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Anonymous

03/05/2026 14:43 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

There's a current area commit who is going Ivy and started playing ~5 years ago. Granted to OP's point, they've played club since then, and are not public. But it's doable if you're committed. Being an athlete is step one.

Anonymous

03/05/2026 13:41 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

my niece is playing D1.
She (and her younger sister) started playing in late middle school - but are athletes and are the type of kids who are super focused. They are in the gym training "hitting the wall" - and finding a wall in all seasons.

Younger sister is committed to a D3 college. You can make it work - but it takes a lot of reps

Anonymous

03/05/2026 13:40 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:
No it is not impossible at all.

My kids is super coordinated. Very competitive spirit. Also super tiny when he started his growth spurt did not happen til 11th grade.

My son never picked up a lacrosse stick til 8th grade. Made varsity as a freshman. No club teams ever.

Public HS tryouts in MD. A strong team went to states many times etc..

Division 1 college.

My son hit the wall with that lax ball so often my poor neighbors must have had headaches from the sound of that lax ball hiting a piece of wood in my backyard.

So this is a unicorn situation. Made varsity as a freshman and started in 8th grade? Never heard of this happening at our high school, no matter how much wall ball you played. I have heard of athletic kids who played other hand-eye sports and ran super fast, changed sports to lacrosse in middle school, made the freshman or JV team as freshmen, and eventually made the varsity team and played in college ... and I thought they were unicorns. PP's kid is one in a million.

Anonymous

03/05/2026 13:38 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

It's that troll again, who keeps posting about how they didn't get sports opportunities when they were younger and now allege they can't play.

Anonymous

03/05/2026 13:35 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Join a team first, then walk ball daily, try to add clincs or private sessions when time allows. + Summer camps

Anonymous

12/05/2025 22:57 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And it speaks to how broken sports are here if lacrosse isn’t as competitive when it still requires you to play since 5

But it doesn't require it. People that say that are parents of non-athletes.

Did you have kids that play lacrosse? They can tell you it’s very competitive now

Anonymous

12/03/2025 21:36 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:And it speaks to how broken sports are here if lacrosse isn’t as competitive when it still requires you to play since 5

But it doesn't require it. People that say that are parents of non-athletes.

Anonymous

12/03/2025 20:20 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:All of these posts are ridiculous. Plenty of people who played club lacrosse from young age don’t even pass tryouts

It's a mentally ill troll posting everywhere about youth sports and how shut out it's become and why "the government" can't fund more youth teams.

Anonymous

12/03/2025 20:18 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

All of these posts are ridiculous. Plenty of people who played club lacrosse from young age don’t even pass tryouts

Anonymous

12/03/2025 12:57 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:My middle son never picked up a lacrosse stick until just weeks before tryouts his sophomore year. Made JV that year and played all season. The next year he played V (decent minutes) with a team of several D1 commits. His senior year, he was a starter. He plays D3 lacrosse now. He also never played club lacrosse, because he played another sport that didn't allow for it. My second son is following the same path, except he actually played JV lacrosse as a freshman, then V as a sophomore (some minutes) and junior (starter). He will play his senior year this spring.

Never picked up a lacrosse stick until weeks before tryouts and still made JV with playing time? Was this a no-cut sport or a rec team? This doesn't seem possible at any decent program.

My son is a blind quadriplegic and never picked up a stick until spring of his senior year, but still made varsity and is now a D1 starter. Just hit the wall more, dreams do come true.

Anonymous

12/03/2025 11:56 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No it is not impossible at all.

My kids is super coordinated. Very competitive spirit. Also super tiny when he started his growth spurt did not happen til 11th grade.

My son never picked up a lacrosse stick til 8th grade. Made varsity as a freshman. No club teams ever.

Public HS tryouts in MD. A strong team went to states many times etc..

Division 1 college.

My son hit the wall with that lax ball so often my poor neighbors must have had headaches from the sound of that lax ball hiting a piece of wood in my backyard.

Cool story but did not happen here in the DMV there has not been one local D1 commit in the last 10 years that did no club and came from a public HS. Also in those years many local D1 kids were recruited in 8th grade. There are not many d1 commits each year and it is a small world this story is highly suspect.

Wrong, there is at least one that I am aware of who is a freshman at Monmouth that played at Rockville HS and never played club...

Anonymous

12/02/2025 21:30 Subject: How do you deal with not getting to play lacrosse from a young age?

And it speaks to how broken sports are here if lacrosse isn’t as competitive when it still requires you to play since 5