like two different conversations. We can go down the rabbit hole when the well-meaning folks get involved in responding to the personal stuff, at least half of which is just trolling.

So hang in there and engage on the content you are interested in.

13:30 here. You said it better than I did.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the last few pages after not having been on here for a week or so and I am so sorry I did. Migraine the size of Montana. I actually came on to see what people thought about girls wearing helmets and I got caught up in this sh*tstorm.

I have had a number of conversations with experts on this. Former D1 players who now coach are pretty universally against helmets. They say it increases reckless play, leading with the head on dodges, aggressive defense through the stick, and erodes the rule-based safety (shooting space; checking rules, etc) that keep the game safe and playable.

That rings true to me. While I don't want to take away the option for a girl recovering from concussion or another injury where a helmet is required for protection, I would prefer that the rules maintain the norm of no helmets for girls and women's lacrosse.

I agree. Subjectively, I have noticed players with helmets do tend to be more reckless. I have noticed the leading with the head as well. I also think it is interesting to note that many FL girls, where it is mandatory, don't wear them for club.

They are also significantly more expensive than goggles, which puts others at a disadvantage financially.

The refs should better enforce the rules. The sentiment supporting helmets comes from parents whose kids are frequently hit in the head without any consequences to the offending players. I can’t blame them for feeling this way but it’s a result of poor officiating.

Do any moms who played the sport at a high level have their kids wear helmets? I think these moms understand the sport and my impression has been that the girls wearing helmets are from families without much knowledge about women's lacrosse.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read the last few pages after not having been on here for a week or so and I am so sorry I did. Migraine the size of Montana. I actually came on to see what people thought about girls wearing helmets and I got caught up in this sh*tstorm.

I have had a number of conversations with experts on this. Former D1 players who now coach are pretty universally against helmets. They say it increases reckless play, leading with the head on dodges, aggressive defense through the stick, and erodes the rule-based safety (shooting space; checking rules, etc) that keep the game safe and playable.

That rings true to me. While I don't want to take away the option for a girl recovering from concussion or another injury where a helmet is required for protection, I would prefer that the rules maintain the norm of no helmets for girls and women's lacrosse.

I agree. Subjectively, I have noticed players with helmets do tend to be more reckless. I have noticed the leading with the head as well. I also think it is interesting to note that many FL girls, where it is mandatory, don't wear them for club.

They are also significantly more expensive than goggles, which puts others at a disadvantage financially.

The refs should better enforce the rules. The sentiment supporting helmets comes from parents whose kids are frequently hit in the head without any consequences to the offending players. I can’t blame them for feeling this way but it’s a result of poor officiating.