Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Malvern, EA, and Haverford would shit on the teams from the IAC / WCAC this year.
Philly overall has better lacrosse.
Tougher type of kid.
Ask someone from Philly where the best lacrosse in the country is - they'll be sure to let you know and they may not be wrong
I'm from Philly, now in DC with one in the IAC and one in the WCAC. Most years, I'd agree generally (though not as obnoxiously - I've been out of Philly too long I guess) that Philly metro has higher quality than the beltway - they tend to play more Canadian, hard hitting style than here, a lot of Philly CYO kids play football, hoops and lax and feed to the Inter-Ac or private Catholic league schools, and overall their top teams are usually better than here. This year, though, I can't say that's true, or it's a lot more mixed. Malvern is just really good as usual, Haverford (my AM and where a few friends' sons play now) isn't as strong as usual but still really good and EA is also looking really strong, but there are really only 3 good Inter-Ac teams this year overall and the rest are pretty average. LaSalle is always good, and Philly suburb publics are damned good, much better than any public in the beltway.
BUT I think this season, PVI, Bullis, Landon and GP on any given day can run with any of them, and definitely not routinely get blown out. I also think Zaga is a lot better than their record - they've played a brutal schedule. And StA is surprising - a great goalie will do that. Oddly, SJC isn't a power it seems. Interesting year across the mid atlantic.