Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Briar Woods would get their ass kicked if they played any top private this year.

I don’t even think they could compete with St Albans or Bishop O’Connell.

The gap between public vs private’s is too big.

LOL. Would have been great if they did schedule some private schools. Briar has multiple commits on their team this year from D1 - D3, some kids who haven't committed yet or don't plan to but could. Three kids who played on the DC Under Armour team. Of all the years they could and should have played privates, it was this one.

The gap isn't as big as you would like to believe. They'd give STAB and O'Connell a run easily.

Until they actually PLAY some good private school teams this is all just in your dreams.

Anonymous wrote:Briar Woods would get their ass kicked if they played any top private this year.

I don’t even think they could compete with St Albans or Bishop O’Connell.

The gap between public vs private’s is too big.

LOL. Would have been great if they did schedule some private schools. Briar has multiple commits on their team this year from D1 - D3, some kids who haven't committed yet or don't plan to but could. Three kids who played on the DC Under Armour team. Of all the years they could and should have played privates, it was this one.

The gap isn't as big as you would like to believe. They'd give STAB and O'Connell a run easily.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. As far as OP's question, part of the reason may be that the privates around here recruit the best kids from publics. That's how our DS ended up at private as did several girl lax players he knows.

So how did that actually work? Your DS was on a club team and the private school coach saw him play?

Yes. That is how it works although I've heard of people approaching coaches as well but most coaches have certain positions they're recruiting for based on each year's graduating class and gaps that will result.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Briar Woods would get their ass kicked if they played any top private this year.

I don’t even think they could compete with St Albans or Bishop O’Connell.

The gap between public vs private’s is too big.

You can play the hypothetical game all you want. BW and SJC both played Dominion and the score was 18-8 and 14-7. SJC defeated O'connell and lost to GTP and Bullis by 4. This year's BW team is right about the same level as SJC or PVI and better than STA or O'Connel. The best a public can achieve is about top 5. It is not like these kids do not play v. each other all summer, at UA games, prospect days, tournaments. The kids know. I bet you just feel bad that you spent 45K and pushed your finances just so your kid can watch top HS teams from the bench.

O'Connell does not cost anywhere near $45K. And, no one goes to STA for lacrosse. They go to try to line up academics to get into a top college. The publics have no ability to compete with a private school like STA that has had a program for decades, where kids in the lower school play against other private lower schools.

I don’t think Briar Wood could run with PVI.

Why is BW ducking the private’s?

At least Oakton and Robinson aren’t afraid to come across the River.

Anonymous wrote:PP here. As far as OP's question, part of the reason may be that the privates around here recruit the best kids from publics. That's how our DS ended up at private as did several girl lax players he knows.

So how did that actually work? Your DS was on a club team and the private school coach saw him play?

Anonymous wrote:Briar Woods would get their ass kicked if they played any top private this year.

I don’t even think they could compete with St Albans or Bishop O’Connell.

The gap between public vs private’s is too big.

You can play the hypothetical game all you want. BW and SJC both played Dominion and the score was 18-8 and 14-7. SJC defeated O'connell and lost to GTP and Bullis by 4. This year's BW team is right about the same level as SJC or PVI and better than STA or O'Connel. The best a public can achieve is about top 5. It is not like these kids do not play v. each other all summer, at UA games, prospect days, tournaments. The kids know. I bet you just feel bad that you spent 45K and pushed your finances just so your kid can watch top HS teams from the bench.

PP here. As far as OP's question, part of the reason may be that the privates around here recruit the best kids from publics. That's how our DS ended up at private as did several girl lax players he knows. Historically lax has been huge up north for much longer than down here. It took awhile to expand beyond Maryland and has but now Colorado, Dallas, CA, FL and OR/WA and spots in the midwest are starting to make in-roads in East Coast dominance of lax.

Because they start playing when they are 4. We push soccer here.
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I think the poster below you has the best possible explanation - in our area lax isn't taught the right way at the rec/little kid level. They need to follow the USLacrosse model which is all about small sided play with as many ball touches per player as possible. If someone started a program teaching it that way I think we would see a big difference around here.

Eh plenty of rec programs around here have "little lax" for 5 year olds.

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse is popular around here for mostly kids who can't play other sports.

Cut from baseball, go to lacrosse, cut from basketball go to lacrosse, cut from soccer, go to lacrosse, sure there are some good players, actually really good ones but the majority of them are just kids lining the pockets of the clubs.

Dumbest thing I'll read today. In my son's case, he switched from baseball to lacrosse as a spring sport because baseball bored him to tears. And it bored his father to tears as well. Seriously, have you ever watched 9-year-olds play kid pitch?

Briar Woods would get their ass kicked if they played any top private this year.

I don’t even think they could compete with St Albans or Bishop O’Connell.

The gap between public vs private’s is too big.

Anonymous wrote:Lacrosse is popular around here for mostly kids who can't play other sports.

Cut from baseball, go to lacrosse, cut from basketball go to lacrosse, cut from soccer, go to lacrosse, sure there are some good players, actually really good ones but the majority of them are just kids lining the pockets of the clubs.

So not true. Many lacrosse kids are multi-sport athletes and eventually have to pick one given the crazy specialization that occurs around here. There are numerous soccer, hockey, football players on our HS lax team and DS's club team. DS is quite good at basketball but preferred lax and will play D1. Never seen a baseball player come over to lax - the pace is 180 degrees different. I'd be curious to see if baseball players could do well with lax. We have seen lax players go off to play tennis when they couldn't keep up with lax.

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest WP HS ranking two public schools in the top 5. Are you claiming this is fake news?

WaPo rankings are a joke, and so are their All Met selections. They might have the #1 correct, but after that they just write down what some dude said when they called him about what team he thought was good. A total joke, and has been for years.

Lacrosse is popular around here for mostly kids who can't play other sports.

Cut from baseball, go to lacrosse, cut from basketball go to lacrosse, cut from soccer, go to lacrosse, sure there are some good players, actually really good ones but the majority of them are just kids lining the pockets of the clubs.

I can't speak for the MD public schools, but in VA many of the public schools are small. In Loudoun County the high schools may have 1400-1700 students, so it becomes a numbers game. Just not enough kids playing. Add to the equation that soccer is also a Spring sport and the group of potential players gets even smaller. At least on the girls side many VA public schools struggle to field JV teams let alone competitive varsity teams. Individually you will find players who are very strong with solid D1 offers. However, collectively as a team the players are simply divided among too many public schools to put a consistent product on the field year-in and year-out. Private schools are not limited by school boundaries and can basically recruit from the entire area; thus, can put a more competitive and consistent product on the field. I'm not positive about this, but I believe the public schools in VA are limited by the VHSL in terms of how many off-season practices or workouts they can hold. I don't think the private schools have these same limitations.