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Anonymous wrote:Well I have too much of a life to count every athlete from every IAC, WCAC, MAC school and see where they play in college. Yes lax is well represented. But those other sports are repped as well. Anybody see Josh Hart kick butt for Villanova tonight in the final four? Not bad.

Villanova is not a college that Lax parents are aspiring to. Think Ivy League, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UVA.

Take a look at the college matriculation lists for places like Landon, Bullis, and SSSA. More often than not, when one of the "aspirational" schools is listed, it's a recruited athlete going there, and at least for the IAC schools, usually the sport is lacrosse.

So inaccurate.

Which part?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Well I have too much of a life to count every athlete from every IAC, WCAC, MAC school and see where they play in college. Yes lax is well represented. But those other sports are repped as well. Anybody see Josh Hart kick butt for Villanova tonight in the final four? Not bad.

Villanova is not a college that Lax parents are aspiring to. Think Ivy League, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UVA.

Take a look at the college matriculation lists for places like Landon, Bullis, and SSSA. More often than not, when one of the "aspirational" schools is listed, it's a recruited athlete going there, and at least for the IAC schools, usually the sport is lacrosse.

So inaccurate.

Lacrosse is a sport that is much less competitive to be recruited in than soccer, swimming, baseball, basketball, etc. It's a niche sport and one where there is a lot of marketing and PR that goes into it and in the DMV the prep schools do it well. If playing guitar got you into Harvard they'd be beating Strathmore's door in.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I have too much of a life to count every athlete from every IAC, WCAC, MAC school and see where they play in college. Yes lax is well represented. But those other sports are repped as well. Anybody see Josh Hart kick butt for Villanova tonight in the final four? Not bad.

Villanova is not a college that Lax parents are aspiring to. Think Ivy League, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UVA.

Take a look at the college matriculation lists for places like Landon, Bullis, and SSSA. More often than not, when one of the "aspirational" schools is listed, it's a recruited athlete going there, and at least for the IAC schools, usually the sport is lacrosse.

It's all about the Lax parents, no, you know, the kid.

Anonymous wrote:Well I have too much of a life to count every athlete from every IAC, WCAC, MAC school and see where they play in college. Yes lax is well represented. But those other sports are repped as well. Anybody see Josh Hart kick butt for Villanova tonight in the final four? Not bad.

Villanova is not a college that Lax parents are aspiring to. Think Ivy League, Duke, Johns Hopkins, UVA.

Well I have too much of a life to count every athlete from every IAC, WCAC, MAC school and see where they play in college. Yes lax is well represented. But those other sports are repped as well. Anybody see Josh Hart kick butt for Villanova tonight in the final four? Not bad.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure who all these parents are. I have a kid playing lacrosse at one of the above mentioned schools, and I have never come across anyone who is this obsessed with the game. Unless I know you and you are a closet nutcase. What is it about this sport that brings out the worst in parents? You never see this kind of discussion on other high school sports.

Because it is one few the few sports that kids around here can get recruited for really good schools that they otherwise could not get into.

Unlike soccer, basketball, tennis, crew, track, baseball?

Very few athletes from the IAC go on to play Division I soccer, tennis, or baseball -- those are highly competitive sports and this league area is not the national hotbed for them (and the best soccer players don't even play high school sports because the cartel soccer system bars them from playing for their school). For the schools that have rowing, yes, they row in college (although colleges are increasingly stocking their crews with giant foreign rowers from Europe, AUS, and NZ). A reasonable number of basketball kids do play Division I -- a function of how strong the local basketball scene is and how much IAC schools recruit. Proportionally and arithmetically there's no doubt that the number one Division I sport played in college by IAC grads is lacrosse. Take St. Albans, for example -- it's been one of the weaker teams in the league and it has lacrosse players on rosters this year at Yale, Dartmouth (multiple), Harvard, and Lehigh.

Anonymous wrote:Bullis and Saint Stephens are very competitive in the IAC.

If a Potomac wanted to make the switch, it might help them more attract more "sporty" kids.

Their new headmaster is very pro athletics.

The new headmaster is a helmet-head ex-football coach. He's dying to join the IAC, I'm sure for the precise reason that he thinks it will help Potomac land better maie athletes (his main focus). If it happens, it would be through a merger of the current MAC and the current IAC, and they would have two divisions, which is what the major independent school girls' league in this area does. For the girls, the last place team in top division is relegated to lower division, and winner of lower division goes up to the higher division. It is a on a per-sport basis. So schools that are not sports powerhouses overall but have some very strong teams (like Maret for baseball or Potomac for tennis, currently) would play "up" in that sport but not in the sports in which they were less strong.

Don't know if it will happen but that's the scenario.

Bullis and Saint Stephens are very competitive in the IAC.

If a Potomac wanted to make the switch, it might help them more attract more "sporty" kids.

Their new headmaster is very pro athletics.

In response to 17:07 above, just a quick note: Bullis, SSSAS and Episcopal compete in the IAC and are also 50 % girls. The girls compete in the ISL.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the IAC will allow a school to just join the IAC for one particular sport.

I know in the past, Woodberry Forest has expressed an interest in the IAC and the current Potomac Headmaster has openly said he would like to bring Potomac over to the IAC.

While Potomac might like to do this, they would quickly run into the same issues that Sidwell did, with an enrollment that is 50% women/girls, they simply wouldn't have the firepower to field competitive teams in the various sports when the competition has twice the talent pool to draw from. As it is, Potomac is somewhat competitive in the MAC. Moving to the IAC would be a disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure who all these parents are. I have a kid playing lacrosse at one of the above mentioned schools, and I have never come across anyone who is this obsessed with the game. Unless I know you and you are a closet nutcase. What is it about this sport that brings out the worst in parents? You never see this kind of discussion on other high school sports.

Because it is one few the few sports that kids around here can get recruited for really good schools that they otherwise could not get into.

Unlike soccer, basketball, tennis, crew, track, baseball?

So I guess I am in the minority, and I know the season is young, but by and large I think every school in the IAC looks good, particularly the bottom half seems to have improved.

Weather is too nice outside to be this fired up over HS lacrosse.