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I think you misinterpret the OP's intention. Their intention is simply to round out a resume nothing more. In order to round out the resume HS sports does look better than club sports.

Why do you say this? Not clear to me why colleges would see a difference. Also, for soccer at least, virtually all kids playing for their HS teams will also be playing club soccer.

Anonymous wrote:both are the least diverse sports but that is changing big time and it will be fun to watch these entitled kids get their ... kicked soon enough

the boyz in the hood now carry lacrosse sticks....

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I think you misinterpret the OP's intention. Their intention is simply to round out a resume nothing more. In order to round out the resume HS sports does look better than club sports.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if he only played three years of soccer before high school I am skeptical that he could play in college unless he's a true athletic standout. It's easier if he is a goalkeeper, because there are fewer of those available, but if he's in high school already and he hasn't had coaches talk to him about playing in college, I think it's not so likely that he'd find a good college with a good soccer team. He shouldn't pick a sport because of college. He should pick the one he likes to play more.

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9-12 years old are actually the critical development years for ball skill in soccer. The footwork/skill is meticulous and a player will just never makeup ground if they start in middle school or later.

Lacrosse is a sport where they convert HS football players into spectacular lacrosse players. It is quite possible for a good athlete to pick it up later.

Really? What are you basing these statements on when you have club lacrosse players that commit to colleges as early as 8th grade?

Pp has no clue.

A good athlete is capable of picking up lacrosse in high school and be competitive. Soccer? Not so much.

It doesn't mean lacrosse is easier but it does mean that using your hands is easier to learn later than it is to learn using ones feet.

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I did not think that would be so controversial. It is known that soccer foot-skill is incredibly hard to learn after the brain develops/sets. A player cannot do the things with the ball at his feet at a high rate of speed---or even to use both feet equally (critically important) if they don't start with a ball to middle school. Every world class player out there grew up as a child with a ball at his feet. Yes--you can get a kid to kick and run and be physical but that won't go far at all.

Again, you have no clue.

Oh please, get over yourself. A athletic Freshman could pick up lacrosse and dedicate some serious training over two years and be a very capable and competitive player by their Junior and senior years with little or not lacrosse experience. That same athletic with the same two years of dedication to soccer would never catch up to their high school peers in soccer. The footwork is just to daunting.

Any kid who has played some baseball, tennis, basketball and some hockey have many of the perquisite skills to learn lacrosse quickly. The fact that the sport can be learned relatively quickly is a reason for its growing popularity.

But like chess, lacrosse is easy to learn, difficult to master.

Agreed. Just like soccer.

I agree, the level of play at public schools is so low he could play, not they it will impress a college. Stick with club soccer, he will never make a club lacrosse team.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if he only played three years of soccer before high school I am skeptical that he could play in college unless he's a true athletic standout. It's easier if he is a goalkeeper, because there are fewer of those available, but if he's in high school already and he hasn't had coaches talk to him about playing in college, I think it's not so likely that he'd find a good college with a good soccer team. He shouldn't pick a sport because of college. He should pick the one he likes to play more.

+100

9-12 years old are actually the critical development years for ball skill in soccer. The footwork/skill is meticulous and a player will just never makeup ground if they start in middle school or later.

Lacrosse is a sport where they convert HS football players into spectacular lacrosse players. It is quite possible for a good athlete to pick it up later.

Really? What are you basing these statements on when you have club lacrosse players that commit to colleges as early as 8th grade?

Pp has no clue.

A good athlete is capable of picking up lacrosse in high school and be competitive. Soccer? Not so much.

It doesn't mean lacrosse is easier but it does mean that using your hands is easier to learn later than it is to learn using ones feet.

+100

I did not think that would be so controversial. It is known that soccer foot-skill is incredibly hard to learn after the brain develops/sets. A player cannot do the things with the ball at his feet at a high rate of speed---or even to use both feet equally (critically important) if they don't start with a ball to middle school. Every world class player out there grew up as a child with a ball at his feet. Yes--you can get a kid to kick and run and be physical but that won't go far at all.

Again, you have no clue.

Oh please, get over yourself. A athletic Freshman could pick up lacrosse and dedicate some serious training over two years and be a very capable and competitive player by their Junior and senior years with little or not lacrosse experience. That same athletic with the same two years of dedication to soccer would never catch up to their high school peers in soccer. The footwork is just to daunting.

Any kid who has played some baseball, tennis, basketball and some hockey have many of the perquisite skills to learn lacrosse quickly. The fact that the sport can be learned relatively quickly is a reason for its growing popularity.

But like chess, lacrosse is easy to learn, difficult to master.

Agreed. Just like soccer.